My wife recently gave me an iPod she received as a gift and it is pretty cool. I'm not a gadget geek though and have some questions.

1. Will it lose all its memory of songs when the battery goes dead and therefore I need to keep all the CD downloaded music on the computer to re-load?

2. I'm aware of the 18 month life expectency of the battery but has this issue been resolved by Apple?

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