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

[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.