My Powerbook is too old to use with my iPod touch.

[GilloD]

I have 10.3.9 because when I installed 10.4 my powerbook went CHUG CHUG. It;s almost 5 years old. My Mom got me an iPod Touch. You need to use iTunes 8 with an iPod touch. Apple's solution? Buy a new Powerbook.

Good thing my PC at work is up to the task. It;s still a fuckin' pain to get all my music there.

[MCD]

I'd suggest using alternative players like Foobar2000 or Winamp 5 + plugins but...

this foobar plugin says "Not compatible with iPod touch or iPhone with 2.x software".

so, what's your iPod touch version?

edit: powerbook, mac.

man i feel dumb.

[T-Short]

Huh. Most of the old machines I've reinstalled have run better on Tiger than on Panther. How much RAM is in there?

[Bildi]

I agree, it should run better than 10.3.9  An 8-9 year old G4 should perform much the same from 10.3.9 to 10.4 so there must be something else causing the chugging - if you're a bit short on ram maybe try diabling the Dashboard?

[Fragamemnon]

iTunes on Windows?

 

one christmas I gave a relative an ipod for christmas. NEVER AGAIN.

[chronovore]

10.4.n runs better on most macs than 10.3.n - You're probably short a minimum amount of RAM. You want 1GB minimum, minimum, minimum. No, seriously, minimum -- to run OS X at all. If you can bump whatever hateful old PPC powerbook you're rocking up to 1 or 1.5GB RAM, you'll be fine.

[GilloD]

10.4.n runs better on most macs than 10.3.n - You're probably short a minimum amount of RAM. You want 1GB minimum, minimum, minimum. No, seriously, minimum -- to run OS X at all. If you can bump whatever hateful old PPC powerbook you're rocking up to 1 or 1.5GB RAM, you'll be fine.

Hmm. I may do this. I think I only have 512, heh.

[ch1nchilla]

  I got a new iPod classic for Christmas yesterday (was stuck in the mail), and when I try to sync it I get a message that says something along the lines of "Unable to sync, cannot read from or write to iPod." I'm thinking it's corrupted MP3s... either that or my MacBook Pro's HDD is failing or the iPod already has a broken HDD.

Anyone know of any programs to pinpoint corrupted MP3s for OS X?

[Bildi]

Ooh how do you disable Dashboard? I need to do this on my Mac Mini.

Sorry, I'm not sure - I've never had to disable it.  I did hear it's pretty memory-intensive though.

[TVC15]

one christmas I gave a relative an ipod for christmas. NEVER AGAIN.

Every iPod I have ever owned, the battery life starts getting dramatically worse after just one year.  Here's hoping my Zune performs better.

With that said, I love my iPhone and I would probably commit suicide if I had to use anything else.  Ask MAF or Prole, I am like a fucking junkie with it.

I give Apple plenty of shit for using cheap components and charging premium prices, but the user experience on an iPhone is simply incredibly. . .even though they cheaped out on ghetto 3G hardware, shokku.

[BlueTsunami]

Foobar is absolutely fantastic, you just have to explore the UI options. Its as if they made the standard UI as plain as possible to scare the non adventurous away.

I've currently got it setup to kinda look like iTunes media library without the sluggishness of actually using iTunes.

[ch1nchilla]

I got a new iPod classic for Christmas yesterday (was stuck in the mail), and when I try to sync it I get a message that says something along the lines of "Unable to sync, cannot read from or write to iPod." I'm thinking it's corrupted MP3s... either that or my MacBook Pro's HDD is failing or the iPod already has a broken HDD.

Anyone know of any programs to pinpoint corrupted MP3s for OS X?

Have you tried various initialization things, such as hard reset of the iPod? Firmware upgrade? Firmware reset? I doubt it would be your Mac's HDD causing the problem.

I kind of solved the problem... I'm just dragging in my library in chunks, and then I'll try auto-sync after I have everything in...

EDIT: The plan worked! Awesome.