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adpowers writes "Lots of updates today on the Apple front. First we have the iPod nano, which is an iPod photo-esque replacement for the iPod mini. It comes in 2 and 4 gig varieties and is half the thickness of the mini it replaces. A new iTunes is release as well, which looks similar to Mail.app. I'm not sure I like the cosmetic changes. It also touts an improved search bar, but I can't find an explanation of what that means. Finally, Apple, Motorola, and Cingular announced the ROKR E1, which has the iTunes on a cellular phone. (Theorized last week.) It syncs with iTunes just like an iPod." Coverage of the Apple news extravaganza available at The NYT, Forbes, Gizmodo, Mobiledia, and Macworld.
...well it just might :)
Yay me! ^^
Ah...now we know why Apple's been buying up flash memory in spades.
That iPod nano looks ridiculously slick. Heh, and although I imagine I'm going to have my geek card forcibly removed after saying this, my first thought upon seeing it was, "What happened to all the colors?" Granted, it's form over function, but judging by the amount of iPod minis that I've seen, people like the colors.
Well, fear not: iPod nano tubes: Colorful iPod nano Tubes fit like a glove and offer full Click Wheel control from the outside. (Actually, as someone whose iPod sports an impressive amount of scrapes, I think this is a good idea.)
That Apple, they think of everything. Now I'm going to go back to waiting for my Dalmation iPod nano tube.
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"ROKR E1"? Why didn't they call it an iPhone, probably the best name among all of Apple's products? Maybe they let Motorola, which usually prefers unpronouncable alphanumeric soup, pick the name.
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Nano spec says USB 2.0 only -- and no firewire -- this means I don't think I can plug it into my MDD PowerMac. :-(
No I am not a apple whore, I get the education discount (which they didn't ask for?). I was going to order a regular 20gig last week but knew something was coming out today so I looked, liked, liked price, and ordered.
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iPod nano, which is an iPod photo-esque replacement for the iPod mini
I can see strongbad promoting these now. "It's not just photo-esque. It's danger-esque."
Thick as a pencil and much more fun.1
1 Do not nervously bite iPod nano.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
With iTunes 5 also comes Quicktime 7 for Windows.
Yes, its flash. Look here http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/specs.html at the bottom Technical Specifications: iPod nano.
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."--Howard Zinn
Just yesterday I was reading about how crap Cingular service is. You'd think they would have just released the phone and allowed the customer to choose a carrier.
Yay me! ^^
No video. Thicker than a human hair. Lame.
The new search is kinda snazzy, type a few letters and you get a little bar that lets you narrow it down by all, music, audiobooks,pod casts, videos, booklets, etc etc, certainly helpful for those with large catalogs
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This thing replaces the ipod mini, no doubt, but really it's more the size/weight of a shuffle... very sweet. It's THINNER than the shuffle fer chrissakes!
.78 ounce
Size comparison:
Shuffle: 3.3 x 0.98 x 0.33
Nano: 3.5 x 1.6 x 0.27
iPod: 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.63
Weight comparison:
Shuffle:
Nano: 1.5 ounces
iPod: 5.9 ounces
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
It's been theorized? Awesome! I've been waiting for one of these that could play Ogg...
Because it's not an Apple product.
It's a Motorola/Cingular product that has an exclusive license.
(and regardless, according to the USPTO, the IPHONE trademark is live for at least two registered companies—both marks involve phones, natch— so Apple's claim to such a mark is tenuous)
The nano comes in both white and black (see here and click the "black" link under the picture). Gotta say that it does look pretty nice.
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Does iTunes 5 fix the issue where volume adjustment settings aren't transfered over to the iPod? A quiet song forces you to turn up the volume, and followed by a loud song, this can blow your eardrums! The only thing I truly HATE about my iTunes/iPod.
I think that I have just discovered an "undocumented feature" in iTunes 5 :
when "show duplicate songs" is selected from the edit menu, non-duplicate songs are displayed if the track name and artist are identical in both tracks. Surely it would be a better idea to calculate an md5 checksum or perhaps use CDDB data in order to prevent this.
I would have thought that this issue should be obvious...
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Press releases here, for those interested in more detailed information..
Apple iPod nano
Apple iTunes phone
Motorola ROKR
My iPod Mini is just so large, bulky, and thick! It's about time Apple did something to make audio players small and portable!
- Why can't you sync iTunes via BlueTooth, since the phone actually has BT? First the mini mouse, now this.
- Will this phone be a full iSync citizen, or at least as much as other Moto phones? via BT?
- Can you use this phone as a Cell modem? Via BT? And why is it not EDGE capable?
- Can you sync photos via iPhoto?
- Can you purchase ringtones via iTunes?
I wish this was more of an iPhone, with the above features, than just some phone with iTunes slapped on it. As it is, it looks pretty half-baked, and I'm sorry to see Apple endorse it. I think I'm holding out until v 2.0 at least.--
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Rather then a new take on the mobile phone Apple are simply peddling an average Motorola phone that just happens to be preloaded with an iTunes player. It doesn't even look any good (especially compared to the V3). They may as well have just made a java version of iTunes player.
:), I'd guess it still uses CF media but that's practically the entire height of the unit.
On the other hand iPod nano looks pretty cool (good in black as well), be interesting to see inside one of them (hopefully pictures should appear any moment
I think it detects what your OS is, and then shows either the mac or windows version. I'm on my mac mini right now, and the screenshot is of the mac version.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else detest the styling of the ROKR E1? If Motorola can release something as slick as the Razr (even if they can't spell it right), you'd think they'd be able to at least make it look nicer than some crap phone from three or four years ago. I personally think the iTunes phone would be better as a clamshell design, or some other, more crazy design I have yet to imagine... However, the phone seems to be multifunctional, allowing you to store music and data, to the tune (pun intended) of 512MB of total storage (from what I can gather from the FAQ) Apple definitely deserves props for the iPod nano. Wow, that thing looks amazing... Also, props to Apple for delivering what looks like a great new iTunes release.
I wonder how it will compare to the ipod shuffle.
I didn't believe it until I got one (as a gift) but the shuffle has the best audio quality I've heard short of an external DAC into an spdif stream. its noisy (biased transistors in output stage?) but it has actual bass and enough drive to power headphones without distorting.
if this nano has the same audio or better, it will blow the market away for those that CARE about sound as well as the features of the player.
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If Apple wants to be really shocking they should start supporting Linux. There is a growing market out there that they are just ignoring.
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Quicktime 7 without iTunes can be found here... http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone .html
...as the iPod?
'Cause if it can then I can use my computer to charge my phone and my current iPod car charger to charge the phone
Then I wouldn't have to buy any accessories!
"It's a tarp!" -- Dyslexic Admiral Ackbar
My experience with my daughter's Ipod Mini has not been overwhelmingly positive:
On Windows XP, syncing to it in ITunes (via USB) causes Windows to reboot about half the time.
On Linux, syncing more than a few songs at a time (in gtkpod) causes a bunch of hardware errors, resulting in the partition being set to read-only. (So I guess Linux is a little more robust in dealing with hardware problems.)
With the nano being so thin, they probably couldn't stack the screen on top of the jack. So it was either move the jack to the bottom or move the screen down.
If you look at what song is playing in iTunes, you'll see it is from the new Kanye West CD.
I wonder if Apple picked a song from that Artist based on the recent comments he made during the Hurrican Relief Fund?
Could just be that he has a new CD out, or the person making the page was listening to the CD at the time, but I love a good conspiracy theory
Damnit...I just got my stupid Shuffle. Now they come out with this for not much more money? I feel inadequate all of a sudden. :(
"How like you to drag your keyboard to a gun fight." - Aaron Bedard (BANE)
Not sure if this is true with other open-source DAAP sharing programs and servers, but at least with mt-daapd (not linking to avoid Slashdotting them, search Google for mt-daapd), iTunes 5.0 returns a "The shared music library 'name' is not compatible with this version of iTunes".
I assume there with be a workaround, but for the moment, don't upgrade if you rely on this functionality (like I do).
The fact that people continue buying these products over and over again seems to refute your argument.
If competitors are releasing music AND video players 'for cheaper', and not making money, maybe it means two things:
1) Bad product
2) No market
If the competitors make a bad product, then of course the only remainging good product (iPod) will win. Apple just has to wait, review the market, and keep designing until it has a good product, even if it's a couple years late. Would you rather have a bad product now, or a good one next year?
If there is no market, then what's the point?
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The new iTunes no longer has the brushed metal window. Is this the beginning of the end for brushed metal? I wouldn't be surprised to see all of Apple's apps move towards this new look by the time they release 10.5. My personal preference: good riddance brushed metal.
"Play Outside on Sunny Days." - Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
I mean look at Nintendo, they have released how many Gameboy Advance systems (3?) all with the same exact functionality.
They only released two that I know of, but I could just be out of the loop.
The GBA SP added functionality, like a built in rechargeable battery and backlit display, all at the same price as the previous model.
The iPod nano offers flash memory, increased battery life, a color display, ability to play photos, in a much smaller package. There's tons of added functionality.
while many, many competitors have been releasing music *and* video players for almost 4 years now *for cheaper than apple's music only players*..
I can release a cell phone the size of a VCR, have it play DVDs, DivXs, run various emulators, and do my taxes, that doesn't change the fact that it's poorly designed and not very attractive. Apple is about simplicity. If you want a swiss army knife MP3 player then there's manufactures catering to you, but you're a minority in that desire.
This release, despite the whole digit change, doesn't change this. This is all the more ironic since Tiger now ships with an integrated spoken user interface! Blind folks, as a generalization, are at least as passionate about music and technology as the rest of us. This is a real shame.
I paid the going retail price for a Windows screen reader and got a free Unix computer!
The ROKR will be available in Canada exclusively from Rogers Wireless, according to this Motorola Canada site. Too bad there isn't more detailed information though. Rogers Wireless' site has no information on the phone or its pending availability unfortunately.
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I am totally disappointed with the Moto phone.
- It is substantially ugly. The basic shape is OK, but then it has the vented sides and all sorts of useless depressions, lines and curves. I would have expected Apple to demand some quality ID out of Moto (and we know Moto can do it, the RAZR and upcoming SLVR are very hot).
- The dynamics of the phone market suck for releasing new technology. Phone handsets are way overpriced for the consumer and rely on those pesky contracts. Sure the ROKR looks OK now, but how is it going to look a year from now when better stuff is available and your locked into that contract? To me, this is a major problem with the cell phone market- there are numerous technology improvements going on IRT data rates, camera quality, wireless features, design, etc... but the carrier contract lockin puts a significant strain in consumer's ability to acquire such technology at a reasonable price.
- The capacity on the ROKR sucks. 100 songs? That's less then 512mb. If your going to lock people into an MP3 playing cellphone for 2 years, give them some real capacity and/or an SD expansion slot. Hell, the slot doesn't even need to be readily accessible, throw it behind the battery (because I don't know if iTunes can manage an iPod device with removable storage) so people can upgrade as they see fit.
- It looks huge. I don't get it how they can make a tiny cellphone (again, the RAZR and it's upcoming SLVR brother) and a tiny MP3 player (the Nano and the Shuffle), but when you throw these devices together, you end up with a product that is bigger the the stand alone components tapped together even though the most space hogging portions are combined (buttons, enclosure).
Apple gets how to design a product and Motorola, while they have had some success, really needs to let Apple take the lead on ID/Product design. Moto should focus on the wireless tech, dealing with the FCC and cell carriers and manufacturing.
That Apple, they think of everything. Now I'm going to go back to waiting for my Dalmation iPod nano tube.
It's called a Dogcow. Moof.
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OK, so the display is color. However, if I'm interested in a music player, want music. I see the nano as a step backwards because the 4GB mini was $199, so I either get half the storage for the same price, or I pay $50 more for that 4G.
My bluetooth enabled car not only linking to my phone to give me handsfree capabilities, but also streaming audio directly to the stereo system.
BMW has (at least) one model car that interfaces with your ipod, so the thought isn't that far fetched.
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I'm so ready to buy that iPod nano. The second it supports Vorbis.
Come on, guys. ALL my music is in Vorbis. Help me out here.
-Peter
You make a very good point. I have lots of songs that would be "false duplicates" because they are alternative versions of the same song by the same artist (live album vs. studio recording, etc.)
Of course, calcing an MD5 would not find duplicates that are actually two differents rips of the same song, say at different rates or two downloads from eDonkey of the same song, etc. But it would find cases where the file got accidentally duplicated. Like if you have to move your music collection onto another disk or something.
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I'm not sure of the speed of the flash memory in these things but how long before photographers start buying these things to strip the CF cards?
One word - Never.
Why? Because any self respecting photographer will not murk around with hacks (remember, you still have to provide the interface - be it compact flash, etc. soldering required) when near 100% reliability is needed - i.e. in their work.
Most photographers I know, myself included, will spend extra cash on memory based on its perfomance and reliability. So destroying nanos is not going to be popular at all.
Just my 2 cents.
Which means:
- Transflash card. It's really tiny, the size and thickness of my pinky nail
- Tri-band
- USB 2.0, and you get to choose between it exposing the flash card as a USB disk device, or a modem. Cable included
- Stereo speakers. It's really cool to hold it just about 20-30cm from your face and hear pretty good stereo sound
- Earphones
- Bluetooth, and yes, you can copy MP3's that way too
- Groovy multi-coloured lights on both sides of the phone
- Speakerphone
- Camera with a powerful led instead of a flash. Doubles as a flashlight
And the downsides- Sluggish user interface
- Blurry 640x480 camera. Taking into account the previous point, when you press "capture," you get to wait 2 seconds for the snapshot to be taken
- Buggy. Crashes on you, especially when the battery is low
- Really bad mpeg-4 playback. The user interface stops responding when it's playing. Sound may crap out. It will only do a bitrate so low that the picture has severe compression artifacts
- Limited functionality in BlueTooth. The only decent BlueTooth phone I've ever seen is a SonyEricsson
- No voice recording (duh), but I'm under the impression that that's a hidden feature that you can enable with a hack
Of course, the specs of the ROKR may vary, and the MP3 navigation is beyond a doubt better than on the E398, but it won't be far off.In development, but coming soon...
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Along with everything else in QT 7, iTunes now allows you to encode AAC in VBR mode. FINALLY!
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
A public traded company, must (yes must) maximize the profit of its shareholders.
False. Even without clarifying your statement to include "legal profit", other concerns can be placed above the interests of the shareholders as long as they are clearly communicated (usually in the bylaws of the corporate charter).
Just because most (almost all) companies choose to put profit above all other concerns doesn't mean that all companies do. Or should.
Regards,
Ross
I felt a tinge of regret for a nano second after seeing the iPod phone release. What's the big deal? My Treo 650 plays video, it displays pictures, it plays mp3 files (I have a 512mb card stuffed into it and could get bigger ones pretty easily), it takes pictures (not great, just VGA, but nice for a phone), and it takes movies w/ sound, which have been a nice addition to my personal blog or my family (mostly pictures of the chilluns). Oh yeah, it also works as a PDA and a phone.
I don't see why the iPod phone is that big a deal. The Treos have been able to play mp3s for a while now. Too bad palm didn't name them r0x0rz or whatever. Apple is so about image.
Give me a Treo any day of the week.
Lots of petrified grits
Buy iPod nano.
Buy 5 cents of sticky velcro.
Attach to existing phone.
Pros:
Listening to tunes won't drain your phone battery.
Doesn't cost 250 USD (only 200).
Doesn't tie you to Cingular for 2 years.
About as thick as older phone models.
Holds 5 times the songs.
Can be undone at any time.
Cons:
Applying sticky substance to shiny new iPod.
Everyone will point and laugh.
I'm sorry, but was that a comment or a press release? It's a little hard to judge from here.
Not that I'd be one to accuse the indefectible Apple of astroturfing, no, nothing like that.
Speaking of which, shouldn't the iPod Nano be called the iPod Micro? I mean they just skipped a SI measurement didn't they?
Are you suggesting there is such thing as a mini-meter or a mini-gram?
Anm
How hard is it for Apple to give iTunes anti-aliased corners like every single other window in OSX? As if the old jaggies weren't bad enough, now they've just given up and squared them off! (not consistent with any other style in OSX, including the new plastic-look Mail.app). Even something as custom and cross-platform as RealPlayer manages it.
In general I understand Apple motivation for adding this new style - brushed metal is getting overplayed, and for good reason generally since it allows custom controls and layouts to be integrated in a nicer way than with aqua - but I think it's really badly done. The only nicely done plastic app I've seen so far is Camino (Mail.app and this new iTunes are travesties)...
I just always wanted to do that.
And, one other precious gem from the original...
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I don't want to haul around a phone, MP3 player, camera, PDA, notebook etc.
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what I want is one device, the size of my cell phone that combines all the
features of these devices.
what I want in this device:
size of my current cellphone (Audiovox cdm-9900)
cell phone features at least as good as current + mp3 ringtones
2MP 3x optical zoom camera w/ VGA/30fps movie mode
industry standard flash memory card/data in industry standard storage format
read and write files on flash card using standard tools in windows,
linux and macos
play MP3 and mpeg/mp4/divx (at VGA/30fps when driving remote display)
(limitation to proprietary formats unacceptable, but support for proprietary
formats in addition to standard formats desirable)
PDA capabilities equal to palm pilot/zaurus/WINCE (assume primary data
input by keyboard in desktop mode)
wireless keyboard/mouse/display/headphone/microphone/netwo
minimum 48 hours standby battery life/4 hours active use time (remote
desktop/mobile mode)
USB master/slave capability using standard cables
I want to be able to access _all_ data on this device from a usb/wireless
connected system as if I were looking at a hard drive/network drive
beyond solitaire/free cell/tetris/minesweeper level gaming, I dont care
about gaming performance.
graphics performance equivalent to first gen radeon is sufficient.
I expect that there are 3 primary usage modes: mobile, remote and primary
desktop
mobile usage model:
in this mode, this should operate like a cell phone, MP3 player or camera
like a full function single purpose device for each of these uses. As a PDA
it would primarily be used for data retrieval as opposed to input, for anything
beyond trivial data input (on the level of what you would input into a cell
phone) it is ok to assume a wireless or USB keyboard will be used (i.e.
handwriting recognition not required/useful) the form factor of the divice
should not be comprimized in the false belief that a big display is needed.
the display on my cdm-9900 is more than sufficient.
with a secondary battery pack and set of display glasses, it should be possible
to watch two complete feature length VGA/30fps movies in this mode (think
flying Boston to LA)
remote desktop usage model:
in this mode, the user is primarily expecting functionality equivalent to
a high end PDA/ultra portable laptop. the keyboard would probably be a
wireless thumbboard or a rollup usb keyboard, the display would preferrably be
a wireless head mounted display (HUD-glasses). external networking
capabilities might be non-existant, or limited to analog cell phone bandwidth,
so internal processing capabilities must be able to fulfill the minimums for
this kind of use.
primary desktop usage model:
I want to just carry the device in my pocket, when I get to work, drop it
on my desk, have it recognize my keyboard, display and mouse and start driving
them. I want to be able to do everything I do on my desktop computer in this
mode. I expect that this will require remote processing to provide the
CPU horsepower necessary, but the UI will be displayed and driven here
(X11 terminal style, but once I've done initial setup, I don't want to have to
think about it. this should work from the other side of the world).
I expect it needs to be on the charger for best performance in this
mode
what's missing to accomplish this:
the biggest piece of missing technology for this application is wireless
capable monitors and really useable display glasses. by useable, I mean glasses
that work like the glasses I wear today, but also can be used as a computer
display. other than the weight issue and some manufacturing issues, the tech
is here today with an LCD film overlay laminated onto the glasses lens or a
projector/refractor model.
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What if iTunes 5 is on an encapsulated runtime?
I assumed all the other versions were kind of doing that.
I'm holding out for the Femto.
iPod Femto: the first MP3 player to be injected directly into your bloodstream!
Free, legal music for iTunes users.
First Apple released the iPod, then the iPod Mini. Now there's the iPod Nano.
And last year, Apple introduced the Mac Mini.
<joke>Does this mean we should expect the Mac Nano sometime next year?</joke>
.... but does the phone support music on hold? :)
And, of course, no Ogg (again!).
And of course, there's still no point to including Ogg Vorbis in the iPod. The number of additional sales that Apple would get from people who are emotionally committed to a particular file format isn't even a rounding error in a monthly sales report.
-jcr
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I just installed iTunes 5 and am still able to play songs that I unlocked with JHymn.
And, yes, they're songs I paid for (or, Pepsi paid for them, I suppose) and unlocked for legitimate reasons (primarily so I could listen to them at work on my Linux machine).
1) Dock Connector: That's what Apple calls it, it's really just power, data and audio connections put into one plug (the connector also has a line-out ability) It's a multifunction port and when Apple first put it in iPods, the only thing out there for it was the DOCK. So that's what they called it but now you can hook up the camera connector, FM transmitters, all sorts of stuff. If you've bothered to ever use an iPod you'd know the cable that comes with it has USB or Firewire on one end, and the dock connector on the other end for the iPod OR Dock (the Dock is pretty much just a nice passthru that stands the iPod up)
2) Go into iTunes, then iPod options. Click "Enable Drive Usage" wow... my iPod is now a drive under Windows AND Mac, and I've seen it done with Linux. Unless you're touching the files needed for the music player, the iPod is simply a USB hard drive. Shut up troll.
3) And why should they bend over backwards for your measly $300 for their iPod when you're too stubborn and arrogant to support a popular standard. I don't bitch at Sony about where my copy of Sin City on BetaMax is.
Wait and see all you want. You won't buy one. People just like to bitch about something they can't have or can't afford.
Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
Just tested them (Windows version):
iTunes 5 rebuilds the music library, so you might be unable to revert to iTunes 4.9.
iTunes 5 has a new interface look, and it automatically use the language set up in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, under the "Regional Options" tab. It seems clever, but it is not since this setting is used to define the default currency, time format, etc. NOT the default language of the GUI. This setting exists in Windows XP but does not appear on regular consumer versions (only on Corporate ones, when a Microsoft MUI extension is installed). Yes, it's stupid since other OS like MacOS X let you switch the language of the entire interface even on the cheapest Mac you can get, but it's the way Microsoft did it. The only right way to define the UI language is to do it on a per-app basis. Which means : Add a bloody "Language" options to the iTunes preferences instead of trying to play the smart guy. I have an English version of Windows and my Regional Options are set to French, but I'd like iTunes to be in ENGLISH like the rest of the UI.
iTunes 5 still not support OGG.
iTunes 5 is unable to read correctly some very old AIFF files I still have in my Library (by "old", I mean "from my Atari ST": 12,538Khz 8 bit mono). QuickTime 7 opens them perfectly and it worked with iTunes 4.9.
QuickTime 7 is a real pain in the ass. I mean it. First, if you registered QuickTime 6, you need to pay again to register QuickTime 7. The player has the exact same limitations than the previous versions: it's unable to open files which have Unicode filenames or filenames that are >31 characters. Yes, exactly like on MacOS 9! Furthermore, the very convenient menus to work with tracks (delete tracks, enable tracks, extract tracks etc) disappeared. Now you must open the Movie Properties dialog, go to the correct tab, enable or disable the track(s), go back to the movie window, work on the track(s), go back to the Movie Properties dialog, etc. I use QuickTime Pro mostly to correct the movies I do with my little camera without recompression (the sound is delayed by 1 sound frame), now with this version it's became a real torture. By the way, if you use any keyboard shortcut of the Pro version (for example Ctrl-F for Fullscreen) but have the basic player only, you get a message asking if you want to register. It seems very clever too, except that some movies I made use QuickTime scripts associated to some keyboard shortcuts... like Ctrl-F. Guess what's happening ?
I've always been a big supporter of QuickTime, hoping that QuickTime 7 would be the same leap for the Windows versions that it was for the OS X version of QuickTime 6... I guess I had too much expectations...
i went to go see this motorola/ipod phone at webster hall tonight in NY.. all in all, cool but very very sluggish.. all the demo booths had phones with roughly 5 or 6 albums on them, and just that alone drastically slowed down the display. plus they didn't have any instructions, or tell anyone that to get the phones to play music you had to disconnect them from their laptop stations, a very bad move. this place was full of music writers that couldn't get passed the "Do not Disconnect Screen" to make the thing do what it was actally supposed to do. But they did have free drinks, which put most people in a really good mood.. Also, a really cheasy speech by motorola's head of marketing. i'm sort of suprised Apple has gotten behind something so sluggish. in the time it takes to load up one song from the main screen, i can grab a real ipod from my other pocket and play whatever i want to hear. someday it might be a nice little gadget, but not now, not sure why either but definately not right now...
"I have the 5Gig Seagate Pocket drive" ok, one of those, they're nice and avg $140
.5" stack of index cards and still fits in a pocket while holding a few times as much as pocket drives and minis. The other option is a full sized ipod, $300 for the 20gb, or a used older smaller one if you can find it, and has a battery so a sudden loss of power shouldn't happen. The only other 5GB+ I know of are the high capacity CF cards, $665 for 8gb, also at Newegg.
3.5" drives use a lot of power, and should have their own power cord. 2.5" drives use less so they can be usb/bus-powered. The only time I've seen problems is when the PC/Mac they're connected to has an underpowered power supply, the generic or older Dells and similar or if too many unpowered usb devices are in use. I've had my generic 2.5" case with a 10GB IBM travelstar for over a year with no problems.
5gb and 8gb are on the small side for 2.5" drives and don't seem to exist in the form of pocket drives yet. Newegg has external drive cases for about $15 and the smallest 2.5" is 30gb for $61, you can probably find a 10 or 20GB elsewhere. It won't be as small as your 3" round pocket drive, 3x5x.5" the size of a
I hope that was helpful.
F7 doesn't work, ignore spelling and grammar
The iPod mini has never been flash, period, end of story, never will be. The iPod shuffle was the only flash iPod before the iPod nano.
People get confused about this because the microdrive in the mini speaks the CompactFlash protocol, but it is a spinning platter disk all the same.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
They already sell music videos, but the new search sure seems to be paving the way to a full-fledged video store. Why else would you really need to distinguish between audio and video search results unless they were expecting people to be seeing a lot of video in iTunes.
Come on Apple, let us buy TV shows!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It is a real legitimate question to ask: why do people feel it is fine for Apple to do these things, and anathema for MS to do similar things? Why, for example, if MS were to start taking people to court for running Office under Wine, would there be a universal outcry, when if Apple starts taking people to court for buying and running X on Dells, an awful lot of people here would applaud?