iPod Mini problems....
Discussion
Girlfriend had an iPod Mini.
Just recently it started thinking it has less memory than it does. The iPod shows it has 3.7GB Capacity and 1.3GB available.
However, iTunes can't fit all the music in her library on it. The iTunes library is 2.84 GB, yet when it gets to 2.4GB it says the iPod is full.
She has nothing on it other than Music.
She has reinstalled iTunes, cleared her iPod, we've looked on the Apple website but can't find anything of use.
Anyone got any ideas?
TIA
Stuart.
Just recently it started thinking it has less memory than it does. The iPod shows it has 3.7GB Capacity and 1.3GB available.
However, iTunes can't fit all the music in her library on it. The iTunes library is 2.84 GB, yet when it gets to 2.4GB it says the iPod is full.
She has nothing on it other than Music.
She has reinstalled iTunes, cleared her iPod, we've looked on the Apple website but can't find anything of use.
Anyone got any ideas?
TIA
Stuart.
The source of this problem is the true definition of a kilobyte: 1024 bytes, not 1000.
1024 is a much nicer number in the binary system than 1000, so this approximation was made many years ago.
This wasn't such a big deal in the past, when hard drives didn't get much bigger than a few hundred megabytes or so. But now, in the days of multi-gigabyte drives, people are really noticing the difference.
The marketing people use the "proper" defintion of "kilo": 1000, not 1024. This is because it results in a bigger number of bytes. So there is always a descrepancy.
Some people try to explain away the lost space by saying "that's just what happens when you format it", which is incorrect.
I think they have pushed this marketing trick to the limit. People are noticing the difference. Companies should immediately start using the correct (i.e. 1024 based) defintion of kilo/mega/gigabytes when specifying drive sizes.
however, if you only have 2.84 gb of music it should still fit on the ipod. try formatting the ipod to clear it completely.
1024 is a much nicer number in the binary system than 1000, so this approximation was made many years ago.
This wasn't such a big deal in the past, when hard drives didn't get much bigger than a few hundred megabytes or so. But now, in the days of multi-gigabyte drives, people are really noticing the difference.
The marketing people use the "proper" defintion of "kilo": 1000, not 1024. This is because it results in a bigger number of bytes. So there is always a descrepancy.
Some people try to explain away the lost space by saying "that's just what happens when you format it", which is incorrect.
I think they have pushed this marketing trick to the limit. People are noticing the difference. Companies should immediately start using the correct (i.e. 1024 based) defintion of kilo/mega/gigabytes when specifying drive sizes.
however, if you only have 2.84 gb of music it should still fit on the ipod. try formatting the ipod to clear it completely.
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