Monday 8 January 2007

iPod and iTunes

The battery keeps running flat on my iPod nano when not in use. Is this related to the lack of a switch off feature?

Also fiddly for quickly scanning through a track. Tends to keep altering the volume using the touch ring. can only reliably track slowly through a track. Annoying for those DJ mixes when I want to listen 30 minutes in.

iTunes does not properly categorise tracks and genres for music that is not commercial and not always in shop such as demos, DJ mixes and tracks converted from some CDs. It is also fiddly to manually organise music to directories/genres as it tends to sort some but not all tracks from artists to albums and some to an alphabetical list of singles. Changing track names individually can be annoying.

Also, I have heard that tracks downloaded from their store do not play on other mp3 players because of their proprietry mp3 format. Yet iPod will play most if not all other mp3 formats.

Otherwise great device and great innovation. Plug and play and automatic search by iTunes can save a lot of time. Shame Apple do not have above features and flexibility for more control for the user.

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