Photos take forever to view on ipod

Why do the photos that I have added to my ipod take
forever to load and view on my ipod. My friend has a
4th gen ipod photo and they appear right away. I
want to show pictures to my family and friends but
who wants to wait 15 minutes to be able to see them.
Its ridiculous! Does anyone know why or can help me
out? Could my 60g video ipod be defective?
hmm it could be defective, i have personally never had this problem, or known anyone that has, they usually load right away. It could be that your photos are to big, so they take a long time to load, or you have to many photos, other than that i have no idea

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I see other people complaning about similare problem long before, but I never had that problem.
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I'm sorry to say this, but iTunes performance is a joke. It's not just syncing pictures: whenever I plug-in my iPod, the iTunes UI will freeze for about 20 secs. Note: not the OS freezes, just iTunes. The photo synchronization feature is simply unusable. What's the point of having 30GB of space, if I it takes weeks to fill them?
And please: don't tell me to get a different OS. First of all, every single piece of software works like a breeze on my machine, except for iTunes, whose usability reminds me of the good old days when you could not use your PC while printing. Secondly, if I spend about 300 bucks on a device like an iPod and the manufacturer claims it will work with my OS, I EXPECT it to do so, nothing less.
That said, I waited for the next iTunes update to fix these issues. Now that I have installed it, and NOTHING has changed, I'm quite upset. Stories about unacceptable performance have been around the blogosphere for months now.
Dear Apple, I don't need snazzy new iPhone or TV features. I simply want the existing, advertised features to work as expected. Now.
Dennis

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Why do photos take so long to sync with my iPod touch?

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Vmondo--
A couple of items, one of which has already been mentioned: Picture size. Another is picture type; jpegs seem to load faster.
iOS4 has several new bells and whistles, which may affect things. Things like folders, multitasking, etc. also consume processing speed. The iPod isn't like my MacBook which processes things really quickly. It should; it has more processing capability.
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1. I tried answering this above.
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does photo stream take up space on my iPod?

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