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Sorry Tommy, I should have been more specific, I connect my iPod to my work computer, and create the playlists on the ipod via the iTunes.
Yeah, I was wondering if I was missing something....
I think my biggest on-the-go playlist was five or six songs....
Fun! OK, so apparently to export a playlist such that it can be imported into iTunes, that feature is only available in the Win & Linux versions. So, since I just got Parallels, no problem. Except it seems Win doesn't see the Firewire port. OK, dig for USB dock cable. So then in order to export, ya gotta compare the playlist with a list of songs. Of course I can't get Parallels to see the Mac partition. So I link it back to the iPod. Apparently it has to analyze the whole volume before it can do the export. Ya, so I'm waiting while it goes thru over 6,000 to export a song list of 800.
I tried to get it to import a playlist to itunes and it was more problem than it was worth. So I just decided I didn't need those playlists after all.
What you may want to do is load the playlists in yamipod and save them as a html file so at least you have the name of the songs.
I tried to get it to import a playlist to itunes and it was more problem than it was worth. So I just decided I didn't need those playlists after all.
Ya, I'm getting close to that. Not giving up on the playlists, but thinking it might be easier to just recreate it manually in iTunes. (I had to stop the export earlier today to go frolic in a/c land, and I'm trying at it again before going to bed.)
Does this make any sense? [link]
A rumor that the high-end iPod will switch to Flash-based storage (no HD).
How much would an iPod with, say, 120GB flash storage cost?
(Yeah, I know - I should just wait 'til tomorrow. I've been ignoring most iPod rumors, but this one made me curious.)
Does this make any sense?
Makes a whole lot of sense -- it's been rumored for a while now, they've had a lot of success with the flash-based Nano, and it's been rumored for even longer that flash rather than hard drives will be the direction for portable devices (including lightweight laptops) as larger amounts of flash storage get cheaper.
Here's a rumor saying they won't be switching to flash: [link]
Someone should totally deathmatch the rumors sites. Engadget could be the referee.
Makes a whole lot of sense -- it's been rumored for a while now, they've had a lot of success with the flash-based Nano, and it's been rumored for even longer that flash rather than hard drives will be the direction for portable devices (including lightweight laptops) as larger amounts of flash storage get cheaper.
That all makes sense; I just didn't know flash prices had come down enough for that to happen now.
I think it's a combo of flash prices coming down and Apple discovering that the market for the really big iPods isn't as large at the smaller sized ones. I suspect we might see a switch to more flash based stuff, but that the memory sizes are going to come back down for a while.
I'd love to have a 200 GB iPod, but I just don't think I'm going to be seeing one for a while.