I got an iPod Mini Nano from my boyfriend for xmas a few days ago, and overall I like it, although there are a few things that really bug me:
1. You can’t re-order your OnTheGo playlist after you’ve added songs to it. This is incredibly annoying, since I’d prefer to click on the tracks that I want to play and then re-order them after I figure out what the best order would be.
2. You can’t get your music off your iPod. How weird is that? I suspect it’s to prevent people from sharing music, which is unfortunate. I hate when technology babysits you. Anyway, I found two programs that let you copy music [thanks, Engadget!]:
For PC: EphPod
For Mac: iLinkPod
Neat!
Reader Comments
http://www.rockbox.org – problem solved. I’ve got a 60 gig iPod 5G (Video) running this. Battery life is not as good, but it’s a *huge* improvement in feature set, flexibility, etc. It’s a whole replacemeny firmware for the iPod and tons of other portable music players, and it can handle files being on the player in a normal directory structure. Plays ogg, flac, mp3, aac, SID, and with some patches, NSF. Rock-on.
Oh sweet jeebus–that the awesome.
Sadly I have a 2nd gen nano and it says it’s not supported.