I’ve had my iPhone for a couple of days and I’ve been relatively happy with it, but like many first generation products, it’s going to have it’s bugs. Well, the first bug that I have to report is that the ipod feature has crashed on me a couple of times while I have been either listening to it or listening to it and using another feature on the iphone.
Fortunately I have a friend who’s a local genius for one of the Apple Stores and he told me that the main reason for that is because a lot of people tend to use mp3s not purchased from iTunes (hmm, i wonder where else then?). Since iPods and iPhones are made for itune songs, my friend suggests that I convert my entire library to AAC, which is the most iTunes friendly format. To do this:
1) Open iTunes
2) Go to File>Preferences (or Options if you’re on PC)
3) Go to the Advanced Tab
4) Select the Importing Tab
5) Under Import Setting, select AAC
6) Select a decent bitrate. I chose 192 if you’d like to know.
7) Now press OK and the preferences window will close.
Go to your iTunes Music Library and Select all your songs either with Control or Apple + A.
9) Right Click and select Convert Selection to AAC
10) Sync your iPhone and Everything should be running perfectly!
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can you post how to easily convert .ogg files to .mp3? i downloaded the soundtrack to Miss Saigon and I cant play it on my bloody ipod. Bah! i want to relive ‘nam 24/7!!
Damn, that seems like a gigantic pain in the ass - my library is 25K+, I’m not going to take the time to convert all of those tracks!
Plus, how many people actually use AAC compared to MP3?
personally . . it doesn’t happen to me enough for me to go through it either . . . . 60GB of music is a LOT of music to convert!
They should just call it the iCrash.
i think it was your Yanni that broke the phone
I figured i’d wait to get an iPhone for that reason but i highly doubt they’d fix that bug anytime soon. It just means more money for Apple…
yeah i think that’s why I’m waiting till v 2.
Did you actually try this? The is a totally bogus solution in my experience. I’ve run all generations of iPods through many hundreds of hours of non-AAC music without trouble, so the “iPods and iPhones are made for itune songs” rings false. If you do research on forums you’ll see people running into crashes running all AAC libraries. I have also had Safari crash many many times when I’ve had no music playing, so that crash isn’t caused by music. I even had it crash on Apple’s web site once, so don’t blame it on non-apple approved content.
When mine gets crashy I do a hard reboot (hold sleep for 5 seconds then slide.) Seems to clear it up for a couple days.
My iPhone was crashing a lot, so I removed EVERYTHING (all content including contacts) and it still crashed frequently in safari. I thought it might just be bad memory so I swapped it with a new iPhone at the Apple Store. No use - the new one still crashes frequently. Looks like Apple has a real lemon on it’s hands here…
You all continue to work out the bugs. I’ll get one once it’s perfect and they announce the 2.0 version that is compatible with ALL networks!
I’ve had 2 of them and they have both had the same issue, w/ the iPod and Safari (although that was the least of the problems wiith the 1st one). The dude at the Apple store thought it was corrupted data which I think is BS since I’ve only seen the known bugs with the new one. I restored both of them MANY times and still had problems. The fact is were just gonna have to sit back and wait for an update. They should be releasing the patch for the security issue soon so hopefully they’ll bundle it with that.
I actually have been having this same problem, my iphone crashes in may different apps mostly safari and the ipod though, I first thought it was a bug and restored it and did everything imaginable but after no permanent solution eventually got a loaner from apple unfortunately the loaner started to crash also i then realized it had to be something on my end, I thought it might be my gf labtop that we were syncing from so i waited to get my iphone back and then synced it from my computer without any music just contacts the problem didn’t occur for seven days then i transferred the music library onto a external hard drive and synced the music from my desktop computer to the iphone within 30mins from syncing the problem reappeared again, I then knew it had to be the music if i delete the library off and restore it to just contacts, pics, etc… no problem. I like many other people download mp3’s off limewire and believe this is the problem I actually thought of this solution and will try it and see if it works but just to clarify things in my case and possibly many others its definitely the music Good Luck to everyone