canyonblue737
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Some things folks aren't talking about...
1) Hold button. There is no hold button so instead you hold the play/pause button for 3 seconds a orange LED flashes to indicate your in hold. Attempting to press any button then causes the orange LED to flash but the buttons do nothing. To take it out of hold you press the play/pause button for another 3 seconds.
2) Battery charge status. There is a battery status button on the back which when you press it causes the LED to show green, yellow, or red to indicate level of charge. No LED indicates a dead battery.
3) The iPod shuffle is the ONLY iPod formated in MS-DOS which is Mac/PC compatible so there is never a need to reformat the iPod shuffle when moving between PCs or Macs.
4) There is a setting in the new iTunes 4.7.1 for iPod Shuffles ONLY that will automatically take ANY format type (MP3, Lossless, WAV, AIFF, AAC etc.) that is over 128 kbps and format it to a 128 kbps AAC file before putting it on the iPod shuffle (all without changing the format of the orginial file on the computer, or saving that new version of the file on the computer.) This does slightly increase the time to sync of course if you have numerous files about 128 kbps but it is a nice option for those who really want to pack in a decent amount of files on a shuffle, in particular the 512k model.
There is a suprising amount of thought put into this simple little model... more details to come...
1) Hold button. There is no hold button so instead you hold the play/pause button for 3 seconds a orange LED flashes to indicate your in hold. Attempting to press any button then causes the orange LED to flash but the buttons do nothing. To take it out of hold you press the play/pause button for another 3 seconds.
2) Battery charge status. There is a battery status button on the back which when you press it causes the LED to show green, yellow, or red to indicate level of charge. No LED indicates a dead battery.
3) The iPod shuffle is the ONLY iPod formated in MS-DOS which is Mac/PC compatible so there is never a need to reformat the iPod shuffle when moving between PCs or Macs.
4) There is a setting in the new iTunes 4.7.1 for iPod Shuffles ONLY that will automatically take ANY format type (MP3, Lossless, WAV, AIFF, AAC etc.) that is over 128 kbps and format it to a 128 kbps AAC file before putting it on the iPod shuffle (all without changing the format of the orginial file on the computer, or saving that new version of the file on the computer.) This does slightly increase the time to sync of course if you have numerous files about 128 kbps but it is a nice option for those who really want to pack in a decent amount of files on a shuffle, in particular the 512k model.
There is a suprising amount of thought put into this simple little model... more details to come...