New "Improved" iPods on the way (30GB, 80GB), aluminum Nano

[0roo0roo]

so the scan is for gapless tags? or does it guess at what is a live album?

didn't seem to automatically tag mine. hard to tell in itunes since it already has crossfading playback. if you select all the tracks and get info you can check off gapless album. i usually play random so doesn't help or hurt me much.

streaming video of presentation, link probably still works
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/sep_2006/event/index.html

Originally posted by: arod

Originally posted by: NFS4
Holy Sweetness. The "Quick Album" view in iTunes 7 is awesome. The other album view is a rip of WMP11 though.

im not a big fan of the quick album view... it looks very gimmicky and will be useless trying to find an album in a huge music collection.

and yes the other one is almost a direct copy of wmp11 and only has one view where wmp11 does all its views based on albumart. (the digital stacks)

i think this album view thing was something apple bought. it existed before as a stand alone plugin?

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: UNCjigga
*sigh* no wi-fi, no widescreen, no touch-screen interface. Sorry folks, the current form-factor lives on for now.

Watching the news at Gizmodo now.

WiFi on a media player?? Why?

It's been rumored along with multi-player gaming and "iTunes Store-to-go" access. Besides, Zune has wi-fi.

therees already a player with wifi. its pretty lame though, perfect illustration why its not that important really.

 

[0roo0roo]

the album art is pretty when it works. 600x600? images. bad thing is it doesn't seem to save the files in the album directory you can right click copy the image in itunes and paste as bmp, not great. covers are nice and crystal clear unlike the scans of paper inserts many of us have other bad thing they have to fix is the album art retrieval thing hangs pretty easily, from what i've read it supposedly hangs on certain file?folder? names, so mine gets stuck at about 30% done itunes doesn't crash, the number of albums completed just stops, sometimes apples simplicity is an annoyance, theres no feedback for whats wrong, no error message.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the album art is pretty when it works. 600x600? images. bad thing is it doesn't seem to save the files in the album directory you can right click copy the image in itunes and paste as bmp, not great. covers are nice and crystal clear unlike the scans of paper inserts many of us have other bad thing they have to fix is the album art retrieval thing hangs pretty easily, from what i've read it supposedly hangs on certain file?folder? names, so mine gets stuck at about 30% done itunes doesn't crash, the number of albums completed just stops, sometimes apples simplicity is an annoyance, theres no feedback for whats wrong, no error message.

I just use Mp3tag which embeds the album art into the MP3 file itself. I have it setup to connect to Amazon.com's CD database and then it applies the approriate tag information/album art to each song in an album.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: heat23
I just got back from the Apple store to check out the new IPOD Video. I was expecting the video quality to be noticable different between the new and the previous generation, but I was totally wrong. I did a side-by-side comparison of a music video on both and could not find any difference.

Other than a brighter screen, there is no difference. It's the same hardware.

 

[Journer]

now i must find a way for best buy to exchange my 3g for this >)

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the album art is pretty when it works. 600x600? images. bad thing is it doesn't seem to save the files in the album directory you can right click copy the image in itunes and paste as bmp, not great. covers are nice and crystal clear unlike the scans of paper inserts many of us have other bad thing they have to fix is the album art retrieval thing hangs pretty easily, from what i've read it supposedly hangs on certain file?folder? names, so mine gets stuck at about 30% done itunes doesn't crash, the number of albums completed just stops, sometimes apples simplicity is an annoyance, theres no feedback for whats wrong, no error message.

I just use Mp3tag which embeds the album art into the MP3 file itself. I have it setup to connect to Amazon.com's CD database and then it applies the approriate tag information/album art to each song in an album.

hm interesting. thanks. i guess its good for filling the missing tag fields i have too. amazon images aren't as good as itunes, ah well

 

[Pepsei]

don't forget your hefty educational discount.... get a student to buy one for you....

i got screwed out of it.... when my wife have a student id, and my girlfriends are from the local college.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the album art is pretty when it works. 600x600? images. bad thing is it doesn't seem to save the files in the album directory you can right click copy the image in itunes and paste as bmp, not great. covers are nice and crystal clear unlike the scans of paper inserts many of us have other bad thing they have to fix is the album art retrieval thing hangs pretty easily, from what i've read it supposedly hangs on certain file?folder? names, so mine gets stuck at about 30% done itunes doesn't crash, the number of albums completed just stops, sometimes apples simplicity is an annoyance, theres no feedback for whats wrong, no error message.

I just use Mp3tag which embeds the album art into the MP3 file itself. I have it setup to connect to Amazon.com's CD database and then it applies the approriate tag information/album art to each song in an album.

hm interesting. thanks. i guess its good for filling the missing tag fields i have too. amazon images aren't as good as itunes, ah well

For displaying on your computer, I guess the images would be considered inferior, but for viewing on your iPod itself, it's perfect.

 

[Gl4di4tor]

Originally posted by: j00fek
still wont buy one

Me 2. As beautiful as they are, I just don't think I need it. My axim x50v does everything i need for now.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
the album art is pretty when it works. 600x600? images. bad thing is it doesn't seem to save the files in the album directory you can right click copy the image in itunes and paste as bmp, not great. covers are nice and crystal clear unlike the scans of paper inserts many of us have other bad thing they have to fix is the album art retrieval thing hangs pretty easily, from what i've read it supposedly hangs on certain file?folder? names, so mine gets stuck at about 30% done itunes doesn't crash, the number of albums completed just stops, sometimes apples simplicity is an annoyance, theres no feedback for whats wrong, no error message.

I just use Mp3tag which embeds the album art into the MP3 file itself. I have it setup to connect to Amazon.com's CD database and then it applies the approriate tag information/album art to each song in an album.

hm interesting. thanks. i guess its good for filling the missing tag fields i have too. amazon images aren't as good as itunes, ah well

For displaying on your computer, I guess the images would be considered inferior, but for viewing on your iPod itself, it's perfect.

true. it seems to work best with full albums. sometimes when doing partial albums it retags the songs assuming they are all there and just goes in track order which is wrong. is there a way to write just the cover image to the tag without messinng up the other info? thats basically what i need, just the pic after all.