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 enlarge | Brand: Apple
Category: CE
List Price: $249.00
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Rating:  831 reviews
Sales Rank: 127
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Display Size: 2.5
Size: 80 GB
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 3.5 x 2
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: MB147LL/A
Model: MB147LL/A
UPC: 885909176656
EAN: 0885909176656
ASIN: B000JLKIHA
Release Date: September 5, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Sufficient disc space, iTunes is poor October 17, 2007
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I recently upgraded from the "old" 80 Gbyte iPOD to the new Classic 160 Gbyte iPOD (my old one couldn't hold all of my ripped CDs). Before I synced the new iPOD, I upgraded iTunes from version 6.9.something to the latest ones. In this process, a *large* fraction of the cover art that I had spent some 100 hours to scan and insert into iTunes, mysteriously disappeared. That is, they disappeared from iTunes, but if I watch the same Mp3 files in Windows Media Player, the cover art is still there.
At this time, I decided to download cover art from the iTunes Store. This recreated most of the cover art (but in a lower quality than I had used). Still, the cover art for nearly all of my Van Morrison records were missing, and half of those of my Paul Simon records + some more. As neither Van Morrison nor Paul Simon are obscure artists, I find this rather annoying.
Being systematic, I use family name before first name in my artist information, thus "Morrison, Van". However, I then found that if I change the artist name to "Van Morrison", iTunes finds some of the cover art. For some reason, it inserts the cover art of some "Darren Morrison" on the Greatest Hits album of Van Morrison. This only serves to confirm my impression of iTunes.
Another problem: I have several albums named "Anthology" (e.g. by Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles). iTunes screws up this completely: when I scroll through the Album list on my iPOD, the software has *merged* all files named "Anthology", so when I go in on the album, the songs of Marvin Gaye and those of the Miracles both show up. The same is the case in iTunes. Another problem on the iPOD: the album cover of "Anthology" and that of "The Anthology" (Bobby 'Blues' Bland) are repeated some 40-50 times, apparently for no reason at all.
iTunes holds a lot of useful information about albums that I rip; this information is automatically put into the fields of the MP3 file. Overall -- having ripped some 1000 CDs -- my impression is that there are inaccuracies and/or gross errors in at least 10% of this information.
In summary: I'm not very impressed with iTunes; these are irritating glitches. (Of course, Windows Media Player has its own flaws...).
Ok. So my review so far has dealt with iTunes. I'm quite happy with the iPOD itself. I haven't had time yet to check if it handles playlists better than my old iPOD. (I have carefully created my own playlists in a previous version of iTunes, where obviously also the sequence of songs were important). When I imported the playlists to my previous iPOD, the song sequence was screwed up on the iPOD.
In summary: a mixed impression of the iPOD + iTunes.
Finally: another stupidity with iTunes. A few years ago, I bought an extended version of Quicktimes because i wanted to be able to convert Quicktimes movies to the Microsoft format. I then updated iTunes on my machine. And without notifying me, a new version of Quicktimess was also installed, overwriting the one I had paid for.
Looks Good, But Lost Some of 5th Gens Features October 17, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Eventhough it may look pretty, if you plan on watching videos not from itunes then you will notice an extra set of black bars for 16:9 movies, a very dark set halfway to the picture, and another lighter set the other halfway, which changes in brightness with the picture. My 5th gen doesn't do this. Also when you load video into the TV Show section and it's not from itunes then it will mess up the order of all the other TV Shows, even the one's from itunes. If you really don't need 160GB, and you plan on watching videos not from itunes, then I suggest the 5th gen model for the 80GB, which you might be able to pick up at a cheap price with the new models. The only "improvements" would be the album covers that are now displayed throughout the menus, that I feel isn't worth the change.
 SIMPLY LOVE IT! October 16, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I received my Ipod Classic 80GB yesterday and I love it! I upgraded my 4th generation 20GB Ipod and love the simplicity and oustanding video that the Ipod Classic delivers. I contemplated buying the Ipod Touch, but was afraid that I would bang it up taking it to the gym and everyday use and $400.00 is a little too steep to shell out for an Ipod with only 16GB although the features are impressive. Right out of the box, the Ipod Classic is very user friendly in syncing with Itunes which I love.
Not having a video Ipod before, I am very impressed and glad that I waited for the 6th generation Ipod.
 Great Concept... Seriously Flawed October 15, 2007
466 out of 542 found this review helpful
Ok. I have not read any other comments on this product on the Amazon webpage because I want it be about my experience and not influenced by anybody else's experience. I'll go back and read the other reviews after I post this and see where I fit in.
I purchased my 160GB iPod Classic 2 weeks ago because I was getting very limited on my previous 60G iPod (my 4th iPod) and I thought the extra 100 Gigs of space would last me for the next years with no problems. That aspect of the product has proved to be true.
That's when the problems began.
First, after uploading my entire 60 Gigs of songs and videos (6 hours to do that) the menus were so sluggish they were unusable.
The coverflow view provided the album cover for every artist on every album as a different album cover so it literally took 5 minutes to scroll from the first album to the last which made this "selling point" totally unusable. If the coverflow view just provided a view of each album cover by the name of the album, like I do when I view CD's on my bookshelf I would be happy, but what they have done makes no sense at all. After installing the 1.0.2 firmware update things improved slightly because they removed artists from compilation albums from the sort order and moved them to the end of the list, but seriously, nobody at Apple seems to have even looked at how someone picks up a CD from a bookshelf... by the single CD case which is a single title, not arranged by who sang each track on each CD!
OK, we'll get around that coverflow problem by just ignoring it and not using it. Check.
So, I put the thing in the dock on my PC. Hours later after the first synch all is good. But then, each successive time when you put it in the dock you get into a repeating connected, synching, connected, synching, connected, syching mode, and you cannot stop it. iTunes says synching once, but then if you try to eject the thing you can't. iTunes locks up for minutes at a time.
What do I do next? I go to the Apple Support discussions. I realize that there are many, many comments about this. Hmm! So I post some questions and I make a point of saying I have bought 4 other iPods and none of them do this. They all get deleted from the discussion groups.
Then I start monitoring the discussion groups by downloading the entire website several times a day and I realize that Apple is literally deleting many, many posts about these same problems.
The message you get from them is that you are violating their guidelines which I guess means that if you complain that your product flat out doesn't work you aren't allowed on the "support group".
Then if you start to examine the discussion groups and realize that Apple has intentionally disabled many of the video functions of the previous iPod models which breaks EVERY non-Apple video device out there you have to start wondering if Apple has not become the Anti-Apple!
What ever happened to "Think Different"?
Seriously, this is the most flawed product Apple has ever produced and as a fifth time Apple iPod buyer I have to say it's the last iPod I will ever own. Apple seems to be much worse than any other company now that they have a monopoly on MP3 players.
My vote is to buy anything BUT Apple from no on because they just screwed me, and thousands of other people, over on this iPod Classic.
no problems here October 14, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just got an 80 gb classic and it's quite nice, i can't say i have any of the complaints many have been having. The click wheel isn't as sensitive but i actually like that fact,i'm not accidentally clicking things cuz the wheel is so sensitive. I previously had a 1g 2gb nano and it's great but just didn't hold enough of my music collection,the 80gb classic is beautifull and holds all my music with plenty of room for more. I'd read all the reviews and was a little worried but went for it anyway because the price was just too good for 80 gb and i'm not sorry i bought it at all.
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