Size really has nothign to do with what your "skill level" is, it has mostly to do with what you want to do with your iPod (or whatever device). How many CD's do you have that you want to put on? Unless it is in the many hundreds of CD's, then you can probably get by with one of the smaller sizes. It also depends on how much of an audiophile you are. I say this because the higher the quality, the more space you need to store a given song/CD. A CD itself actually holds around 700MB, but it's totally uncompressed. When you convert that to MP3 or AAC (the formats that the iPod uses), the compression makes this a lot smaller - anywhere from half to 85% maybe depending on quality. Even at 85%, though, it's excellent quality and many people won't be able to tell that apart from a CD. Especially if you are playing this in the car where there's all kinds of extraneous sound, 85% will probably be indistinguishable from your original CD. So that's about 100MB per CD. The smallest player is the shuffle, and that comes with as little as 2GB of storage, or about 20 albums worth. The smallest Nano is 4GB, and then you have the iPod Touch starting at 8GB and the Classic starting at 80GB. So it really depends on how many CD's you have, what your budget is, etc. All of these are fairly easy to use. The Nano and the Classic have just about the same interface, which the iPod Touch is somewhat different and also offers a bunch of additional features that the others don't (wifi internet, lots of third party apps you can download, you can check your email on it, browse the web, etc. - if you have access to a wifi hotspot that is). The shuffle has no screen at all, so it's probably a little harder for a rank novice as you say, but you could also just go to a local Apple store or even Best Buy and play with the various models to see which one you like. You can put other content like photos, audiobooks, and video on most of these as well, but these will of course all take up more space. Photos only take 100K per image, but audiobooks (especially longer, unabridged ones) can take up 100's of MB's, and video takes up the most room - probably 100-300MB per hour? Hope this helps.
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From: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com [AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of djdesideri [djdesi98@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 11:48 AM
To: AppleiPod@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Apple iPod] thinking about an iPod
My new car has a port for an iPod or similar device. I don't want my
original CDs in the car, so would have to copy them. I've been
wondering if an iPod would be a better way to bring my music into the
car. As I know nothing about them, I thought it would be a good idea
to do a little learning. I presume, I would copy my CDs [and/or buy
other music] onto my iMac and then to the iPod. What size would you
recommend for a rank beginner? Please advise.
dolores
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