New iPod with old Dock?

My son has a new 30gb iPod Video. Since Apple cheaped out and didn't include a dock or charger, can he plug the new model into my 3rd gen touchwheel dock for charging? My dock is firewire, and I believe the new iPod is USB, but it appears the connectors match.
30gb iPod video Mac OS X (10.4.3)

As far as I know, the main difference in the dock is the width/thickness of the area surrounding the dock connector. Does the 30GB 5G come with anything to put into an older dock to make the fit more snug?
I'm not certain about the actual connector, but I believe that it should fit.
Another question is: with an older dock (3g, etc.) can you use the line out for video from the 5g ipod?

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Hi, this should be a quick one to solve... I have an old FireWire AC Charger from a 2nd (or 3rd?) Gen iPod I no longer use, and the original FW cable. The dock connector on the old FW cable fits my newer iPods (5.5G iPod Video and a Touch), can the FW AC charger be used to charger these newer USB-only iPods, or will it fry them?
If so, will it also work with a Nano? I want to get one for a friend who doesn't own a computer, so a wall charger will be their only way to charge (in which case I'll just by a new wall charger if the old FW one is incompatible).
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(Note: I don't need it to transfer data, just to charge)

Yes, you can charge new iPod off older Firewire chargers. Just no data transfer.
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I have a G4 eMac with USB 1 and,of course, firewire. The newer iPods have no firewire connection and are using USB 2. I know that USB 2 is backward compatible with USB 1 but it USB 1 is painfully slow for data transfer.
Is there any way to add USB 2 to an older eMac?
If I purchased an external HD with both FW and USB2 ports, could I attach the HD to the eMac with FW and then use the USB2 port on the external HD to attach a new USB2 iPod and get true USB2 performance.
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The USB 1.1 ports can't be upgraded. A dual-interface HD won't trick the computer into running faster, either; nor are there any Firewire-USB converters.
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Try:
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For Windows system, the typical location would be...
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then navigate to the artist folder then to the album folder.
You can always check where iTunes thinks the file is located by selecting the song in iTunes, do a Get Info on the track, then in the first tab/window where it shows the summary info on the track, at the bottom is a line "Where" and that will show the location that iTunes expects the file to be.
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Hi all - I have not been able to find an answer to this specific circumstance, so I'm hoping someone here can help... Here it is:
I have two Nanos (we'll call them "new" and "old"). All of the music that is on the "old" Nano is on my MacBook, in iTunes. I'm not switching computers, fyi.
Because I have thousands more songs on my computer than are on the Nano, I would like an easy method for putting all of the songs that are on the "old" device onto the "new" device (easier than manually locating them in iTunes and adding them to "new" Nano).
The solution might have something to do with syncing, I dunno. Should I select "sync music" on the "old" device? If so, what does that do and what is the next step for adding those exact songs to my "new" device? Whatever the answer, please spell it out for me. Thanks!

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Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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I have succumbed to the tempation of a new iPod with video. I have an old 3G iPod and a decent music library built up, including some ITMS stuff, in iTunes.
I presume it is straightforward to sync this with my new iPod? Will iTunes recognise the new iPod as a foreign user?
Any advice?

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good lord ... the 0x80040707 can sometimes be
caused by uninstalling software from a different user
account from which it was originally installed, or
installing a higher version of the software in a
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every now and then.)
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Is anyone successfully using their iPod with Universal Dock and the Logitech Harmony 880 remote? Does it need to be trained or does can you use the logitech software to program the remote?

Is anyone successfully using their iPod with
Universal Dock and the Logitech Harmony 880 remote?
Does it need to be trained or does can you use the
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My gf was having the same issues and also with a big echo every time I called her either from my 4S or even fron a land line as per other comments here. They told he to take it into the Apple store and they reset the software and now it's working fine.....so far.
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I just got an iPhone and was happy to see that it fit in my iPod with video docking station. But when I plug it in I get a message that says that this docking station was not meant to be used with the iPhone, and then it just syncs up and works fine with iTunes anyway.
So what's with the warning? Can the phone be damaged by the docking station? Should I be worried? And if there is nothing to worry about, why splash the warning?
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