Question for current iPod Photo owners...

[holy_cow]

I'm considering upgrading to an iPod Photo, just need to know a few things first, and I hope the iPod Photo owners around here can help.

We've heard quite a bit about sharing pictures via TVs and the iPod screen, but what about sharing full-res versions via FW and USB? Correct me if I'm wrong, but when photos are synced from iTunes it's possible to simultaneously sync full-res versions along with the downsampled ones. Are there any facilities for identifying the full-res version of any given photo you happen to be viewing on the iPod? What I want to know is how easy it is to identify a photo on the iPod, plug it into a computer and then get the full-res version of that photo out. Since most of my photos are tagged with numbers rather than easily-identifiable names, it would be a chore, if I wanted to copy a photo to a friend's computer, for example, to have to trawl through thousand of pics before finding the one I was just looking at a few minutes ago on the iPod's screen.

Idea for a firmware update: the ability to scroll through album art, the way you scroll through thumbnails of photos, in order to pick what you want to listen to. I'm a user of Clutter, which basically lets you do the same thing. Some might prefer that selection process compared to the text-based one.

Has anyone thought about the possibility of a reasonably compact, media card-reading peripheral that might do the downsampling in place of iTunes? What's the feasibility of something like that? It would allow you to view photos that you've sent from your digicam to the iPod straight away...but perhaps the required processing power would render it bulky and energy-ravenous?

[ipod-upod]

I have the 60gigger and synced full rez photos. I have iPhoto and it syncs my complete album. With the iPod connected via FW, you can look into the Photos folder via Finder (I suppose Win Explorer also). The jpegs are organized by year folders, month sub folder, then day subfolders. From there, in Finder, it shows a preview so it is quite easy to find the photo you want if you have an idea on the date. Hope that helps.

[eamc]

For ipod-upod: In your day subfolders, in what order to the images appear? Is it alphabetical by file name, or is it by date (in case you use more than 1 camera)?

I have loaded over 7,000 pictures into the 60GB iPod photo. They are all in one folder, as I rely on Adobe Photoshop Album to sort them by date. I note that in iPod the ORDER of the slides is unpredictable - is it alphabetic? If I turn the shuffle on - will I ever be able to come back to the original (alpha?) order, or will my 7,000 pictures be forever in some rearranged random order?

This is true for the Adobe "slide shows" also - the logical order of the original show is gone.

:rolleyes:

[ipod-upod]

Edwin, The order in the PhotoPod seems to be the same order as in the iPhoto folders and subfolders. That is, files are alphabetical - mine are DSCNxxxxx.jpg names.

[eamc]

For a slide show, a logical order is much better than alphabetical.

1) Is it possible to reorder images (by sliding them around?) ?

2) If not, what can you do? I have placed some ordered Adobe Album shows in iPod only to find that the order is gone.

3) Is the shuffle permanent or reversible back to alpha?

[ipod-upod]

I can only write about using iPhoto since that is what I have. The order of the photos in the PhotoPod does not follow the order in the subfolders from what I can tell. The order is set in iPhoto. In fact, an album (something like a playlist) in iPhoto has the same order of images as in the PhotoPod's album. It seems that integration with iPhoto is much better than Adobe Album.

[eamc]

After you shuffle and close, are the images back in the original order or in the suffled order??

I also have iphoto and that is what I use to transfer pictures from my hard drive. What I am saying is that if my hard drive has pix in alphabetical order aa1, aa2, aa3, aa4 they are no longer in that order in iPod photo. If I have an Adobe Album "slide show" in which pictures, regardless of file name, are in the sequence 1,2,3,4,5 they are no longer in that order in iPod photo.

[ipod-upod]

I cannot shuffle the order in the Photo Library. However, I can shuffle the order in my Albums. When you sync the PhotoPod, the images are in the shuffled order. I hope this helps!

[eamc]

Hi - when you say "in my Albums" do you mean "Adobe Photoshop Album" as unloaded to iPod?

[ipod-upod]

No, I don't use Adobe. Albums are the ones created in iPhoto.