iPod Fed up with ipod (warning- very hot vent)

[anonymous161]

This kind of stuff amazes me. I owned 3 iPods (1G, 3G, 4G) as well as an iPod mini and a shuffle and all were assembled well and have worked flawlessly (I take that back, I had to reinstall some system software on the 3G once but after that it was perfect). I use them frequently but I take good care of them. I wipe them off, keep them within their operating temperatures and try to keep them off the ground.

This is not directed at anyone who posted here, but there are some individuals who are just too hard on technology. They go along, don't maintain anything and wonder why they keep getting all these lemons. My brother-in-law has broken every electronic device he has ever owned, which includes 2 computers, 3 TV's, a Playstation2, 3 or 4 other game consoles, 4 personal cd players, numerous sets of headphones, a car stereo, 2 multi-disc DVD players, 2 VCRs, and I am sure several other devices I am forgetting. He doesn't smash them with a hammer or anything like that, but he doesn't clean them or use them with any sort of care. Obviously he is an extreme case, but I am sure there other less disfunctional electronics users out there who wonder why everything they own breaks.

 

[tom5304]

Although my gripe is with iTunes and not with the mechanical soundness of the iPod, I sometimes feel like switching over to another music player. My gripe is the complete lack of randomness in the iTunes random shuffle.

I have 3,500 songs, and there's just no way that one or two of a half-dozen of my songs are going to show up in the first 15 songs EVERY time. There's one song (Jackson Brown?) that shows up every other time in the first 15 songs. No way. I'm well versed in the science of statistics, and the odds of this happening randomly are ridiculous. Much better odds playing the lottery. I play my entire library in shuffle mode, and this iTunes flaw makes me want to chuck the whole danged thing.