How to Increase the battery life of your ipod

An ipod's battery life should last up to three years (500 cycles), but most people only get about a year and a half out of their battery. Here's some tips to increase your battery life by decreasing the demand on your battery

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• ipod

1. Don't let the battery become dead and discharge completely. Charge your battery at least once every three weeks to keep it from dying.

2. Reduce the demands on the hard-disk by playing songs from an album or playlist instead of skipping around. Songs which are put into an album or playlist are cached together.

3. Use mp3 or AAC files instead of WAV or AIFF files. WAV and AIFF files are uncompressed, so therefore are bigger causing the hard-disk to work harder than it needs to.

4. Minimize your backlight usage. In settings under backlight timer you can decrease the time the backlight is on. You can also just turn it off.

[PearlsWisdom]

on 5/25/2009 Good tips, worth a try.