<p>My ipod started getting strange about a week after the warrently expired, but I was able to reset it and get it to work for a couple more months. Finally I spent like 70 dollars to get the battery changed.... it was fine for about three weeks but now it's completely dead and I have to get a new one. </p>
<p>The annoying part was I didn't want one in the first place. It was a present, but now I'm really used to having it, so I can't even survive a week without it. And they're expensive!</p>
<p>sorry... lol, this was my rant for the week.</p>
<p>ipods suck in the first place. they aren't drag and drop like any usb device should be. they force you to use Itunes (a pos program). they have little hard drives in them that break really easily. i could go on...</p>
<p>iPods are terrible. But they're cute, and everyone knows cute sells. I've never met a person with an iPod who hadn't experienced problems (people who've had the iPod for over 1 year). I agree with aarosurf that your best bet is a multimedia player that works like a flash drive.</p>
<p>I kind of liked those spiffy ipod commercials, but I never specifically asked for an Ipod. Still, I received one as a Xmas gift. I'm in TVA's situation...I can't function without it now.</p>
<p>Do you have an Apple Ipod store near you? I thought mine was dead this week ( tried everything) and took it there to have the technician look at it. He had it ten minutes and it was up and running - and to think I was ready to throw it ! Before you do anything drastic get it checked by a pro. ( mine was out of warranty , too)</p>
<p>My mini died about a month ago, and my backup (my CD player) quit not long after. Man, have I been spoiled all this time by it.</p>
<p>I've gotten to the point where I get so sick of changing stations trying to find a good song on my car radio that I just drive in silence.</p>
<p>I'm picking up a new one once my textbook stipend comes in. If I'm going to be walking halfway across (Maryland's huge) campus at 7:30 in the morning to get to an engineering lecture three days a week...I'm gonna need my music.</p>
<p>Personally I've never really seen the need for one for me personally. I'm a musician, and I love my music, but I can't listen to music 24 hours a day. I'm also studying computers and work at a computer over the summer, so I can just get my fill whenever I'm at my computer. I guess I would want one over for a plane trip or maybe the car, but in the car I can rely on my trusty ol tape deck. That's right, cassette tape deck. Blasting nothing but the best in Earth, Wind, and Fire, Prince, and any artist that came out before 1990 that I have on cassette.</p>
<p>I've had a video ipod since April. I wish I would've gotten a nano instead. I really only bought the video one so I could watch Lost, but that's over now. I want to sell it on eBay, but my mom said I should give it to my sister, which I don't want to do.</p>
<p>^haha. glad you're not my brother. i have an ipod and the worst its done is that it wouldn't get out of "disk mode" for like 2 days. i have no idea how/if i activated it, but it went away. i don't expect it to last that long, but i didn't pay for it so whatever.</p>
<p>my creative nomad zen jukebox x-tra is holding out pretty well after several years.</p>
<p>and when the battery wouldn't charge up anymore (because i left it discharged for so long that the li-ion protection circuitry wouldn't let me recharge), i just hooked it up to a 6V DC-DC power supply to kick-start it.</p>
<p>My first iPod died within the first year (it went into Disk Mode and never went back to normal) and I was able to send it in and get a new one. The same thing happened to the new one a few months later, and by that time the warranty had run out.</p>
<p>It has been sitting in my drawer for a year now. I stole my sister's CD player because I can't afford to shell out $300 for a new one that will just break again.</p>
<p>I heard that iPod technology isn't meant (or can't) last much longer than a year, and that an iPod is meant to be temporary. Is that true?</p>
<p>Ipod sucks... my first Ipod stopped working and I had it replaced through the warranty. The second one worked for like 6 months and then it got ****ed up too. I took it to the local apple place and they said they were gonna chekc it and see what the problem was...that was 2 months ago...they haven't called back, and each time I call they insist it'll be ready soon and that they'll call me</p>
<p>I hate Ipods they are overated little thingy mp3 players that are overpriced and still lack many tech that other MP3 (creative, Sony, Samsung) already have in their MP3</p>
<p>I've never actually had a problem with mine, and I've had it for over a year and a half now, I think. The battery doesn't last quite as long as it did when it was new out of the box but that always happens with rechargable batteries, happens with my laptop too. I guess that makes me the minority.</p>
<p>Well, BlahDeBlah, you probably take good care of your iPod. Most adolescent electronics-owners are a little less responsible than they should be--dropping the iPod, putting corrupted downloaded files onto it, etc. That might explain the complaints.
But my mom also had issues with her iPod mini. She had to reinstall Itunes the other day because there was a new version out or something. The reinstalling process ended up deleting all her songs. Thankfully "all her songs" is about 15 tracks ripped off of her CD collection...</p>