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perhaps you should start ripping your CDs at a higher rate, and buy some better headphones.
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Coverflow on iPod? (Video)
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perhaps you should start ripping your CDs at a higher rate, and buy some better headphones.
T'hain Esh Kelch
macrumors 604
Why is it that the moment I typed "firmware update", I just knew someone would bring this up? I'm sure if Apple ever again plans on adding any unadvertised value to any products they've already sold via a firmware update, they won't be making that same mistake and will charge at least $20 for it, because they know that even if they charged 5/5.5G owners a single cent for getting cover flow on their ipods like the 6G's and iphones will then have as standard, most would prefer to spend $0.02 on forums moaning about it, so they may as well make some money out of the ingrates who don't think for a second of the 1-4G/photo owners who weren't given any choice but to buy a whole new ipod to get coverflow functionality, even though they were made no less promises by apple on the matter than the 5G owners were.
Personally, though, I think if ipods come with coverflow before itunes offers downsampling on the fly, apple will have made a stand upon style-over-content that might send me looking elsewhere for my music storage needs. And there is no way I'm settling for an 8GB phone unless I can squish my lossless files on there as AACs somehow.
MrCrowbar
macrumors 68020
This looks like the classic video running on an iPod. Remember that episode of Family Guy, where peter pretends playing keyboard like a pro, but it's actually just the demo running on it? And that guy who says "he's a big fat phony?" this is pretty much the same.
Indeed, there would be the "menu bar" if it were real.
Can someone fake front row on an iPod? Makes no sense but sure would looks cool, right? Include the theatrical trailer just for the hell of it. 😉
Indeed, there would be the "menu bar" if it were real.
Can someone fake front row on an iPod? Makes no sense but sure would looks cool, right? Include the theatrical trailer just for the hell of it. 😉
As fake as this seems (everyone else posted reasons already), the one thing that makes me still believe this may be real is that it goes directly from "Coverflow" to the Stadium Arcadium track listing.
I just tried a few things with my iPod, and I can't go from a video straight to a music playlist.😕 So this leaves a few possibilities:
1. I missed something, and it is possible to go straight from a video to a music playlist.
2. There's a way to record clean footage of an iPod that I don't know about, and the iPod menu was part of the video on the iPod.
3. The creator(s) of the YouTube video put together the iPod menu part of the video from scratch (which probably wouldn't be too hard to do).
4. The whole thing is real.
I just tried a few things with my iPod, and I can't go from a video straight to a music playlist.😕 So this leaves a few possibilities:
1. I missed something, and it is possible to go straight from a video to a music playlist.
2. There's a way to record clean footage of an iPod that I don't know about, and the iPod menu was part of the video on the iPod.
3. The creator(s) of the YouTube video put together the iPod menu part of the video from scratch (which probably wouldn't be too hard to do).
4. The whole thing is real.
wordmunger
macrumors 603
Even if it was real, it would suck -- he has to rotate his thumb about 5 times to go through three album covers.
moodipaper
macrumors newbie
Flip-book!
I think this looks like the trick where you turn a video into a series of jpegs and then load those jpegs to iPod. That way, you can scroll through the jpegs like a flip book. I'm not seeing what everyone else seems to be seeing with "timing issues", but I did notice something else: In iTunes, when you stop to reverse directions in coverflow, the album sort of "snaps" to the center of the screen. In this trick video, the covers never do that smooth glide and snap-to-center, rather, they move (IMO) in synch with the thumb movements. Nice trick video.
I think this looks like the trick where you turn a video into a series of jpegs and then load those jpegs to iPod. That way, you can scroll through the jpegs like a flip book. I'm not seeing what everyone else seems to be seeing with "timing issues", but I did notice something else: In iTunes, when you stop to reverse directions in coverflow, the album sort of "snaps" to the center of the screen. In this trick video, the covers never do that smooth glide and snap-to-center, rather, they move (IMO) in synch with the thumb movements. Nice trick video.
IIRC The 5g iPod can play music video's. All you need to do is encode the video, and pass it off as a music video. It should come up in the album pane as a track, like it does in iTunes, so he/she could play the "music video" and press menu to go back to the album pane.
But, I agree, its fake. But I'd sure like it on my 'pod.
I'm sure apple have tried to see if it works and may be close to a release if it does. I thought they would have an update right after 7.1 with coverflow feature for ipod. They seem so proud of coverflow that if it can happen it probably will. But yeah this is as fake as that google maps ipod.