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The Latest iPod Assassination Attempt
Insani-CTO writes "David Pogue at the New York Times reviews Samsung's new Z5, the latest attempt at an 'iPod killer' He gives it a pretty favorable review, though doesn't quite count the Nano as dead quite yet. From the piece: 'The Z5, then, will not cause any discernible dip in iPod market share. It does, however, deserve to be a hit for Samsung. For someone who wants a Nano that's not a Nano, it's a close enough match in looks, sleekness, capacity and crystal-clear software design. In fact, if iPod didn't loom over every conversation as the screamingly obvious point of comparison, the Z5 could be the next little thing.'"
most annoying flash movie ever
I have seen many posts wher Ipod users rave about how Itunes remembers what tracks they listen to and rank or suggest playlist based on your listening habits.
Is this not a feature of Itunes?
I said I didn't buy an Ipod, you're assuming I haven't even seen one? I have seen and used them, the finger "wheel" pad. I haven't used Itunes much, except for setting it up for a friend or two.
I have experienced plugging in a few Nanos in to PCs. It does not show up as a hard drive. It's an Ipod wihtout drivers until you install Itunes. Perhaps Apple has changed this? Can anyone else confirm this?
If it worked this way, you would me able to use any media manager with your Ipod. Can you?
Can you plug your Ipod in and use windows media player/winamp(without hacked plugin)/music match to sync tunes?
This gets modded 4: Funny ?
All he did was copy and paste a statement from the original article.
Slashdot is garbage. No wonder people are all on digg.
I just by chance decided to check slashdot and lo! its still crap.
Over to digg.com now.
Slashdot is history
The Nano, like all other iPods, absolutely works as a mass storage device, with or without drivers
Fresh out of the box, an iPod does not have any flash-drive features. You have to turn those on in the iTunes software for your device.
I don't know about Nanos, but I know it works on Shuffles and regular iPods.
So that's a NO, NO and a YES.
I'm not sure what the reasons are for your confusion.
See above.
You cannot manage the music tracks as if they were files, however. This is a choice made by most manufacturers because the file/folder paradigm does not fit well into a music player interface, where people want to select songs by artist one day and by album the next. The database format is supported by numerous programs besides iTunes, though.
Sorry? Most manufacturers? You can't snow the snowman bud. I have used many, many, types of flash based and hard drive based players and I have yet to see one, aside form the Ipod, that doesn't store tunes in a normal file format. The file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface? Who says a music player couldn't cache all of this tag/usage info into a 50k file and leave the files system, the one that everyone knows, the one that is compatible with every OS on earth, as is.
Do you really think the Ipod uses a propritary file system/format purely because the file/folder paradigm doesn't fit well into the music player interface?