New iPods

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:45 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Low volume really pissing me off now. It's just nowhere near what I need for schlepping around honking, rumbling, shouty old London.
You can hit command+I to get info on tracks in iTunes, and crank the volume from there:

Works on multiples too, so you can do you entire library in one hit if you like.

Cheers, Rod.

goldfish · Post by **goldfish** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:59 pm 0

Not convinced this is a good thing to do, personally... doesn't it just flatten the dynamic range of your music? I know Rod doesn't care much about sound quality (

) but it would give me the shits, personally.

I'd try to hold fire until someone breaks out a firmware fix... I'm sure it won't be long until GoPod gets updated...

Simon

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:15 pm 0

Agh!

matt · Post by **matt** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:54 pm 0

It's undoable, I think.

It's a botch at fixing the problem, but it's the only option until the volume cap gets hacked.

matt

ps: still looking for a 16GB here.

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:02 pm 0

sty wrote:
Sickboy wrote:Low volume really pissing me off now. It's just nowhere near what I need for schlepping around honking, rumbling, shouty old London.
I know it's not really the answer, but in leue of finding a hack to reset the volume limiter why not get a pair of isolating headphones.

Can you not just get more sensitive headphones? I've never understood
this volume limiting, surely there just needs to be a warning. Mind you,
I never understood why all these *extra* guards had to be installed on
machinery at work slowing operation after someone had an accident
despite training and the obvious warning sign.
I was told by HR "you can't assume that someone will read a sign"

It's always the equipment, never the human at fault.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:30 pm 0

goldfish wrote:Not convinced this is a good thing to do, personally... doesn't it just flatten the dynamic range of your music? I know Rod doesn't care much about sound quality ( ) but it would give me the shits, personally.

"Flatten the dynamic range of your music", of MP3's that have most likely been felched off P2P, on a portable device? You're shitting me. We're not exactly dealing with high end audiophile source and playback methods are we?

Just give your tunes a volume boost, Sickboy. It works. What's the worst that can happen? Back 'em up if you're worried but I wouldn't be too precious over some MP3's.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:33 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
goldfish wrote:Not convinced this is a good thing to do, personally... doesn't it just flatten the dynamic range of your music? I know Rod doesn't care much about sound quality ( ) but it would give me the shits, personally.
"Flatten the dynamic range of your music", of MP3's that have most likely been felched off P2P, on a portable device? You're shitting me. We're not exactly dealing with high end audiophile source and playback methods are we?

Just give your tunes a volume boost, Sickboy. It works. What's the worst that can happen? Back 'em up if you're worried but I wouldn't be too precious over some MP3's.

I've always assumed (maybe wrongly) that the volume adjustment was merely a playback function and doesn't alter the original file. Probably just an ID tag or something to add a bit of gain to the playing. I use it on some vinyl rips that were too quiet and it's fine if you don't go overboard.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:52 pm 0

There's a gain tag in mp3s, stuff like mp3gain can set it. I'd be astounded if it was doing more than resetting that. It'd be silly for mp3 not to be pre-normalized, so I'd be astonished if this was lossy.

hyphz · Post by **hyphz** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:01 am 0

Still no sign in Reading

I'm also kind of perturbed by this: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22006 ... ser-pocket

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:04 am 0

I'm returning my Nano for a refund today. I was listening to it on the train home from work last night when all sound stopped. I looked around the menus and discovered that all my album graphics were suddenly corrupt and none of my music or video would play. Even the built in games wouldn't load anymore. All the menus still work fine.

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:33 pm 0

God bless PC World.

First shop I tried after getting of the tube at Warren Street. Result.

16GB Touch

Post by **RiK** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:17 pm 0

Oh shite. I just accidentally had a play with a Touch in John Lewis.

It really is all manner of lovely isn't it.

Sadly they didn't have it connected to any Wifi in store so I couldn't actually try Safari but everything else was awesome.

I did think it was a little bit odd though that you can edit your contacts list but not your calendar. I realise they need to keep some spanglies for the iPhone but that seemed a little odd to me.

matt · Post by **matt** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 9:07 pm 0

This thing is unreal. Amazing stuff.

Now, is there any way I can see how far through the current playing song I am?

edit: found it pg25 http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPod_t ... _Guide.pdf tap the album cover on screen - of course!

matt

slo-mo · Post by **slo-mo** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:06 pm 0

Got one this morning in Currys in Glasgow. This thing is incredible! I've not enjoyed a new piece of tech this much since the first iPod!

PS am posting from bed

slo-mo · Post by **slo-mo** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:12 pm 0

just realized you can zoom a web page with two fingers, amazing!