Well, after 10 months of fun, my iPod has had too much of it. It’s manifesting some weird symptoms and I have ordered a service on it. As I write this, it’s doing a hard disk check that I never asked for, and it’s not the first time that’s happened.
The chief problems are
* the battery not holding a charge OR the batter indicator acting up. Hard to tell which, though I think the battery has lost some effectiveness.
* it stops playing in the middle of a track. I can advance to the next track, then return to the other one, and all is well. Sort of.
So now I’m waiting for the box to arrive so I can send it off.
I’m glad I registered it online when I bought it: otherwise I might have to track down proof of purchase information to get it taken care of under warranty.
Since I’ll never see this one again (they don’t return the same unit: you get a new one or a refurbished one), I’ll be getting a case for it to prevent it getting as scratched up as this one is.