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Any way to expand iPod nano storage?
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 / iPod / iTunes
My husband bought me an iPod nano just before the video capable iPod came out. I would like to listen to books on my nano, but 4G is not enough. Is there anything I can do to enable it to play a book… any peripheral made that expands its capabilities?
There is no way to add storage space to a nano that I know about. Files on an iPod must be in a fixed location to be searched and played, so adding extra storage space outside of the iPod would be difficult.When you say that 4 GB of space is not enough, are you speaking about your need to listen to multiple books between visits to your computer? I own a 2 GB nano, and it holds days of spoken audio. If you are getting Books-On-CD and encoding them in iTunes you may have the wrong bit rate selected for those books. In the preferences select the “Advanced” icon and then the “Importing” tab. Set the “Import Using:” pulldown menu to use the AAC Encoder. Then change the “Setting:” pull down menu to “Custom.” In the new window, change the Stereo Bit Rate to “64 kbps” and the Channels to “Mono.” Also check the checkbox for “Optimize for voice.” Click the OK button on both open windows and then start importing your books from the CD. That should create a file about a quarter the size they were before.Hope that makes that gift work for you.
