evnow
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Right - and I guess all iPod Classics can be update to this version.garygid said:Then it is only the Classic iPod versions BEFORE 1.1.2 that are not compatible?
Right - and I guess all iPod Classics can be update to this version.garygid said:Then it is only the Classic iPod versions BEFORE 1.1.2 that are not compatible?
turbo2ltr said:Unfortunately nothing is powered when the car is off, including the cigarette lighter. I run my laptop in the car off an inverter for work and out in the field. I hate not having a always powered cigarette lighter. My inverter has "soft" power button, so every time I start the car I have to remember to turn it on.
I'm thinking I should probably hack it and change the lighter plug to constant power...
Yes, the USB navigation is a pain. I'm renaming all the deepest directories in my collection to Genre-Artist-Album. Also all the tracks to track#-title. This works fine - except I can't really see the album name in the list since Leaf only shows a few characters and that cuts off most of the album. Even when I use just one letter to denote the genre.prberg said:Well I just broke down and bought a used 5th generation ipod. The navigation for the USB drive was just to cumbersome for me. The LEAF ipod navigation is just much easier (by genre, artist, album, playlist, etc) and faster. ipods with broken screens and bad click wheels are pretty cheap on ebay. Maybe in MY2012 or later they will improve the USB navigation system (so it actually reads the MP3 id tags and not just the file names).
evnow said:Yes, the USB navigation is a pain. I'm renaming all the deepest directories in my collection to Genre-Artist-Album. Also all the tracks to track#-title. This works fine - except I can't really see the album name in the list since Leaf only shows a few characters and that cuts off most of the album. Even when I use just one letter to denote the genre.prberg said:Well I just broke down and bought a used 5th generation ipod. The navigation for the USB drive was just to cumbersome for me. The LEAF ipod navigation is just much easier (by genre, artist, album, playlist, etc) and faster. ipods with broken screens and bad click wheels are pretty cheap on ebay. Maybe in MY2012 or later they will improve the USB navigation system (so it actually reads the MP3 id tags and not just the file names).
I wonder whether I can get a "broken" iPod for the same price as an USB stick (about $1 / GB) ... how much did you pay ?
I got a non-broken but used unit for about $1/GB. Looks like a better deal than pure USB sticks in this case.prberg said:I paid $40 for a 80gb 5th gen unit. Working good.. but I actually don't use it as much as I thought I would. My commute is pretty short so I don't get much of a chance to listen to alot of music. But it sure is easier to deal with than the USB stick.
Here is an idea.blorg said:There are freeware programs out there that can do this for the "order written to disk" method, but it wouldn't be hard to write up my own program to do it either way and gives me a little more control.
evnow said:Here is an idea.blorg said:There are freeware programs out there that can do this for the "order written to disk" method, but it wouldn't be hard to write up my own program to do it either way and gives me a little more control.
Using playlists as the source, create folders on the USB drive - one folder per playlist. The tracks would be written either in shuffled mode or normal depending on the option selected.
I think the USB navigation is too clumsy to go by albums. A few long playlists is easier to handle.
My daughter's old nano won't hold a charge anymore, which will make it perfect for the car. There's got to be a lot of ipods out there that have bad batts or screens.blorg said:Might have to ditch the USB drive idea and start hitting up ebay and craigslist for an old ipod of some sort.
Yes - split it into various folders and then play them all with shuffle on. Basically, the navigation using USB is cumbersome for anything over a dozen albums.blorg said:The Leaf will only recognize 255 songs in a folder. No more. So my playlist of 3148 songs? Nope, sorry, only 255, and IT'S going to decide which ones are available (maybe the first 255 written to the drive?). I haven't yet tried splitting them up across many folders, then set it up to play through all folders. Perhaps it will allow 255 files in each folder and behave nicely that way, but that's still irritating.
They need to let us navigate using meta tags and playlists. Idea of using folder names is too silly and takes us back to 1980s.blorg said:You would think that by now new cars would have a better implementation of this kind of thing. Not like playing mp3 files is a new concept or anything.
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