Review: iPod shuffle

[alexandr]

B&W; you may use an app calles iVolume to increase the volume of each song/record/your library. this way you wont have to run it trough audio hijack(or was it wiretap) to get the levels raised.. ivolume is a bit time consuming if you have a big collection, but at least it runs automaticly, meaning you may put it to work over night or something. using your option, trough wiretap, sounded ALOT more timeconsuming, though..

you find it at versiontracker.

alex.

[chornbe]

Scott, thanks for the info. I had actually bought a 40gb iPod when I bought my iBook. Was out at lunch time and picked them up then headed back to work. Returned the iPod unopened on the way home. $400 was just too much to pay for an MP3 player regardless of the uberkool factor. And when I'm not actively mobile (sitting at work, sitting at home, on the train, etc), my iBook *IS* my iPod. I'd only want a more portable unit for when I'm walking, hiking, riding my motorcycle (which would worry me with an actively spinning hard drive in a regular Pod anyway), etc.

The shuffle has been holding my eye since Steve's Keynote speech.

Thanks to your very real-world review, concerns and info, you've convinced me to go ahead and get one. And $149 sits WAY better with me than $400. But that's just me

[blue&whiteman]

Originally Posted by alexandr

B&W; you may use an app calles iVolume to increase the volume of each song/record/your library. this way you wont have to run it trough audio hijack(or was it wiretap) to get the levels raised.. ivolume is a bit time consuming if you have a big collection, but at least it runs automaticly, meaning you may put it to work over night or something. using your option, trough wiretap, sounded ALOT more timeconsuming, though..

you find it at versiontracker.

alex.

thanks a bunch man. never heard of that app before. gonna d/l it now.

[DJ Rep]

I too have got an ipod shuffle and it's great so easy to use and so convienient when your out and about, there is just one improvement that I would like apple to implement, it would be very easy, just requiring a reflash of the rom on the shuffle like they do with the software updates. I have a 1GIG shuffle and I find that this is enough space to store several albums and so instead of using autofill I tend to chuck loads of whole albums on their in album order, now what I think would be a great idea and would totally remove the need for ever wanting a screen would be that if while on pause you pressed skip track twice, instead of jumping songs it would just to the next album, it could see where the next album was from the tags on the AAC Files. the reason I say that it should be on pause first is because some people may want to skip 2 tracks in quick succession but I don't think anyone would want to skip tracks while the shuffle is on pause, and most people know each album well enough to figit around 10-15 songs to find the right one in an album. What do you guys think, I was thinking of suggesting this to apple, how would I go about doing that?
Cheers

[Ceroc Addict]

Originally Posted by DJ Rep

I too have got an ipod shuffle and it's great so easy to use and so convienient when your out and about, there is just one improvement that I would like apple to implement, it would be very easy, just requiring a reflash of the rom on the shuffle like they do with the software updates. I have a 1GIG shuffle and I find that this is enough space to store several albums and so instead of using autofill I tend to chuck loads of whole albums on their in album order, now what I think would be a great idea and would totally remove the need for ever wanting a screen would be that if while on pause you pressed skip track twice, instead of jumping songs it would just to the next album, it could see where the next album was from the tags on the AAC Files. the reason I say that it should be on pause first is because some people may want to skip 2 tracks in quick succession but I don't think anyone would want to skip tracks while the shuffle is on pause, and most people know each album well enough to figit around 10-15 songs to find the right one in an album. What do you guys think, I was thinking of suggesting this to apple, how would I go about doing that?
Cheers

Suggested just this very thing a couple of weeks ago via the Apple feedback page (www.apple.com/feedback), except I proposed volume up/down to move through playlists.

Kap

[HoZ]

wow every body where i live says it is crap(windows users, PAH!!!)
but you changed my mind... im getting one... w00t!!!!