Ipod stuff

[Downfall]

ok so i gots me an ipod for x mas and now that Im back at Tech i can actualy hook it up to the T1 internets.

Are there any interesting tweaks for it, downloads, or anything usefull..ect?

and yes I have started this thread without fireing up google once :D

[Chimera[NL]]

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000610023097/

[cr3am]

That's awesome Chim, thanks. Does anyone else have any links to hacks?

How about sharing music on my friend's computer?

[absolute_deviation]

new ipod out in th market for $99.

[Roq]

Pod casts are pretty cool and good for road trips too.

[Downfall]

one thing i have been trying to figure out if its worth the money or not is the FM receivers for the ipod that pump ipod music over your Fm radio stations. does anyoen have one of these? the one im looking at is Icarplay at $70 and i just want to make sure that its not a waste of $$. it would be mainly for car trips to and from home (about 4 hour travel time)

http://store1.yimg.com/I/federalstereo_1820_16552673

[REBEL_AU]

there are ways to change the "do not disconnect" sign as well as everything else.

[PHAT_ASS]

Originally posted by Downfall
one thing i have been trying to figure out if its worth the money or not is the FM receivers for the ipod that pump ipod music over your Fm radio stations. does anyoen have one of these? the one im looking at is Icarplay at $70 and i just want to make sure that its not a waste of $$. it would be mainly for car trips to and from home (about 4 hour travel time)

http://store1.yimg.com/I/federalstereo_1820_16552673

my friend has one of those and the sound quality is reduced to FM signal quality just like the radio... so if you enjoy quality....dont get this.

if your car has a tape reader then get the cassette adapter else try and look around for a hack on the internet to get your cd player to read it. I did that on my friend's mazda 3. had to take out the head unit and solder a stereo plug to contacts on the pc board but the result was really worth it.

[Downfall]

no tape deck. when i had the cd player changed it was taken out. The only option i really have are those fm things. I dont exactly have the skills to soder myself.

oh well.....

[MrBored]

Originally posted by Downfall
no tape deck. when i had the cd player changed it was taken out. The only option i really have are those fm things. I dont exactly have the skills to soder myself.

oh well.....

Why the fuck do americans called it sodering, wtf its fucking solder?!?!?

[Striker]

Because we're better.

[cr3am]

Originally posted by MrBored
Why the fuck do americans called it sodering, wtf its fucking solder?!?!? It is solder. But people online either: don't know how to spell it or don't give a fuck that they don't know how to spell it. If you didn't know how to spell it, then you wouldn't know to put an L there, would you? It's just a fucking typo.

Anyways, you should hopefully have some RCA plugs in the back, and you can get a simple thingamajig to plug from iPod to RCA. If you don't, you might be able to order some sort of adapter or add-on for it. Look up your unit's model on google or some shit, see what you can dig up.

[Downfall]

well see :)

and actualy i didnt know there was an L in soder

i blame this man

http://www.allposters.com/IMAGES/MG/196514.jpg

[Hobbes874]

Tip: Get better earbuds, the stock ones suck.

ie: http://www.audiocubes.com/product/Sony_MDR-EX71SL_Fontopia_Earphone.html

[Downfall]

yeah I have noticed that. most of the time i have it hooked up to my sterio anyway. ill post a pic of my jerryrig holder im using. just need to find some batteries for my camera.

[REBEL_AU]

i found the stock ones to be fine.

[MrBored]

Originally posted by cr3am
It is solder. But people online either: don't know how to spell it or don't give a fuck that they don't know how to spell it. If you didn't know how to spell it, then you wouldn't know to put an L there, would you? It's just a fucking typo.
The problem is that the L is pronounced, solder is how you say it. Soder just pisses me off for some reason, probably because it sounds retarded. I think canadians even pronounce it correctly.

[cr3am]

Originally posted by MrBored
The problem is that the L is pronounced, solder is how you say it. Soder just pisses me off for some reason, probably because it sounds retarded. I think canadians even pronounce it correctly. Then you're pronouncing it wrong, and looking at us as if we're stupid.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=solder

[MrBored]

I didn't say you or anyone was stupid. It just sounds retarded. I remember some comedian or something ripping it off a while back as well. That site probably has the american pronunciation anyway ;p

[TopSecretBoy]

When are those Canadian fuck tards going to realise that we don't speak English, we speak American?

[REBEL_AU]

solder > soder

[portzebie]

Originally posted by Hobbes874
Tip: Get better earbuds, the stock ones suck.

ie: http://www.audiocubes.com/product/Sony_MDR-EX71SL_Fontopia_Earphone.html

Yes better ear plugs are a must unless you want ot be mugged seriously everyone who walks around UW Madison with white earbuds sticking out of their ears is just letting the world know, hey I got a ipod sticking in my sweater or pants pocket please mug me :D

I can't find the link but you can open it up and add tinted film like they use in theatres and make a colored screen they say red works the best.

http://www.colorwarepc.com/products/customize.aspx?configid=501
Coustom color your ipod they have about 20 different colors I got mine painted Alpine green it's awesome looking stands out compared to white

[cr3am]

Can someone pleasee tell me how the fuck I can listen to my iTunes with goddamned hotkeys? I wanna play fuckin' NFS:U2, but I can't do that without mah music, and I can't listen to mah music without hotkeys...

[Downfall]

Right from Itunes help folder :) hope these help ya

Keyboard Shortcuts
You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in iTunes. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the list at the bottom of this page). Many items in iTunes (songs, column headings) also have contextual menus. To see a contextual menu, click the item using the right mouse button.

To do an action, press the keys indicated below.


Action Shortcut





Playback shortcuts



Play the selected song immediately

Enter

Listen to the next or previous album in a list

Shift-Control-Alt-Right Arrow or Left Arrow

Rewind or fast-forward to the next song in a list

Left Arrow or Right Arrow (or click the Skip Forward or Skip Backward controls in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window)


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Library and playlist shortcuts




Create a new Smart Playlist

Shift-click the Add (+) button

Reshuffle the current playlist

Shift-click the Shuffle button

Delete the selected playlist from your Source list without confirming that you want to delete it

Control-Delete

Delete the selected playlist and all the songs it contains from your library

Shift-Delete

Delete the selected song from your library and all playlists

Shift-Delete


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Music Store shortcuts




Go to the next page in the Music Store

Control-Right bracket (])

Go to the previous page in the Music Store

Control-Left bracket ([)


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File and window shortcuts




Check or uncheck all the songs in a list

Control-click the checkbox next to a song

Change the song information columns you see

Using the right mouse button, click a column heading

Expand or collapse all the triangles in the Radio's Stream list

Control-click a triangle

Zoom the window to an ideal size

Shift-double-click the title bar

See more options when a visual effect is showing

Press ?, then press the indicated key to use an option (not all visual effects support this)

Refresh the Radio or Party Shuffle list

F5 key


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Spoken word shortcuts




Go to the next or last chapter (if available)

Control-Shift-Right Arrow or Left Arrow


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File menu shortcuts




Create a new playlist

Control-N

Create a new playlist with the selected songs

Control-Shift-N

Create a new Smart Playlist

Control-Alt-N

Add a file to the Library

Control-O

Close the iTunes window

Control-W

Import a song, playlist, or library file

Control-Shift-O

Open the song or CD Info window for the selected song or CD

Control-I

Show where a song file is located

Control-R

Show the currently playing song in the list

Control-L


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Edit menu shortcuts




Undo your last typing change while still in edit mode

Control-Z

Cut the selected song's information or artwork

Control-X

Copy the selected song's information or artwork

Control-C

Paste the selected song's information or artwork

Control-V

Select all the songs in the list

Control-A

Deselect all the songs in the list

Control-Shift-A

Hide or Show the Artist and Album columns

Control-B

Hide or Show the song artwork

Control-G

Open the View Options window for the selected source

Control-J

Open iTunes preferences

Control-comma


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Controls menu shortcuts




Stop or start playing the selected song

Space Bar

When a song is playing, play the next song in a list

Right Arrow

When a song is playing, play the previous song in a list

Left Arrow

Increase the volume

Control-Up Arrow

Decrease the volume

Control-Down Arrow

Mute the sound (song keeps playing)

Control-Shift-Down Arrow

Eject a CD

Control-E


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Visualizer menu shortcuts




Turn the visualizer on or off

Control-T

Switch between visual effects taking up the entire screen or appearing in the iTunes window (when visualizer is on)

Control-F


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Advanced menu shortcuts




Switch to the mini player window

Control-M

Stream audio file at a specific URL to iTunes

Control-U


heres what google thought about it (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-23,GGLD:en&q=itunes+hotkeys)

[Hitman]

Tip: Get better earbuds, the stock ones suck.


No don't listen to Hobbes.. on the streets of Boston you can easily collect 100 iPods a day, especially from the homos in backbay.. fags just love their iPods.

[cr3am]

Downfall, the menu doesn't help because it doesn't have GLOBAL hotkeys. Only hotkeys when iTunes is the main window.

All the proggies I've found through google are mac only.

[Downfall]

ill see if i can find non-mac programs

[Bhazard]

I'm pretty sick of my headphones for my ipod, but I want to listen to my songs in the car. Whats the best way of doing that(considering I don't have a cassete player). So far my only option is through the radio. Apple makes the iTrip, but is it the best? What are some other options? If you've used any of them please tell me what you think and if you'd recomend them. I've heard that all of them are radio quality, but radio quality is fine with me. Any suggestions would be appreciative.

[cr3am]

less than radio quality. Damn FCC regulations won't allow a powerful broadcasting signal.

[Smapdey]

I have a radio transmitter, it's nice. I also have an auxillary port on my radio in the car. I also have a car charger.

The problem is that there's a high pitched whine if I plug the iPod in while charging it off the car, I have no idea why. It's awful.

The radio thing can be a little scratchy, but that's largely because of all the radio traffic in the Albuquerque valley, I had no interference when I was in Portland.

I like the auxillary port, it's just like having a headphone jack in your car, only instead of playing over the headphones, it plays on the speakers.

Depends on how much radio traffic is in the area you live in and the shape of the city.

I have one of these babies, I like it alot, and they make models for all the iPods. http://www.everythingipod.com/suggest.tpl?command=search&db=dbs/products.db&cart=110972672031476732&eqPRONAMEdatarq=DLO%20TransPod%20FM%3Cbr%3EAll-In-One%20Car%20Solution&searchSKU=w009-2002&max=1&eqAVAILdatarq=YES&max=1