ian elliot
October 18th, 2010, 08:28
My old Sony mp3 player gave up the goast after 4 years loyal service, and im thinking i should have stayed with the same make. My old player needed no software for it to run fine so i did raise an eyewbrow when i realised i had to download a 70 mg driver package for the shuffle to work, although it seems most of it is gear'd towards getting you to sign up for an i-tunes acount rather than the nuts and bolts of runing the player.
But the biggest pain is the performance of loading it up with tracks, esp complete albums, normally it was a case of copying an album to my music and just copy-paste the wma album to the sony and away you go. With this thing, first you copy the album to your pc the normal way and then i-tunes has to convert the wma-mp3 tracks to another format before there reconised by the shuffle ( which seems to take twice as long ), and then you realise that you cant play complete albums ( well actually you can but they take some finding, say you have 4 albums and you want to hear the 3rd album first, you have to go through the tracks one by one before you get to the start of the album you want ) so you have to create a "palylist" ( thats compilation in English ) of the album tracks in order, re-transfer them to the shuffle and then your good to go, jeezzzz!
On the first night of playing around with this thing, i was tossing a coin between asking for my money back and taking a hammer to it, but now im getting the hang of it, i actually quite like it. But i do wonder, if making something simple complicated was an olimpic sport then Apple would certainlly be in line for a silver, possibly a Gold,
I did notice, while looking on the net that someone had released software that did convert your i-shuffle (probably an older model ) to a normal no frills copy and play player, ummm intresting.
cheers ian
But the biggest pain is the performance of loading it up with tracks, esp complete albums, normally it was a case of copying an album to my music and just copy-paste the wma album to the sony and away you go. With this thing, first you copy the album to your pc the normal way and then i-tunes has to convert the wma-mp3 tracks to another format before there reconised by the shuffle ( which seems to take twice as long ), and then you realise that you cant play complete albums ( well actually you can but they take some finding, say you have 4 albums and you want to hear the 3rd album first, you have to go through the tracks one by one before you get to the start of the album you want ) so you have to create a "palylist" ( thats compilation in English ) of the album tracks in order, re-transfer them to the shuffle and then your good to go, jeezzzz!
On the first night of playing around with this thing, i was tossing a coin between asking for my money back and taking a hammer to it, but now im getting the hang of it, i actually quite like it. But i do wonder, if making something simple complicated was an olimpic sport then Apple would certainlly be in line for a silver, possibly a Gold,
I did notice, while looking on the net that someone had released software that did convert your i-shuffle (probably an older model ) to a normal no frills copy and play player, ummm intresting.
cheers ian