Anyone got an itouch?

[FrankJH]

File > New Smart Playlist, have a gander at the options.

I had a look before work but couldnt quite get these right - Im guessing you would still need to use playlists instead of general artist/album view

One thing I would like in the next version is Coverflow for Artists, or to be able to sort the albums by artist (so instead of having boring lists you have lovely pics instead)

I also have a feeling the itouch is a tad quiet, in a bedroom or something its ok, but on a tube (and Im guessing aircraft/airport etc) it just doesnt go loud enough for me - I had a play with the volume limiter/enhancer within properties of some songs but it didnt seem to make any difference at all

 

[WotDa]

I also have a feeling the itouch is a tad quiet, in a bedroom or something its ok, but on a tube (and Im guessing aircraft/airport etc) it just doesnt go loud enough for me - I had a play with the volume limiter/enhancer within properties of some songs but it didnt seem to make any difference at all

Odd, I went past a busy round about with mine at about 50% volume for 4 months and that was plenty loud enough.

I do have the Sennheiser CX300's though.

I'm guessing you would still need to use playlists instead of general artist/album view

Yup.

 

[FrankJH]

Odd, I went past a busy round about with mine at about 50% volume for 4 months and that was plenty loud enough.

I do have the Sennheiser CX300's though.



Yup.

I got some pretty decent Sony E75's or something - usually these are pretty load on ipods in the past, just not quite so much on the touch , but it could be just me

Will look out for the CX300's to see if they are any better (1/2 price of the Sony's too)

 

[OspreyO]

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What Im trying to do is sort out all my 100's of singles - they are in one Singles album without any issue, but I was hoping there was a way of all these tracks being "blocked" from the artist list - so in effect I only have artists with full albums showing up on the artist list...

Tag all the tracks in the singles album as compilation. Then in iTunes Edit/Preferences/General check the "Group compilations when Browsing" checkbox.

This removes artists where all their tracks are tagged compilations from the artists list. But if you have artists with some tracks in compilations albums and some tracks not in compilations (their own albums). Then the tracks on the compilation albums will also appear under the artist aswell in compilations.

This is very clever and I don't know of any other player that does this. Its one feature of a couple of features that would make me get a iPod over other players.

I think the "Artist Album" is what appears in the Artist list. Not "Artist" if theres both. So if you are seeing funny artists in the list check the "Artist Album" tag.

I don't have an iPod other than a Shuffle so I don't know how this works when you synch with an iPod. I only use iTunes (along with MediaMonkey) to clean up my tags. As I usually use filetree myself.

 

[FrankJH]

Tag all the tracks in the singles album as compilation. Then in iTunes Edit/Preferences/General check the "Group compilations when Browsing" checkbox.

This removes artists where all their tracks are tagged compilations from the artists list. But if you have artists with some tracks in compilations albums and some tracks not in compilations (their own albums). Then the tracks on the compilation albums will also appear under the artist aswell in compilations.

This is very clever and I don't know of any other player that does this. Its one feature of a couple of features that would make me get a iPod over other players.

I think the "Artist Album" is what appears in the Artist list. Not "Artist" if theres both. So if you are seeing funny artists in the list check the "Artist Album" tag.

I don't have an iPod other than a Shuffle so I don't know how this works when you synch with an iPod. I only use iTunes (along with MediaMonkey) to clean up my tags. As I usually use filetree myself.

Thanks for that - sounds right (and I would never have worked it out) will try when I get home or early tomorrow

 

[Davinnicus]

So, for the price are these players any good? The reason I ask is my zen jukebox has just about given up the ghost after 9 years and with my 30th rapidly approaching I have decided to treat myself to either the 32GB touch or the 60GB zen vision w.

 

[Big Kev]

So, for the price are these players any good? The reason I ask is my zen jukebox has just about given up the ghost after 9 years and with my 30th rapidly approaching I have decided to treat myself to either the 32GB touch or the 60GB zen vision w.

I used to have the 60GB Vision W and it is pretty big and heavy mate, as for the size of the iTouch, I haven't seen one, so can't comment.

Considering it's huge price tag, what are the advantages over my 80g Zune?