2 Hour IPod Battery Life?

I just let them play one after another I get about 2 hours of play.
cugina wrote on :

I bought a 15G Ipod last week and the manual sez the battery life on a full charge should be 8 hours. I have installed 7G of mostly 3 minute tunes (almost 3000) and when I just let them play one after another I get about 2 hours of play. If I only listen for an hour I do turn it completely off.

What gives? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bad battery?

Thanks. Sarah

Michael Anderson replied on :

That doesn't sound right.

Shorter tunes, played in uninterrupted succession, should be a best case scenario. The iPod can pre-cache to RAM and spin down the disk.

I was getting the full ~10 hours on my first-gen 5GB iPod, and get ~8 on my 40GB model. I tend to play longer songs, but that should be worse.

Mike

"cugina" lamoglieprima@redacted.invalid wrote in message news:BCBBA000.26BC%lamoglieprima@redacted.invalid

I bought a 15G Ipod last week and the manual sez the battery life on a full charge should be 8 hours. I have installed 7G of mostly 3 minute tunes (almost 3000) and when I just let them play one after another I get about 2 hours of play. If I only listen for an hour I do turn it completely off.

What gives? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bad battery?

Thanks. Sarah

Hugh Chaloner replied on :

cugina lamoglieprima@redacted.invalid wrote:

or is this a bad battery?

Thanks. Sarah

Sounds like a bad battery - have a look at

www.ipodlounge.com

and see if there are suggestions.

HC

P M Evans replied on :

Was the backlight on? That will kill a battery faster than anything.

"cugina" lamoglieprima@redacted.invalid wrote in message news:BCBBA000.26BC%lamoglieprima@redacted.invalid

I bought a 15G Ipod last week and the manual sez the battery life on a full charge should be 8 hours. I have installed 7G of mostly 3 minute tunes (almost 3000) and when I just let them play one after another I get about 2 hours of play. If I only listen for an hour I do turn it completely off.

What gives? Am I doing something wrong or is this a bad battery?

Thanks. Sarah