On Wednesday 07 May 2008 11:24:11 am Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> Hello, Art Alexion.
>
> On Wed, 7 May 2008 05:56:20 -0400 you said:
> > That's strange. I have only had (hand me down from my kids) mini and
> > shuffles. The mini's OS takes up a tiny amount of disk space. I can put
> > 3.8 GB of musin on its 4 GB HD. (The OS, takes up no space on the
> > shuffle's memory. I get the advertised 512 kb for music. Are you saying
> > the the OS on your iPod takes up 60 GB? That's more than the OS takes up
> > on any of my PCs, including Win 2003 Server.
>
> How in the world did you figure that "it has only 20 gigs of music"
> means "it can only hold 20 gigs"?
Because
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 00:04:39 Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> In my case, I have an 80Gb iPod Classic as well, but it only has about
> 20Gb of music on it. I'm hoping that iPhone 2.0 will have a capacity
> bump to 30/32Gb.
suggested to me that he was hoping for more space on his iPhone ("capacity
bump to 30/32 Gb") which suggested to me that he did not have the capacity.
He also said
> If not, then I can set iTunes to sync by playlist and
> use one or two of its Smart Playlists to automatically select tracks to
> add and/or rotate through.
which suggested to me that he had more than 20 Gb music requiring him to use
Smart Playlists.
What I didn't realize was that he needed 30-32 GB, not just for his music, but
for other apps as well.
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