How to tell it's a 5G iPod?

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How to tell it's a 5G iPod?

I've just bought a shiny new 30gb (supposedly 5G) iPod this evening, brought it home and loaded all my music. When playing music that should be gapless though there are definite gaps! (I had the new 8gb Nano just before this and there's a definite difference when playing the same music back!)

Is it possible that I've been sold a 4G model - is there some way to check?

And I'm reasonably certain there's no setting on the player to enable gapless playback, but have I missed something? The albums in iTunes are definitely set as gapless.

Thanks all,

Tom

MBP 15" 2.16ghz, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 2:11 PM

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Answer 1

zarakava

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Sep 20, 2006 2:13 PM in response to tomwynne

i think 5g is the video ipod, so can it play videos?

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Bryan Mick

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Sep 20, 2006 2:15 PM in response to tomwynne

What version is the firmware installed?

Go to SETTINGS > ABOUT

The gapless playback is included in the most recent version, so you may need to update it to use this feature.

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TomS64

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Sep 20, 2006 2:19 PM in response to tomwynne

I think you want to know if you have an enhanced 5G as oppose to the old 5G. The easiest way to distinguish them is by looking at the packaging to see if it has Johnny Depp on the box. Johnny Depp means it's an enhanced 5G.

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Jeff SD

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Sep 20, 2006 2:37 PM in response to TomS64

Both the older and the enhanced Gen 5 iPods play gapless music - the song must be gapless in the original recording. You can not change the tags in the information setting to enable it.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304362

"Gapless playback is always on in iTunes 7 or later unless the Crossfade feature is turned on. If Crossfade is on, only audio files that have the "Part of a gapless album" option checked and are capable of being played gaplessly will play with no gaps..."

"iPod does not support crossfade playback and only some iPod models support gapless playback. For those models that do, all files that support gapless playback are played gaplessly whether or not the "Part of a gapless album" option is checked.

Supported iPod models (make sure you have the latest iPod Software)

iPod nano (Second Generation)
Fifth Generation iPod
Fifth Generation iPod (Late 2006)"

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tomwynne Author

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Sep 20, 2006 2:46 PM in response to TomS64

Sorry I should have been more clear - TomS64 got it though... I was wondering if I had the 'Late 2006' 5G or the earlier. I found this page:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61688

... which suggests that serials ending WU9, WUA, WUB, or WUC are the new model. Mine ends V9M which would suggest that is isn't, but as per the post above I've checked the box and I have Johnnie Depp in 'Pirates' on the back of the box. So where does that leave me??

As for the gapless music, I'm referring to an album which is originally gapless and played gapless exactly as expected on a 2G 8gb Nano. It still doesn't play as gapless on the new player. Have I been sold an old model???

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tomwynne Author

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Sep 20, 2006 2:48 PM in response to tomwynne

Oh, and it has firmware v1.2.

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TomS64

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Sep 20, 2006 2:48 PM in response to tomwynne

You got a new enhanced 5G.

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tomwynne Author

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Sep 20, 2006 2:56 PM in response to TomS64

Why no gapless playback then? and why the variation in serial numbers from the linked apple page above?

Thanks for your help,

Tom

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tomwynne Author

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Sep 20, 2006 11:38 PM in response to tomwynne

Any further thoughts on the above - anyone?

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Sep 20, 2006 11:52 PM in response to tomwynne

since you are sure that it is firmware 1.2, the only other thing i could suggest to you would be to restore your ipod.. i know thats a big pain though having to get all your songs back on it.. and i still can't guarantee it would fix it..

maybe wait here and see what somebody else has to say about it..

sorry i can't help anymore..

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