How does this Shuffle's audio quality compare to the previous Shuffle? I have the 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle, and I heard the 1st Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle has very good audio quality, while the 2nd Gen is so-so. How about the 4th Gen on this page? It looks very much like the 2nd, but what about the sound quality? How does this Shuffle's audio quality compare to the previous Shuffle? I have the 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle, and I heard the 1st Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle has very good audio quality, while the... » Read More How does this Shuffle's audio quality compare to the previous Shuffle? I have the 2nd Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle, and I heard the 1st Gen and 3rd Gen Shuffle has very good audio quality, while the 2nd Gen is so-so. How about the 4th Gen on this page? It looks very much like the 2nd, but what about the sound quality? « Show Less
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If possible, would you compare it to the standard headphones in the package, because using a headphone like the big one and/or that cost $299 is obviously going to make a difference and make it quite nicer.
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This is my first ipod, so I can't compare to anything other than my older Creativ Zen V-Plus. I would say that for it's tiny size and ease of use, it has very good sound quality, no worse than my Zen which I think sounds great. The earphones that come with the ipod are fine, but I do think the Sony earphones I use allow for more bass to come through.
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I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that. All I can say is that I am very satisfied with the new Shuffle.
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Using the standard Apple earphones, the Shuffle has astonishing sound quality; the best so far.
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The new Shuffle has remarkable sound quality. But it mostly depends on what kind of earphones you're using.
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I'm going to ask you one more question if you don't mind. If I just want the best player I can find to listen to music and don't care about lists, album art, interfaces or anything else. I just want to put my songs on the player and listen to them in the order they come up, which do you recommend? (Can you tell I'm an old lady and just love to listen to music? LOL!) All that matters to me is good sound, ease of putting songs on the player, number of songs I can add to the player and how long it will play music on one charge. Even the Cowan 160 GB player sounds interesting to me.
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I really like the shuffle, It makes swimming laps fun. The shuffle has not been a problem. The problem I had was getting the smaller rubber ear covers on the main buds. I never could do it. I use the Buds that came with shuffle without the little ear buds. They are uncomfortable. They need to make different sizes of the main buds. I have little ear holes to,but like I said, I cannot get the smaller rubber buds on the main buds. Hope this helps.....
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i have a older mp3 and it has a shuffle option and that's great but it plays the songs in the same shuffle order every time. sounds funny I have 900 songs in mine but have listened to it for so long I can almost tell u what song is coming on next!
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This is the shuffle I purchased that will not fit: Apple iPod shuffle 2GB Silver (5th Generation) NEWEST MODELSold by: EverythingDealsI have not be able to edit my review to reflect 5th generation.
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I am happy with my Creative system. It plays to my satisfaction with no issues. I think it also depends on certain downloads you may have; say on your IPOD. If they aren't the best quality & sound fuzzy, they can also playback with the same results. Having said that, I think for the money they are great. Hope this helps!
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Should be the 1st gen. It works well. Only gripe is it always developes a crack in the 2mm space between the bottom microphone hole and the bottom. Could be my phone, but its happened twice.Its also saved my phone twice too though. So its definitely worth it.
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I tried for over 3 hours to get 2 different 2nd gen ipod shuffles to work in windows vista home premium desktop hp. I updated firmware on shuffles and restored to factory shipping setting. Restarted PC. Itunes version 7.3. Will not sync individual songs to shuffle. Will sync whole library. But cannot see ipod shuffle contents in itunes. Then ipod shuffle would not work in itunes.Tried a new ipod nano purchased in dec 2006 blue colored ipod nano. Same difficulty.Any suggestions. Does the ipod shuffle work in windows vista??? Does the Ipod nano work in windows vista??
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I didn't get it to work on my Shuffle which is was a 2nd gen. It only lit up when it was first plugged it but it didn't charge at all. I'm not sure if it would sync on the computer but I mainly bought it for wall charging purposes so I shipped it back and ended up going to the Apple store and forking over $30
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I'm interested in the Apple iPod Shuffle 2GB strictly for listening to audiobooks from Audible.com. Is this a good choice and is 2GB enough storage and does it bookmark. I am new to these devices. I'd like the lowest price until I learn more about them. Also how do you charge it? And can I use a regular headset or does it have to be earbuds which I can't use with my hearing aid.sure would appreciate any and all help on this.
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When I bought the shuffle I didn't notice the whole USB 2.0 thing, till I got it home, connected it to my USB port and tried to transfer a song. I kept getting errors saying that the device could not be written to. I went and bought a USB 2.0 card with 5 ports for $32, installed it and everything worked fine from then on. Other people have told me that it should work with USB 1.0, just slower...but I didn't find that to be the case.
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This is the shuffle I purchased that will not fit: Apple iPod shuffle 2GB Silver (5th Generation) NEWEST MODEL Sold by: EverythingDeals I have not be able to edit my review to reflect 5th generation.
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I recommend purchasing the newer version. I own and love the old version and the new version has the option of adding a twist but you can just chose to play it the traditional way. The biggest reason I would recommend purchasing the new one if the words and people are more current and relevant to today.
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I had the 5.5 80gb classic and was very satisfied with the audio quality of it. But gen. 6 120gb is very audibly inferior -- sounds compressed and tinny, regardless of how high the bitrate is. After 2 weeks, I returned it and bought a 120mb MS zune -- had mixed feelings about it. But the sound quality blows away the iPod Generation 6 120mb. Even my wife, who has a "tin ear" could hear the difference on the Sennheiser 650 headphones we have. I think the DAC in the Apple is way inferior to their older gen 5 one...but whatever it is, their audio quality has deteriorated.
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Nothing except the colors. The 4th Generation have a shinier finish in Silver, Orange, Blue, Green and Pink. The 5th Generation is much more matte, like the 2nd Generation of shuffle and comes in Blue, Green, Pink, Yellow, Purple, Silver, and Slate(my personal fave).
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I have two 5th gen shuffles and it doesn't work with either one..... don't purchase!
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What issues exactly? Everything works good for me. And about the sound if you are using or used to use mixers most of them uses transistors instead of sound cards. With sound card the sound it's not really crisp and not powerful enough. It's sounds way to compressed. Everything else you can't ask for more!! It makes your Dj skills really easy to perform ... It's saves all your cue points ... Loops... Etc. instead of create you loop every time on a track it saves it ... Next time you play the same track you'll have you loop there ready to use or not!!!