iPod report
Jun. 6th, 2006 08:52 pmNice 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.
