iPod report
Jun. 6th, 2006 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienNice physical design, neat hardware.
Bizarrely annoying software.
Okay, it's an Apple product. What else did I expect?
Sorry, Apple fans. My mind just doesn't work that way; I have a perverse old-fashioned preference for the command line and for knowing my files by name.
Really, who thought it was a good idea that not only 'songs' but my own photos have to exist in a particular directory on a particular computer, and continue to exist there, in order for a scaled-down version to be kept available on the iPod? (The scare quotes around 'songs' are because most of my audio is not the sort that usefully subdivides that way; I have the main menu set to display 'Albums', and that fills my needs nicely.)
Edit: Even more bizarrely, the functionality for manually controlling songs and adding them from more than one computer is there, according to the documentation -- but the same functionality appears not to exist for photos.
Bizarrely annoying software.
Okay, it's an Apple product. What else did I expect?
Sorry, Apple fans. My mind just doesn't work that way; I have a perverse old-fashioned preference for the command line and for knowing my files by name.
Really, who thought it was a good idea that not only 'songs' but my own photos have to exist in a particular directory on a particular computer, and continue to exist there, in order for a scaled-down version to be kept available on the iPod? (The scare quotes around 'songs' are because most of my audio is not the sort that usefully subdivides that way; I have the main menu set to display 'Albums', and that fills my needs nicely.)
Edit: Even more bizarrely, the functionality for manually controlling songs and adding them from more than one computer is there, according to the documentation -- but the same functionality appears not to exist for photos.
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Date: 2006-06-07 03:00 pm (UTC)It is possible to set the iPod to copy over full-resolution files as well, which take their own names with them but can't be directly viewed; I presume also that if you upload files directly from your camera you get the whole thing in a retrievable format. I don't know (and ImageMagick can't tell me) what format the iThmb files are using.