iPod iPod nano software version 1.0.2

[SactoGuy18]

I think Apple may tweak the firmware on the 3G nano further within the next 30 days to improve Cover Flow response. I expect a 1.0.3 firmware upgrade probably by the end of October 2007, if only to ensure full MacOS X 10.5 compatibility.

 

[JCC]

[I have an iPod classic. I assume, though, that it's the same software.]
It now displays artwork associated with chapters of enhance podcasts now. [i.e., pressing the center button now shows you the artwork.]

 

[1984]

Contacts are not fixed yet. It's still mixing up work and home data and not displaying contact photos for me.

 

[sam10685]

Now I really want one of these... I have a 200 dollar gift card in my room still that I got last Christmas. I can probably find 50 more bucks somewhere. (Black or silver thought. That is the question. I'm thinking black.)

 

[James.Paul]

Has anyone tried connecting the iPod camera connector to an updated classic? just wonder if the update lets them work together. Can't buy a classic until I know it will connect to my camera.

thanks

 

[robertnq]

Album Art Fix

Album Art still won't sync correctly...😡

 

[rockthecasbah]

Great update! The menus are unbelievably fast, quite a difference from the launch software that's for sure! Classic's amazing now, even Coverflow is good (though artwork is still slow to pop up sometimes, a hardware limitation not software one 😱)

 

[phillipjfry]

So did this fix the sensitivity of the wheel on the classic? That was the only thing keeping me from buying it in the first place. Unless all the display models at the store took such a beating that they have become harder than expected just to scroll through the menus. 🙂

 

[Palestrina]

So does this finally fix the missing video out that classics were lacking from the last iPod generation?

 

[markrich]

ipod classic update

I have noticed with my 80GB classic one improvement and that isn't on the iPod but in iTunes. Previously while deleting an iTunes track while it was importing another the performance was very very slow. Now it seems back to normal speed. Did the presence of the iPod cause this? I guess it must have.

On the down side; three localisation problems still persist;

a) After setting the time to show in normal 24 hour format the screensaver still shows the time in the 12 hour one.

b) the date is still shown in the American format (m/d/y) even when the timezone is selected as UK.

c) the calendar is still showing the first day of the week as Sunday and not the ISO standard of Monday used in the rest of the world and not in accordance with the timezone selected.

Those are easy things to fix so please Apple sort it out in the next version! How hard can it be to add a few IF THEN statements to the code?

Marky

 

[markrich]

scrolling speed

So did this fix the sensitivity of the wheel on the classic? That was the only thing keeping me from buying it in the first place. Unless all the display models at the store took such a beating that they have become harder than expected just to scroll through the menus. 🙂

I was concerned about this too when playing with the demo model in the shop. Much slower than my old 30GB 3G model.

However I think the mechanism just needs to wear in. The scolling speeds seem fine now and although never as fast as my old 3G model they are faster than when I first bought my 80GB Classic.

Marky

 

[Stridder44]

Safari feels snappier.

My front lawn looks greener. Food tastes better.

 

[saxondale.]

Wow, my 80GB Classic is so much more snappier now. That was my biggest complaint, even since the 1.0.1 update, the menus were very slow.

 

[nemaslov]

Great update! The menus are unbelievably fast, quite a difference from the launch software that's for sure! Classic's amazing now, even Coverflow is good (though artwork is still slow to pop up sometimes, a hardware limitation not software one 😱)

But don't you think that it also takes time for covers to load in on your computer iTunes? I have a Intel Mac with about 105GB of music and when you flip quickly through coverflow, it does take time for album art to load in as you go. And that's on a powerful Mac so I can't imagine any iPod with tons of music loaded to really be ably to keep up with cover art loaded immediately. There will always be a slight lag when someone has a very large library. Am I wrong here?

 

[narco]

What about games, dude

 

[Nicky G]

So did this fix the sensitivity of the wheel on the classic? That was the only thing keeping me from buying it in the first place. Unless all the display models at the store took such a beating that they have become harder than expected just to scroll through the menus. 🙂

IMHO, the click wheel is WAY better now, and doesn't lag and such when scrolling. Perfect. My Classic 80GB that I was 90% happy with is now "perfect." Brilliant.

 

[kajitox]

Everything is obscenely faster and coverflow does work better than before, but they still haven't fixed the retardedly small desktop icon on a mac.

 

[hayesk]

Apparently the rumors about Apple locking it down are true. Sad if Apple is really doing this to milk more money for accessories rather than having a good technical reason.
🙁

Here's a good technical reason:

I don't know this for a fact but this makes more sense to me: iPods are getting smaller but with more capacity. Apple removed the video encoding chip from the iPod and placed it in the cable to cut costs, and reduce the size of the iPod. This chip is not a DRM chip or anything like that - it's just a video decoder and D/A converter.

The new iPods now send the digital stream to the cable with the chip in it. The chip in the cable decodes the bits into the composite, s-video, component, etc. signal - depending on what cable you are using.

No conspiracy theory there folks. Think about it - Apple has a lot of accessory makers that pa them royalties now - they didn't change this just to tick them off. They did it to keep the iPod competitively designed and priced.

 

[TC Schiller]

Everything is obscenely faster and coverflow does work better than before, but they still haven't fixed the retardedly small desktop icon on a mac.

What on earth are you talking about??

 

[Virgil-TB2]

is the firmware enabling video through the headphone jack?

thank you.

I am still downloading my update, but I am fairly certain that this is a hardware issue and not firmware or software.

All iPods and iPhones do video-out through the dock connector only but they can all use the same cable and/or dock to do it now.

The days of using the headphone jack for this are over for good.

 

[Virgil-TB2]

What on earth are you talking about??

I think he is talking about the desktop icon being ... you know, small.

It never bothered me much (at least not enough to use the "retarded" modifier), but it's pretty clear what he is talking about.

 

[MrCrowbar]

What on earth are you talking about??

When you connect the new nano to your Mac, it appers tiny on the desktop icon. That's probably to represent its size, i.e. if you have a classic, nano and a touch connected at the same time, the proportions are right.

 

[phillipjfry]

IMHO, the click wheel is WAY better now, and doesn't lag and such when scrolling. Perfect. My Classic 80GB that I was 90% happy with is now "perfect." Brilliant.

Hopefully my Apple store updates the classic iPods and I'll give them a whirl. If they seem to respond better or I just give it a chance, I might snag one.
I didn't know if the sluggish wheel was cause of hardware chances, or buggy software.

 

[nemaslov]

When you connect the new nano to your Mac, it appers tiny on the desktop icon. That's probably to represent its size, i.e. if you have a classic, nano and a touch connected at the same time, the proportions are right.

Yes it seems to reflect the pod and color. Mine shows up large and silver. I've seen several and they seem be show your exact pod.

 

[Mr. Zarniwoop]

You can now select video out without having to buy Apple's expensive cable.

You can change the video out to Off, Ask, On

Go to Videos -> Settings

Previously you needed to plug it into an Apple Universal Dock to get this to work.

While you can now get to the setting, it's still locked out. When I try to play video in my Denon ASD-1R dock, the iPod shows a picture of a dock connector cable with the words "TV Out Enabled" and "Please Connect Video Accessory" on the screen.