New iPod features and a new Media Centre box from Apple

atf487 · Post by **atf487** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:21 pm

The new shuffle is actually quite awesome, it isn't as useless as the first one (and I own a G1)

Also, the 80 gig for 350 is a GREAT deal that I will pick up someday. Jesus, that is a great price.

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:30 pm

The games thing is a great idea, but $4.99 for a flash-type game? Puh-leez.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:44 pm

Hasney, you forgot GAPLESS PLAYBACK! A lot of people have really been waiting for that..

Man, I should've waited to get my iPod. I hope the iPod's gapless playback is included in an iPod firmware update, it seems they're still including this iPod in 5th Generation... I can live with a dimmer screen and 20gb less storage..

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:53 pm

Wait, what? Gapless playback? Seriously? Is it only going to be with the new iPods coming out or are they going to release an update for all other iPods too? I have a 5G video iPod 30gb.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just installed iTunes 7 and it's going through all my songs determining gapless playback information. YES!!!!!!!

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:10 pm

This is mostly good (helps make up for the snore-fest that that was the developers' convention a month or two ago). The iPods still need removable batteries, though (I refuse to buy one until they do), and the TV unit is too expensive. Also, those movie downloads--not that I'll be using them, but still--should really be in a widescreen resolution. Other than that, not bad.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:50 pm

I can confirm that after iTunes updated the iPod firmware and determined the gapless playback information, my 60gb 5G iPod is indeed smoothly flowing gaplessly from Mean Mr. Mustard to Polythene Pam. YES!

Luriden · Post by **Luriden** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:52 pm

I love Apple now. Maybe I'll go buy a Mac just to show them how much I love them...

or maybe just a bigger iPod, my 30gig is kinda cramped anyway.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:21 pm

Freaky Keneaki wrote:I love Apple now. Maybe I'll go buy a Mac just to show them how much I love them...

or maybe just a bigger iPod, my 30gig is kinda cramped anyway.

i call kudos on your ipod.

and i plan to get a new ipod sometime, which will definately be soon if i get activated.

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:55 pm

Im surprised there isn't more anti-sentiments.

Post by **melancholy** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:01 pm

Wow, gapless playback! I wonder if my 3G iPod will do it...

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:22 pm

Wow... iTunes 7 makes it REALLY easy to backup music.... +1

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:30 pm

MulletMan13 wrote:Im surprised there isn't more anti-sentiments.

Well, my complaint is that iTunes is UGLY now.

I hate the Mail.app look, and it seems like that's what everything's going to be changed to in Leopard.

Covar · Post by **Covar** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:39 pm

looks a lot different than mail IMO

MulletMan13 · Post by **MulletMan13** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:54 pm

They're experimenting with a couple different window UI's.

Final Cut Pro
Aperture
Mail/Preview
iTunes

They are all different, and they are listening to feedback on all of them. This strongly hints at the idea of a unified interface in Leopard. iTunes looks reallly.... linuxy right now. Pretty Linuxy, but nevertheless does not look like an OSX program anymore.

Then again I hated when they got rid of the brushed metal iTunes UI, but after a while I was so happy they did.

ace · Post by **ace** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:01 pm

For Hasney:

iTV
Enjoy your media on big screen TV, works with PCs or Macs, Coming in Q1 2007, $299.

For Mel/Anyone wondering about gapless playback:

It's handled through iTunes 7. It has nothing to do with your iPod. If you download iTunes 7, gapless playback works.

Zealous zerotype · Post by **Zealous zerotype** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:15 pm

Finally, it got really annoying having to put entire techno mixes on as one big mp3.

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:16 pm

Ish. iTunes *is* ugly now. Also, they moved some stuff in the interface around; that screwed with me for a good 20 minutes or so.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:45 pm

I was specifically hoping they'd announce an 80 GB Video model today for $400. Instead they announced an 80 GB Video model today for $350.

Looks like I'm buying an iPod.

Post by **melancholy** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:53 pm

ace wrote:It's handled through iTunes 7. It has nothing to do with your iPod. If you download iTunes 7, gapless playback works.

How does that work? I mean, I always assumed it was a hardware limitation, so how can it make an iPod have gapless playback without a firmware update? Not that I'm complaining, though.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:24 pm

ace wrote:It's handled through iTunes 7. It has nothing to do with your iPod. If you download iTunes 7, gapless playback works.

Are you sure? It didn't seem to work properly for me until I updated to iPod Firmware v1.2, but I could be wrong. It seems to me that if that was the case someone would have gotten gapless playback working on it long ago.