Yeah just tried that too... nothing... Any other ideas? Lets say the battery was completely dead, and it just needed charging. Would it still show up in the computer? Would the…

How are you connecting it to your computer? To a Mac or PC? My old iPod had to charge via a wall outlet with the supplied adapter. Until I got firewire then I could charge via t…

Quote: Originally Posted by jhogarty How are you connecting it to your computer? To a Mac or PC? My old iPod had to charge via a wall outlet with the supplied adapter. Until …

Forgive my ignorance, but with my laptop that had USB I had to charge it with the electrical adapter. They may have changed this with the new ones. I know for sure that firewire …

How can i get stuff under the audio book part for my ipod, i cant seem to find it anywhere :/

You have audiobooks? You have to give us info to help. We don't read minds (usually).

ok sorry, ive got a 4th gen 20 gig....from the main menu of it, if i select 'music' scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list there is an 'Audioboooks' option. I have some…

Ah, ok. If you get audiobooks from iTMS and/or Audible.com, they will show in the Audiobooks portions. You may be able to edit the info on a book you ripped yourself for it to sho…

What stuff do you have that you want to get onto the iPod? These foreign language audio files, what format are they in? I know a way to get them on the AudioBooks catergory, I just…

They are mp3's

Okay. In iTunes, go to Edit > Preferences > Importing. Choose the AAC Encoding and whatever bitrate you want. Click okay. Import the .mp3 files into iTunes. Find them, righ…

My thanks also for that tip, it'll be good to find my audiobooks in...audiobooks :-) fyi: I used "A Better Finder Rename" contextual menu to do the extension renaming. Very effici…

Quote: Originally Posted by chasg The only drag is that, when I convert MP3 files to AAC (that I can then give them .m4b extensions), I get copies of the original mp3 files in t…

Good tip, and great scripts, thanks for the pointer! Chas

I have some CD's that are spoken-word material and I noticed that I could rip to AAC and "make bookmarkable" using the script from Doug Adams (see below) with one problem... The p…

You can join tracks that are already in iTunes by opening them in Quicktime Player and pasting them together into a single file. You need Quicktime Pro, I think, but then it's easy…

This is just about the most trashy website I have ever seen. In the past he did cellphone reviews involving his unattractive wife with huge fake boobs practically treating a cellp…

I say you hunt down and KILL those that make you go to that site.

Quote: Originally Posted by Kevin I say you hunt down and KILL those that make you go to that site. No kidding, poor chap. Them holding a gun to his head and making him visi…

Ah ha ha ha. Who would have thought the two of you would be the first to post

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At least they are not as skimpy on sig size as MacNN -t

It's "hard"? <Someone is going to be visiting that site a lot from now on I think... I thought those phone's and devices were very sexy. (say with lisp) thufferin thuckatash. …

Quote: Originally Posted by budster101 Definately make the people pay who made you view that web site. goddamn them! all!!!!!!! I wonder if those who forced him only did tha…

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