I pod upload

Dave_liverpool

Hi

I have an ipod touch, its ace BUT I'm trying to upload another set of cd's that have been in the loft out of the way.

Its taking forever, its loading at 2.4x at present.

It used to be quick as anything, at this rate it'll take an hour per cd and they will have to go back in the loft.

Please help.

rdpro

try CopyTrans from here: http://www.ephpod.com/download.shtml

Strangely, I just got off the phone to a mate with almost identical problems - found it via google.

bat999

@Dave_liverpool
If you're ripping those CDs to load into iTunes, it's converting them to mp3 or mp4 format.
Check that you've not got the bitrate set too high, that would make it take a long time to convert.

Dave_liverpool

I will admit to not knowing a word of you type mate, so embarrased.

I bet I've had this 1 cd in for approx half hour and its done 3 tracks!

davester

take one of the songs that in your 30 mins for 3 tracks, how long is that track in play time and how large in Megabytes is the file size?

Dave_liverpool

the 1st 3 tracks were 3.36/3.10/4.04, I can't see where the megabytes info is.

Its got a bit faster now 3 more on already!

Quaint1

Dave_liverpool,
Here's how to check the import settings on iTunes: click on the Edit menu, then click on Preferences. Click on the General tab - somewhere in the middle of the screen should be a button for "Import Settings". Click on it and it should bring up another panel with two pull down menus and a greyed out box - this box should have the current settings for your iTunes. If somewhere in there you see 320 kbps (stereo) then that's probably the reason why the CD's are going so slowly!
Try changing the settings in the Setting pull down menu - you can probably get away with selecting the 'Higher Quality' setting (192 kbps).
Another thing is - if your CD's are older, might they be a bit scratched? If so, and if you have a tick next to "Use error correction when reading audio CD's", then that will slow things down as well - iTunes will have several 'goes' at reading the CD to try 'fix' the scratch problem, and this can take ages.
Au Res.,
Paul

Dave_liverpool

Hi Quaint,
thanks for that info, yes I found the import settings and it is set to sterio. I changed it to high quality and it immediatly went to 3.1x.

The settings read

Import using : AAC Encoder

Import: High Quality 128 kbps

Dave_liverpool

I'm glad I wasn't needing my ipod for a holiday for a while


new cd and its at 5.6x

Dave_liverpool

its gone back to 1.6x

this is painful

bat999

Hi
The bitrate of 128Kbps is OK, so that's not what is causing the problem.