Re: Bash me all you want
I own a 30gb video iPod as well as now my 2gb nano clone. before I got the 2gb I was using a 512mb stick type mp3 player.
I've been considering selling the iPod for some time, since they're just so damn expensive for the feature list compared to the generic devices.
What I like about the iPod,
it has much better battery life although it's also bigger so has a bigger battery so that's to be expected.
it as a prettier, slightly easier to use interface, tho still not how i'd like it.
the large, bright screen would be good for video playback, if i bothered to use it.
I like that I can autosync podcasts on to it, and I like the application iFill which records internet radio and syncs it on.
What I don't like
It's damn big, even being the slimmer version, you can fit it in your pocket, but you can't really get anything else in your pocket with it.
I don't need 30gb - maybe eventually I will, and if I let itunes find everything I had then my entire music collection would probably be about 20gb but I don't need my entire music collection, 3/4 of it I pretty much never listen to. I just like it for very, very occasionally.
You still have to convert video to apple's damn proprietary format, it takes ages, the files are much bigger than they would've been if they'd just been left in dvix/xvid and then they look pants if you want to hook the ipod up to the tv anyway.
I don't really use video anyway, I bought the clone because I wanted the screen real estate, hoping on an easier to use/see interface. I only ever really watch a video once, and most of the time i want that to be on a decent size screen, without have to wait hours for it to convert. it's nice to have things like episodes of family guy on there for if you're really bored, cartoons scale well, but I still get sick of watching the same thing over and over. I guess if I knew I could definitely get a new, crisp, clean episode of the colbert report delivered to my ipod everyday for a not insane charge (how about free? if it's synching i'm not gonna mess around to take out the ads) then that might be something.
I also don't like the interface very much, the click wheel is ok I know a lot of people rave about it, but personally i'd go for something more intuative, like up, down, left, right, select
Also I want to be able to view my files in the folders I put them in. not just by ID3 I know I could sort all of my ID3 tags out, tho it would take an age, but even then, it doesn't work properly, If I want to listen to rock, then I want to select the rock folder, but in ID3 there are at least 20 sub categories of rock, I don't want ot have to mess up the ID3s just so they all go in the same place.
You also can only add songs to the on-the-go playlist one at a time.
It will play mp3 as well as crapple format, but mp3 is old and relatively poor quality for the space it takes up, still there is plenty of space so i can have mp3s coded at a decent rate, but support for ogg or wma would be nice.
there is no radio but the one on the clone is crap anyway, but it would do for if i wanted to listen to the news.
on the clone, the interface still isn't intuitive, why are left and right the buttons for up and down? and why is the menu button select, when play would make much more sense.
the interface is ugly as hell, will be better when i can skin it, but i think that will only change the menus, not the "now playing" screen.
there isn't much space, only 2gb but i can compress all my music into either vbr ogg or vbr wma which means room for lots more songs.
It was cheap, i'm not gonna shed many tears if it get's broken or stolen.
there are more but i can't think of them right now but you get the idea.
one interesting thing, i've noticed i could eliviate a lot of the problems i have with the iPod by installing rockbox, so i might well do that. pity there isn't a build for the actions chipset.
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