Do you have problems with the new ipod?

moliu · May 30, 2003 5:00AM

I've been visiting the support forum at apple.com recently. To my astonish, there's a large number of people reporting problems with their new ipod. I understand that the forum at apple is mainly for people who have problems so it would not be a realistic account of the problems. I just want to know how common are these problems, and if they affect everyone or not.

There are a few problems that I have found.

1) Clicking sound between songs

and

2) songs skipping midway through.

I'm asking this because I'm thinking of getting an ipod for my brother as a present. I have an old-touchwheel ipod and haven't had any problem. I'm just wondering if I should get him a new ipod or an old ipod.

willoughby · May 30, 2003 7:11AM

I have been experiencing both of the problems you mentioned.

The clicking sound does not bother me at all, in fact I find it hardly noticeable....but maybe thats just me.

However, the song skipping midway through is annoying. It happens to the same exact songs everytime, at the same point in the song. Ironically it only happens to songs that I didn't encode myself. Songs that I've had for a long time that I should probably just delete cause I didn't get them legally

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All of my legally encoded/downloaded songs work just fine.

bancho · May 30, 2003 10:45AM

I have yet to experience these problems. I use my iPod (new 30GB) every day and am completely digging it.

moliu · May 30, 2003 11:24AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bancho

I have yet to experience these problems. I use my iPod (new 30GB) every day and am completely digging it.

I'm just wondering, so these problems does not happen to everyone? I thought the clicking affects everyone... I'm not sure about the skipping.

aquatic · May 30, 2003 12:04PM

Hey bro, could you spare an iPod for me too?

I think maybe you are just thinking about the pause between songs, which I don't know why they haven't fixed it yet even for old iPods since the thing has a whopping 32 megs of RAM (IIRC). Anyway a lot of RAM. The new iPod is better but if you don't want to spend so much the old iPod still kicks booty. Either way your bro is going to be feeling

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murbot · May 30, 2003 1:38PM

iPod discussions are best suited to the Digital Hub. Moving now...

thegelding · May 30, 2003 1:47PM

if i listen closely i can hear a single click between songs...doesn't bother me any though as i use my iPod while jogging or at the gym...i would like to see a version 2.1 release of the iPod software to address the intermitting freezing problem...i had that happen when i first got my iPod...i have found that if i reset my iPod after charging but before using it, that the freezing doesn't happen...but it would be nice if the software either reset the iPod automatically or fixed this issue...other than that i love my iPod (though the battery could last longer...)

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no skipping for me so far

aquatic · May 30, 2003 8:32PM

Freezing? Weird. Perhaps that's what happened to my friend. He just got a 15 and it froze today displaying Do Not Disconnect even when disconnected and reset. He called Apple and he's going to send it in. Hmm.

bperkins · May 30, 2003 8:58PM

I did have a problem with the noise between tracks, and having to reset it every now and then.

My major problem was that the top acrylic casing was seperating from the SS backing. Almost looked as if it popped out. I was unable to push it back without damaging it so I sent it back to Apple, and they replaced it. Got the new yesterday, and so far so good. Knock on wood.

johnhenry · May 30, 2003 9:00PM

Yep, for $500 there should be NO click and NO skipping

I have had both of these occur...it's B.S.

Nice product but this crap shouldn't occur at these prices...

luca · May 30, 2003 9:45PM

Mine skips songs occasionally. Really horrible, I hate it when it does that! If I try to use the scrub-wheel to go past the part where the song ends, the iPod resets. One time when that happened, it gave me the picture of a battery with an exclamation point. After getting it working again, my clock had been reset

This is the second major problem that affects the usability of my Apple product in about seven months. My iBook also has a slow CD burning speed which Apple has chosen to ignore and not recognize as a problem.

barto · May 30, 2003 10:17PM

1) My first iPod died after 6 days. I got a replacement 3 days after it died. The hard drive had failed, and the battery meter was consistantly inaccurate before the HDD failed.

2) My current iPod has no problems with the HDD or the battery meter. I've had it for 2 weeks.

3) The clicking is there on every iPod. I don't really care about it, it's not really bad.

4) The ONLY problem I have is that the buttons on the iPod are sometimes unresponsive for a few seconds. It's really annoying. Also, sometimes I press "menu", and the screen changes... to the same screen as before.

Barto

foad · May 31, 2003 12:28AM

I haven't had any problems with my new iPod. I use it for hours everyday at work.

I had the know battery issues with my old 5 and 10 gig iPods but after the battery update that I did on the 10 gb it worked flawelessly.

denallyiaa · March 25, 2008 2:17AM

I bought iPod touch with apple store coupon just 2 weeks ago. And I haven't had any problems with my iPod touch.

bancho · March 25, 2008 10:42AM

Holy thread necromancy Batman!

tonton · March 27, 2008 2:06AM

This is a new spam technique. Signature spamming. Audio should come in and ban the spammer again.

Do you have problems with the new ipod?

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