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Hi guys, new to the world of ipod touch, wife bought me one....

Anyhow, just went to the Apple site to get Itunes as I beleive it is needed to activate the ipod? and see its the only legit way to get files on it...

My question is, is the above correct and why do you have to pay for a minimum of one years subs? I thought you were charged according to what you downloaded from the store???

What am i missing here /Noobie

/EDIT, seams the link i thought was for Itunes is for something else? found another link on the site to download :confused:
 
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Well I got it downloaded and installed and have to say, Itunes is the Most annoying peice of rubbish ever, It auto scanns ALL drives and adds what it finds, I cant find any way to stop it searching and adding my files...

Why cant i simply tell it to monitor a specific folder and ignore the rest????

Its so bad im considering returning the touch, cant be bothered with the hasstle, I had to create my own playlists to add only the songs i want rather than have to dig through pages of tracks!!! dumb software.
 
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Cheers for the info guys, still not perfect, have to make playlists on the pc then transfer to ipod ??? stange way to do things, should be possible on the ipod itself.... dumb Apple :(
 
Erm, i have looked and checked forums, its a common complaint, I dont want to copy All my hundreds of mp3's to the ipod, nor do i wish to spend an hour scrolling through the list to select or deselect the files i want, i just want to transfer specific files in specific folders, as with most devices... As I said, i found the easiest way seams to be via play lists, my god man, READ first!! Im not raging, just pointing out a major niggle with an otherwise neat product.
 
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Unknowndomain...
I missed the option Not to scan after install, honestly did not see such an option?
My first post related to my going to Apple's site, clicking a Big Button that Said "Download Itunes".... this link then took me straight to a sign up process, I admit though I got to the page direct from google, but never the less, it was confusing.


Fillado.

1. Are you wanting to use iTunes are your primary music player or just something to put music onto your Touch with?

Just to put my music on.

2. Are you wanting to import your whole music collection into iTunes or just some of it?

Just selected files.

3. Do you want it to manage your music-life? in other words, are you going to be ripping with it and do you want it so it manages your music? By manage music anything in the iTunes Music folder (or another folder you tell it to) is arranged by artist & album automatically when imported.

No. I want to manage my music myself, I already have my music sorted into folders such as: ABC, DEF, GHI etc, then within each group they are arranged by artist then album.

4. Are you wanting iTunes to auto-sync (ie. shove everything in iTunes to your Touch)/limited auto-sync (ie. just the playlists you select - which is what you have currently settled on)/or manual (ie. drag & drop from within iTunes)?

I have it set to auto synch, but only playlists I have set up as I want my music kept in the groups already made. Basicly I have a folder that I copy music to before burning to DVD for my car stereo, this is grouped by folders, Rock, Dance, Soft, R&B, then serveral albums by Artist - Album name. I wanted to keep this struckture on the Ipod and found the only way to do this was playlists, which now I understand how they work, is simple enough.

At the end of the day, my point is that Apple seams to want to control how you use your Ipod, the freedom is there if you look around the setting, but the defaults are terrible.
Other than that, Im enjoying my New Ipod...

One last question though, I have converted my .avi collection to Mpeg-4 using a free converter recomended on various forums... the software gives the choice of H264 or Mpeg-4, both options seam to be the same resolution and bit rate, Is there any advantage of one over the other, and is it normal that the skip forward button does Nothing or is it the video type im using? The skip backward works fine.

Thanks again.
 
Cheers Unknowndomain, no harm, its just niggles, though i can see my posts were a little harsh on itunes :)

The converted files have the .mp4 extension i think... am at work so can't check, They play fine and I can hit the skip back button during the playback of any of the video's to restart them, however, the skip forward does not work and when the video selected has finished playing, the ipod returns to the menu rather than playing the next file... is this normal?
 
Do you have the original touch? mine is a gen 2, and my screens are a little different, for example, your'e second to last pic... I dont have Videos next to playlist/Artist/Songs.... mine is playlist/Artist/Songs/Albums.

My videos were all synch as a single playlist, but only play one at a time rather than in succession.
 
Ah, well it appears the video app wont play files in succession like the music player, nor will it play a playlist like the music player, just plays one video at a time and auto returns to the menu instead of playing the next file, unless its the video format im using, cant find anything on google though so dont know.
 
Found this on a forum... seams others have had the same issue and its a simple fix as below... will try it when i get home...

"Right-click on the movie and click on “Get Info”. Then select the 3rd tab “Video”. By default videos added here will be tagged as “Movie”, change the video kind to “Music Video”(see picture below). Click Next to do the same thing to the rest of the videos, once you finish tagging all to music video, click OK and all the videos will disappear from this Movie Library section. Don’t panic, they are all added inside the Playlist of Music Video now. "

This is only one of the steps, the reset is here:
http://blogs.catydesign-studio.com/2008/08/07/create-video-playlist-on-ipod-touch/
 
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Well, the guide above sort of works...
You right click on one of you're music video's, click 'Get Info'/'Options' and change the Media Kind to 'Music Video' then click next and repeat for aLL music vids, All you're selected vids will then move from the Movies folder to the Music folder, you then create a playlist and add the vids to it and then under the 'Sync Music' tab, select you're new playlist and tick the 'Include Music videos' box at the bottom the sync...

Now when you look in you're music player, you will see the new play list and can play them all in succession or skip from one to the other without having to return to the menu.

Under the Video player, the initial screen will show 1 video = number of episodes, this when selected will show All the indiviual files and play as before, no skip and returns to menu after the current playing video has finished.

Hope this helps others, apparently its a know issue with the Gen 2 and Itunes ?
 
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