I've run into a bug in iTunes 7 with the 8GB Nano...
I use iTunes to manually manage my music, when I drag and drop my MP3 files from Windows Explorer onto the iPod file list in iTunes, it looks like it's copying the music (the free space decreases), but when it's done copying the free space increases and the files aren't on the iPod.
The only workaround is that I have to drop the files directly on the iPod icon in the devices list on the left. Anyone else have this problem?
So I can get the album art for all my music, by upgrading to iTunes 7?
Yes. You need an iTunes account, though.
Interestingly, if it doesn't get the art the first time, try again - and again - and again. I think each fetch operation cycles through a single store, so if one store doesn't have it, it'll look at another store. I'm not 100% sure about that, but that's what it appears to do.
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Well now, hold on, to be fair we have to acknowledge that the $249 is for 8 GB of Flash storage. I somehow doubt your 20GB Archos is that thin, light, or gets that same level of playback from the battery. ;-) The $249 for the 30 GB iPod would be a more fair comparison...
OK, you're right. Apples to apples and all that. :wink: The 30GB iPod and my Archos are in fact a better comparison.
Forget Archos for a minute though. I still question the price. Doesn't it confuse potential customers that Apple has two entirely different players for the same price? Here's this cool 8GB Nano, but right next to it is a different iPod that's only a little over twice the size, but plays videos (and a million other things) and has almost 4 times the capacity for the same price?
I just don't understand the mentality behind losing functionality to save a few square centimeters. :?
I just don't understand the mentality behind losing functionality to save a few square centimeters. :?
Right now, thin is in - just look at RAZR phones, Motorola Q, etc.
But in this case it's not just the dimensions. The nano comes in at less than 1/3 the weight of the 30 GB hard disk version and it has no moving parts so is great for working out. To me the nano is truly wearable for a vigorous workout - the full-size iPods are just heavy enough that it'll bug me flopping around, but the nano is light enough that I scarcely notice it.
I have both a nano and a full-sized (4G) iPod- the nano is my DAP on the go, and the full-sized one is the center of my home entertainment system (with as much lossless music as I can fit into 60 GB). If I need video on the go, I'll leave my iPod at home and take my PPC and watch VGA resolution Divx videos on a 4" screen via TCPMP.
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omg!! I thought I was reading things when I saw that! lol!
heh heh.. still a bit annoyed that the ipod still does not have a user adjustable equalizer other than "presets" and radio tuner built in.
Oh well..
ITunes 7 looks good.. though the new "download coverart" function is only to download the cover to the database right.. I dont think they embed cover art into the MP3 files themselves ? correct?
But in this case it's not just the dimensions. The nano comes in at less than 1/3 the weight of the 30 GB hard disk version and it has no moving parts so is great for working out. To me the nano is truly wearable for a vigorous workout - the full-size iPods are just heavy enough that it'll bug me flopping around, but the nano is light enough that I scarcely notice it.
Does anyone else remember the 80s? Remember when we all excercised wearing those giant yellow Sony walkmans? We were somehow just fine working out with them. Then CD players came along and they were even bigger. Even the Sony sport radio (the smallest portable music player available at the time) was larger than the current HD-based iPod.
By the way, not once would we have even considered paying $250 for any of these devices, no matter how small they got.
So saying you'd gladly pay more for less functionality because it's smaller and lighter just doesn't hold water for me. Thin may be in, but I still don't get it...
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