iPod noob, can I check a couple of things

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TheBigCheese

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Hi guys...wow, this is a new bit of the forum, never been in here before lol.

I've bought myself a Cambridge Audio One, which is a very nice bit of kit and comes with an iPod dock.

I haven't bothered with it up till now as I've used a pendrive but it is limited to taking 8GB so I am mulling the possibility of getting a 120GB iPod Classic and bunging my whole music collection on there, but I have a couple of questions before buying...

The iPod would be sat at home on the dock using the speakers, but when I go into the office I will want to take it with me...does it have a standard 3.5mm connector on it so I could plug any headphones into it? Specifically I would be wanting to use Sennheiser 595s with it, would an iPod be able to drive big headphones?

If it can't, would I be able to take the iPod and plug it into the office computer by USB and listen to the music over the built in soundcard on the PC?

Would both machines need iTunes on them?

I did hear from someone that an iPod can only be registered with one PC and if you plugged it into another one (with iTunes on), it would wipe it to prevent copyright infringement...can this be correct? And would that be the case with music ripped from CDs?

What is the audio quality of them like? I don't want to be plugging it into my (expensive for me) kit to find the sound is a bit duff.

Finally are they reliable machines? Will I still be using it in three years time and it still have a decent battery life?


Many thanks in advance for any replies, it would be much appreciated! :D
 
iPods do use the standard audio jack so that would be the easiest way to listen to your music when your on the go. Shouldn't be any problems with using those headphones if they use the standard 3.5mm jack. Though I will let someone else confirm this.

As far as iTunes is concerned. Yeah, you can have your music authorized to be on up to 5 different computers. But is true that you can't transfer your music straight from your iPod to PC using iTunes. There is software out there though that allows you to do that. I have personally used iPodUtil but there are plenty out there. And once your music is in iTunes on your PC you have to authorize it over the account which your music is tied to. So you would require an internet connection to do that.

I think the quality of iPods is by far the best of any media player on the market. I find them extremely easy to use and the quality of sound is great for such a device (in my opinion).

They are fairly reliable and battery life shouldn't be a problem. Though one thing to note is that the flash memory based iPods such as the iPod Touch and Nano would be better than the hard drive in the larger 120gb Classic models in terms of durability and reliability. But as along as you take care of it you shouldn't have any problems.

Hope that helps and on another note :D first post on Macbook. :p
 
Many thanks for your reply that's very helpful!

So...if I understand it correctly...iTunes allows you to upload your music to an iPod (you can't drag and drop though), but you can't unload music from an iPod to a PC...that's where iPodutil comes in.

Sounds good...one thing I forgot to ask though regarding the reliability...it will be switched on for 7-8 hours a day, generally playing all the time, of course having a hard drive in it, are they still reliable for years (barring any knocks of course).

I am thinking towards the iPod Classic, rather than the touch due to the large storage size compared to the cost.
 
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