iPOD is A BIG LIAR?

Question

I just bought an ipod nano for 150 dollars. The box says that i have 1gb of space for music m when in fact I only have like 870 mb of space..what the hell. Is there a way of maximizing this or did apple just fuking lie and say 1gb when in fact its only 870 mb.. The package says 250 songs, while the most i can get on it is 214..what the ***..Im pissed ..anyonme else have this problem or is my ipod a peicre of shiitt

and if the extra space is due to the sofware that runs the ipod then they should add it on top of the advertised 1gb of music space. It doesnt matter how long or short my songs are if i have one song that is 1gb then it should fit...right?

Answer 1

Just start liking some shorter songs, duh.

Answer 2

The iPod nano is a great testament to clean engineering, design, and efficiency in a portable device. However, Apple failed to consider that the available storage capacity is very small! UncycloMedia Commons has released this guide to installing additional storage on your iPod nano brand device. It might be a good idea to set aside a good two to three hours to installing this addon, but it's pretty easy to perform, as long as you know what you're doing.
Before you Start

Before you get started, you're going to need the following components, easily orderable online.

(1) iPod nano 2 GB model, white.
(1) Soldering iron
(1) Silver non rosin core solder
(1) Philips screwdriver
(1) RAIDMAX IDE interface controller, model 323RS-0
(1) Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 200 GB IDE 3.5" HD
(1) Rounded IDE Cable
(1) Brain to figure out power consumption

Note that this set of instructions will not work with the black version. Be sure to ask your retailer which model you are receiving prior to shipment. As well as not working with the black version, this will also not work with the 4 GB version so check the version and space before doing any modification to the iPod

Note that the 200 GB capacity enables you to store about 50,000 pieces of music. If this capacity is filled with illegal "warez" mp3s, you can be fined up to 75,000 USD. (204,800 megabytes, 4 megabytes per song, 10 songs per CD, average CD price illegally fixed at 15 USD)

Answer 3

The tech specs for the nano say two important things about storage:

"1GB = 1 billion bytes; actual formatted capacity less."

"Song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song and 128-Kbps AAC encoding; photo capacity is based on iPod-viewable photos transferred from iTunes. 25,000 photos refers to 2GB and 4GB iPod nano. 1GB iPod nano holds up to 15,000 photos."

If you store long, high-bitrate songs, you are going to fit far fewer than 250. Conversely, if you store short, low-bitrate songs you're going to fit far more.

Answer 4

Don't forget the software that runs the tunes. And the amount of songs depends on the length of each...if you read the directions it tells you so.

Answer 5

everone has this problem......the take u space for the software in the ipod..that is the program that helps run the iupod...they dont tell u but that is the way it is...u can upgrade ur memmory card in ur ipod......there is a lot of different memmory cards...look n the internet or go to the nmac store

Answer 6

Ipods are the biggest waste on money. My husbands never works right and I had to return two of them before I could get one that worked . . . most of the time.

Answer 7

Something must be wrong with the Ipod, when they say 1GB they actually mean 900 and something MB, you could try de-fragging it...

Answer 8

it really actually depends on the type of songs that you put in like mp3, WMA, WAV and a lot others...

Answer 9

if you put pistures on the screen for each song it will also take up space

Answer 10

That's why I didn't buy an Ipod...I was allways thinking that it is a piece of trash