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it decided to wipe all my music the other day and now won't let me format it. i've tried holding down rewind, menu, ffw and the center button but that does nowt, any ideas?

its lasted me about 3 years and had alot of use in that time so perhaps i should look around for a new one

Apple are getting sued by Apple Corps:

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=184417000

Kick it, Oxford fan, usually works for me  :D

And thats why i dont do ipods.

seconded

There was a problem a while ago with formatting and what version of Windows SP you are using.

Have you tried plugging it in and using the iPod auto-updater software?

yeah tried all that gubbins, the ipod doesn't seem to want to talk to anything else.

i might sell it for scrap on eBay and get a nano, i think anything apart from an ipod is just going to seem piss poor after this one

Pffffffffffft!

Ive had my 30gb Sony mp3 player since October and its way better than the ipod i had.

OF ive had a nano about 6 months and although it looks good its too much responsibiliy. Im always afraid it will break so I keep it in a padded room.

congrats, i had my ipod for 3 years and it was superdooper.i might go with the normal one then, nano 6GB is about £180 but a normal 20/30gb is about £230 seems silly not to have all that extra space for fifty notes

ipods are shit! no really they are! i dont know one person that has an ipod that actually works probably without braking after 3 months

cheers for that rich

well you bought one  :soapy tit wank:

got me there

i dont know anyone who has had an ipod that has broken. so every cloud...

apart from Oxford fan who has had his 3 years............and me, I've had mine17months and not a single problem with it

3 years here as well, survived Saaaaarf America and Glastonbury along the way.

Although I have carried that hunk of plastic up my arse for three damn years before I croak from dysentery.

ive had 2 iPods got my first one when they firsat came out about 4years ago then got a colour screen one last year, my bro, missus, and sister all have them with no problems

Not sure whether to get a Creative Zen Vision:M or an Ipod - advice please ?

NMH

your the lucky ones then. for every 10 they make i reckon only 2 will last more than a year

rich do you realise how many millions of ipods have been sold compared to how many go wrong?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4170111.stm

they sold 5 million ipods in 3 months last year

http://www.macintouch.com/reliability/ipodfailures.html

13.7% failures. one in ten.

It's all about personal preference really though isn't it? I couldn't give a crap if everyone thought ipods were the dog's bollocks if I thought they were shit (and vice-versa). I haven't got an mp3 player or used one so I don't have an opinion mind.

obviously, but to say they are unreliable is wrong.

i cant win on this damn site anyway!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

13.7% is more like one in 7 not one in ten, which isn't great.

Also, seems it's as high as one in 3 for some of them but the newer ones are less which you would expect as they haven't had as long to go wrong.

I'm thinking of getting a music player, either an ipod or one of the sony ones but it'll probably be one of the sony ones as I don't like the click wheel and they have longer battery life and seem better value. They just need to sort out the software but I don't like itunes anyway.

Pretty much every one of my friends with an iPod complains that it has broken!

Zen all the way 8)

I've had my iPod for 4 years and never had any problems with it at all.

Ace bit of kit that I use every day and bash about a fair bit too.

i'm going to invest in an ipod nano, or the sony walkman thingy  8)  which would people recommend? i can't decide!

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I guess you think it is great then?? If it was over 50% that would be really shit but that's still way too high for my liking.

 If I spend £200-£300 or so on something I'd want the chance of it failing after a year or so to be at the very least under 10%, preferably much lower 'cos I'd want to keep it longer than that. For the ones that debuted less than a year half ago old the average seems to be about 20% failure and I don't think that's very good, a lot of those would've been a lot newer than one a half years, all  depends how reliable the other music players are anyway.

The only ones that look pretty reliable on there are the video ones but the survey was done less than a month after they debuted so that's way too early to tell....

That survey is a bit dodgy anyway though, it's a mac website so they're surveying people who love ipods etc. and they're not likely to be the ones who've had a load of ipods failing.

You seem a bit defensive about the ipod, like they're somehow beyond criticism why? I'll just buy whichever one I think's the best. At the moment  I think it's pretty close between the ipod and the sony ones but I'm not gonna rule either out.

I have a sony walkman - the 20 GB one they released about 18 months ago, the version before the current one  - and it's great!  Battery life is fantastic and it's absolutely tiny (smaller than the new version)....  I absolutely love it and prefer it to iPods as I don't really like the click wheel much (but perhaps that's down to lack of practice?)

i loves the click wheel.
i got mine last may, worked fine till about 6 weeks ago when it stopped working, i sent apple an email, they sent someone round who collected it and i had a brand spanking new one delivered back to me within a week.

cant really argue with that.
can i say i couldnt give a bollocks who thinks what about what ipod zen gigabyte bonanza but ipods are proper bo.

Ive got the 30gb version of that, it's ace.

does anyone own a sony one? i hear the software, sonic stage, is a bit shit?

i'm looking at those sony 6gb ones for £128, sony 1gb with tuner £100 or iPod 30GB £190, amazon is the cheapest around for all of them.

I havent had any problems with Sonic Stage tbh.

sonic stage is good, better than itunes. the walkman's come with software called connect, which is awful and is still in beta.

it is indeed SY! im going to use Sonic Stage to transfer my music onto my walkman now becuase connect is shit  :mrgreen:

screw all this ipod malarkay, i used my sony cd walkman on holiday and it did me a treat so i'm sticking by it.

The connect player is shite. Just installed sonic stage so my bro can use his sony again now. Sonic stage is remarkably easy to use and all of it is pretty self explanatory. Had all the options set up in minutes.