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I am considering procuring a 20GB iPod in the immediate future, however, as someone who doesn't have a particular fast connection at home, and doesn't have an Apple interface at all, I am rather skittish about the entire business, and so I turn to you lot. Tell me everything you think I should know.*

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*I have also been told that once you set up one computer as your base, you can't use other computers to upload your music without losing all the contents of your iPod. I have also been told there is a way around this. Educate me kids, because my base will not be a consistent thing, like, ever.

ETA: Thank you, all of you, for your assistance!

Comments

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

4GB? That's like 400 songs? That's not even 40 CDs!

[manynames.livejournal.com]

I've got 790 on there at the moment and about half a gig free, actually.

[babyofthegroup.livejournal.com]

Depends on your encoding size; my typical mp3s are around 3.5MB apiece; that means 1000+ songs, not 400. I don't even notice any quality difference between 128 and 192 (or whatever the higher number is), so I almost always rip a the lower encoding size. I have something like 3000 songs (including some really long-ass classical pieces) on my iPod and they only take up about 14GB of space. If you took out the long pieces, that works out to just under 1000 songs in 4GB.