However, the iPod Shuffle is far from perfect. Three things that have annoyed me already during the first application:
1. An iPod - two PCs:
The iPod Shuffle is easy not to multiple computers with music (as you try using iTunes) filling. Terse response from Apple: just is not provided! Suppose I connect it to my PC and then copy it Music: So far so good, works beautifully. Problematic wirds However, if, for example, intends, in addition music (z. B. from own notebook also on the iTunes installed) to copy to your iPod shuffle. It does not work! Unless you delete all times just on the device existing pieces. I thought it was only a joke, but it is actually like that. On the iPod nano which incidentally is not a problem.
The next (smaller) Shock: When iPod nano I can copy music onto the device, without that I had to import them earlier in the iTunes library. When iPod Shuffle that actually works only with music that you have stored in its library. Especially annoying when you lie music on various hard drives and sometimes just wants to pull via Copy & Paste on the iPod.
-> Possible solution:
z. B. "Rebuild", which one can use its nano as a USB disk. Also works very well.
2. selection:
Nice if the operation is simple. Not nice at all, however, is the fact that you can only jump forward one track always without speed up this process somehow. On the 2 GB model, see, depending on compression rate and title length very quickly a few hundred titles Place. Suppose you want to play in the list relatively distant piece, then one should push all seriousness about a hundred times the forward button. Go to Madam Apple still good !? Were it not for at least one measly function as "2X quickly pressing the fast forward button = Jump forward 10 tracks," or something have been possible in such a way? Even on my old Iriver player I could quickly change the albums and did not have to select every single piece. And who had only 512MB of memory. With 2 gigabytes so no reasonable Navigation longer possible.
-> Workaround:
Use the random track selection are usually a bit faster. If you are sufficiently close to the desired track, just turn off random function again and then jump manually to the desired track. This even works reasonably well, provided you have a rough idea about where to find the albums or individual tracks. There the optimal search strategy for the 1-gigabyte model has even been calculated. The aforementioned "Rebuild" by example, the albums folder alphabetically, making the search easier and increases the overview.
3. gapless playback:
The Nano hats fooled: music without pauses between tracks. Somewhat naively, I assumed that the Shuffle that would also be able to. No, he can not. Funnily enough advertises Telekom shop, which also sells iPod Shuffle, full-bodied with exactly this feature, namely "gapless playback". Then I looked at me the specification on the Apple website. From "Skip-free playback" is only mentioned there. But that means something completely different than "gapless playback". Too bad, if someone actually reads the product descriptions and what they read also takes at face value.
Despite all these criticisms, and the iPod Shuffle remains the sport my first choice. He is also recommended people who shy away from a "complicated" operation and are completely satisfied with basic functions. Who wants a lot more features, but should rather pick up the Nano or pull comparable players from other manufacturers into account.
