New Purchase: iPod Touch

[jacey]

Yeah, I couldn't resist it. At long last I've bought an iPod Touch (4th gen, 32g). I managed to get it on to the house wifi network (score one point for me!) but I'm still fathoming out how to work it to get the best advantage. It's the first ipod I've ever owned, so I'm really only just beginning to grasp first principles. Yes I have managed to use it to listen to a series of podcasts from the (free) university lectures available, and I have managed to sync it to my google calendar, but there's lots more I can do with it, I'm sure.

My big bugbear is that everything seems to hinge on being able to operate the itunes software. Since I'll mostly be using the touch for audio books and radio plays (transferred from my own computer files for starters) It's annoying to keep finding myself accidentally connected to the itunes shop.

For some reason I don't seem to be able to edit titles. I keep getting pushed towards getting the title and track info from the web, but a lot of the music I listen to is folk music from small-time record labels. It's not ON the web to download. Why can't I just edit the details in itunes once I've got the mp3s sitting there? I found a screen that looks like I should be able to do that but for some reason all the boxes I need to edit are greyed out. Frustrating.

I'm looking forward to getting the video recording up and running. One of the reasons for buying the Touch was that I'd been contemplating a small HD video recorder and this feature is incorporated into the Touch. That's one of the reasons I went for the 32gig memory instead of the 8gig.

So, come on, all you iPhone and iPod owners, give me some general hints and tips please.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new toy! Mine is the previous version, but it does what I want. My only problem is that we don't have wifi, so I have to transfer everything via iTunes -- except some things won't. Amazon Kindle books for one. I am therefore gnashing my teeth at the moment looking for the best and cheapest solution to this problme. In the short term, it might involve eating cakes and drinking tea at the only local cafe that has free wifi!

Re the track info. I have been editing this just fine via iTunes, but I do it on the desktop computer before syncing, not the iPod.

Like you I have recordings that are not on the web at all, like the Welsh lessons and the soundtrack from the Welsh drama we did. If you right click on the track, you should able to add/change artist etc in the dialogue box.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

In the library view I right click on the track and hey-presto, no dialogue box. I get a menu that allows me to do various things like: like, show, add to playlist, get artist profile, get artwork, even delete, but not edit.

Am I being thick or something?

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

klwilliams may have already solved your problem, but if you right click on the track then click on Get Info, you will see a dialogue box. Click on the Info tab and you can edit the details, as shown below.

[lapswood.livejournal.com]

As an iPhone 3Gs owner, this is what I do if I have mp3 tracks not ripped from cd's. If you open iTunes on your pc then click under the File dropdown menu and choose 'add a file' option. Choose your favourite folk mp3 tracks. After they've uploaded to the main music screen then you can edit the track names and details before your sync you iPod. Hope this is of some help?

The thing I have trouble with is all my album artwork is not showing up on my coverflow when I flick through the screen in landscape. Don't know how to fix that! :0/

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

To change the titles, use iTunes. (Sorry.) There's an information screen where you can update all that info.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I can't find the informatiuon screen so no updating. Also some of the radio plays which have perfectly good names in the file get grabbed ny iTunes minus their names, so they end up with a download date as an identifier. Not so good, huh?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

From iTunes, select the song with the wrong filename, and choose File->Get Info. That will bring up a tabbed window, and on the Info tab you can change the name of the song, the artist, and anything else you want to change.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks Got it and it's working now. The first time I found that info screen it remained resolutely greyed out, but now it's letting me add information. Whew, thanks.

One more question. I downloaded 3 apps via itunes which show up on itunes but don't appear to have been transferred to the Touch. The app I bought directly via the Touch is on the screen just fine.
Also how do I delete apps from the Touch?