Daniel, I googled my issue first and got nothing. I figured the buffistas might have another recommendation.

Daniel, it's the support thread. People come here with questions all the time--are we really making rules before entry?

tommy, if you still want to try, you can send it to me.

ita, I just sent it to you via gmail, but I got an "unresponsive script" error after it went out. I think it went out OK. (I send to your profile addy)

I never said it was a rule, I just found several references when I googled, and rather than post what I found, I was lazy.

In no way did I mean it as a rebuke.

tommy, gimme a few minutes to do the copy over. Received intact.

Sorry-DCJ. I read it kinda like a RTFM. I apologise.

Thanks, ita.

Also, (and unrelated to the problem I posted) I'm curious if the album cover graphic came with it into iTunes (i.e. was "embedded" in the mp3) - if not, that means that mp3s have their artwork stored separatly in iTunes.

We're looking at wireless USB devices. The company that's building our computer sells a D-Link DWL-G132 USB 802.11g. The web site reviews we've been able to find talk about driver issues and incompatibilities, and overheating problems, so we're a little dubious. On the other hand, we haven't found any professional reviews. Anyone have experience with this brand, or recs for other brands?

I wonder if a useful gimick to use until there is a faster way to program in a URL would be to use tinyurl.com for a podcast URL? Would that relieve some of the pain? Would it even work?

tommy, it hiccoughs for me too at thepoint you mention, but not through every synth point. Maybe three? Also, the cover art was there.

Dana, I've had on and off luck with D-Link. I prefer Linksys. But I know nothing of your device in specific.

Thanks ita.

Huh, I wonder if it's the way eMusic does their encoding.

OK, I just noticed that they use LAME. And in my googleing I saw, "There has been A LOT talk of stuttering with LAME on ipods." And not just the Nano, although that's the only one I've had the problem.

Oh, also

I have a couple (2-5) tracks that skip but my library was encoded at the preset standard and I currently have 4000 songs. So 0.125% of my library skips due to the VBR mp3's and the iPods inability to keep up the processing power (for a small percentage of songs) when the bitrate jumps high.

Huh. I guess I was right.

eta: Lot's o' info: [link]

iPod nano/mini 2G use clock speed optimisation to increase battery time.

VBR songs with a sudden increase in bitrate may cause the iPod nano/mini 2G to stutter as the clock speed is not increased fast enough to deal with the increased bitrate.

This has so far been observed for songs encoded with LAME --preset standard and is only true when not using the equaliser.

in'eresting. Off to try the equalizer....

eta: Or do they mean the LAME equalizer?

eta³: OK, I changed the Equilizer Preset for that song from 'None' to 'Electronic' and resynched to the Nano, but no dice....