iPod Shuffle Released

[Fredstar]

Just ordered a 512 Shuffle for running and general light use and travelling. It is a absolutely genious idea from Apple and for £69...why the hell not?! I need a usb data pen as well so it is just great.
I already have a 4th gen ipod 20gb which i will use for maybe long journeys or whatever.
I am forecasting a million being sold when a million are available in shops

 

[jung_offender]

What size did you order and when?

I ordered a 512 MB as 120 songs@4minutes = 8hours which is about as long as the battery is likely to last. Also, even if I use it during a marathon (not f**kin likely) I won't ever get through 1/2 of the songs in any single session. I have my iPod for longer trips, etc.

I ordered it the day it came out 12-01-05 (in the UK) from Apple (0800 039 10 10).

 

[jhomayne]

There doesn't appear to be many options for Autofill -- only which playlist/library to fill from..

...My idea was to pre-make playlists for filling the shuffle. Say you wanted dance songs for working out, you could make a playlist with songs from that genre and then autofill from that playlist.

aren't you contradicting yourself there?

according to what you wrote you can autofill from playlists, yet then you say that you wish you could auto-fill from a pre-made playlist?

 

[scott182]

aren't you contradicting yourself there?

according to what you wrote you can autofill from playlists, yet then you say that you wish you could auto-fill from a pre-made playlist?

Sorry, jhomayne, I guess I worded it wrong. I didn't mean to imply that you can't autofill from playlists, I was giving suggestions to get around the limitations of autofill. We can probably expect that in future versions of iTunes there will be more built-in ways to autofill the shuffle.

 

[rog]

Picked up a 512 MB shuffle today at the Somerset Apple Store in Troy, MI. They only had 3 available, and no 1 GB until Sat. 1/22. I haven't used an iPod or iPod mini before, for various reasons.

Hopefully I can help and answer some questions people have, and share some of my initial thoughts.

Deefuzz, they do come with 2 white Apple stickers.

Doctor Q, the lanyard cap and USB cap are quite secure. You wouldn't have to worry about it flying off -- you have to give it a pretty solid pull.

rog, these should work with any USB port on a Mac or PC, according to the article referred to a few posts earlier, they are MS-DOS formatted, so they'll work on both systems, presumably Linux as well. If you wanted to import a new CD on a PC and then transfer it to a Mac, you could make storage space on the shuffle and store the files on there as well as putting the songs on the "iPod partition." Then you could listen to them on the way home and easily transfer them to your Mac without re-importing from CD.

There doesn't appear to be many options for Autofill -- only which playlist/library to fill from, whether to replace all songs, to choose songs randomly (as opposed to in order??), and to choose higher rated songs more often. My idea was to pre-make playlists for filling the shuffle. Say you wanted dance songs for working out, you could make a playlist with songs from that genre and then autofill from that playlist.

I don't have an iPod or iPod mini to compare to, but the sound quality and volume levels are fantastic. And you can certainly fast forward/reverse by holding down the skip buttons.

Maybe someone can answer this for me: since iPod shuffles have a true OFF position, and no internal clock or anything like that, would I be correct in assuming there is no power trickle like iPods and iPod minis?

Hope this helps answer a few questions. Any more, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer -- I haven't had too much time to play with it yet.

Awesome Scott, thank you! It looks like all my concerns have been addressed. Was at the Emeryville, CA (across the bridge from SF) yesterday and no sign of the shuffle at all, not even on display, whereas the SF flagship store had about 8 or so to play with and a whole table to display them. Now if I can just find them in stock at a store before my vacation Feb 10th!

 

[davedrivesamini]

I ordered my 1gb shuffle last wednesday, but it's still waiting to be shipped on or before the 26th.

Going back to the lanyard thing coming off, wouldn't it be fairly easy for someone to just walk past you and yank it off? Especially when you're on the tube or something.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick? Does the lanyard attach to the shuffle instead of the cap?


Dave

 

[Deefuzz]

Picked up a 512 MB shuffle today at the Somerset Apple Store in Troy, MI. They only had 3 available, and no 1 GB until Sat. 1/22. I haven't used an iPod or iPod mini before, for various reasons.

Hopefully I can help and answer some questions people have, and share some of my initial thoughts.

Deefuzz, they do come with 2 white Apple stickers.

Doctor Q, the lanyard cap and USB cap are quite secure. You wouldn't have to worry about it flying off -- you have to give it a pretty solid pull.

rog, these should work with any USB port on a Mac or PC, according to the article referred to a few posts earlier, they are MS-DOS formatted, so they'll work on both systems, presumably Linux as well. If you wanted to import a new CD on a PC and then transfer it to a Mac, you could make storage space on the shuffle and store the files on there as well as putting the songs on the "iPod partition." Then you could listen to them on the way home and easily transfer them to your Mac without re-importing from CD.

There doesn't appear to be many options for Autofill -- only which playlist/library to fill from, whether to replace all songs, to choose songs randomly (as opposed to in order??), and to choose higher rated songs more often. My idea was to pre-make playlists for filling the shuffle. Say you wanted dance songs for working out, you could make a playlist with songs from that genre and then autofill from that playlist.

I don't have an iPod or iPod mini to compare to, but the sound quality and volume levels are fantastic. And you can certainly fast forward/reverse by holding down the skip buttons.

Maybe someone can answer this for me: since iPod shuffles have a true OFF position, and no internal clock or anything like that, would I be correct in assuming there is no power trickle like iPods and iPod minis?

Hope this helps answer a few questions. Any more, feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer -- I haven't had too much time to play with it yet.

Thanks man!

 

[TENBLUE7™]

Think the lanyard's attached to the cap so in theory they'd just get a cap.

Ordered mine as soon as the apple uk store loaded after the keynote finished, shipping date is on or before the 25th. Hope it's before, are they shipping direct from the factories? No doubt the states will get there's before europe will.

I've heard far too many stories of people being mugged thanks to the white headphones giving the game away so some black sony ex-71's are on order as soon as I get a shipping confirmation.

 

[scott182]

The lanyard is a replacement for the cap; you take off the USB cap and replace it with a cap that has the lanyard through it, and the iPod hangs down from there. So someone could pull the iPod off and you'd be left with just a lanyard, although it doesn't come off too easily.

 

[TENBLUE7™]

How thick am I?, very, yeah if it was hung around your neck they'd get the ipod and you'd be left with the lanyard and cap.

Mine will be in my pocket.

 

[kugino]

Sorry, jhomayne, I guess I worded it wrong. I didn't mean to imply that you can't autofill from playlists, I was giving suggestions to get around the limitations of autofill. We can probably expect that in future versions of iTunes there will be more built-in ways to autofill the shuffle.

yeah, i've already started some playlists in anticipation of my 1gb. let's see...there's "top rated", "work-out", "running", and "train". autofilling from set playlists is actually very powerful...the only option i would like would be to convert AL files to a higher bitrate than 128 when automatically converting songs for filling the shuffle.

 

[3Memos]

The lanyard is a replacement for the cap; you take off the USB cap and replace it with a cap that has the lanyard through it, and the iPod hangs down from there. So someone could pull the iPod off and you'd be left with just a lanyard, although it doesn't come off too easily.

No thief risks getting caught and beat up over a $99 item. If you were a thief, you'd go after the most expensive items that you can get away with with the least amount of force or risk of getting caught.

 

[wdlove]

No thief risks getting caught and beat up over a $99 item. If you were a thief, you'd go after the most expensive items that you can get away with with the least amount of force or risk of getting caught.

Although the novelty of the shuffle might draw a thief. I'm not a thief, but $99 would certainly be a good reason.

 

[Doctor Q]

When I'm stealing from people on the subway, I usually reach for the iPod shuffle hanging around their neck and ask them "What's this?". While they are pulling it away and holding it close to them to protect it, I lift their wallet. Of course, I'd rather have the iPod shuffle, but I'll just have to settle for cash and credit cards.

 

[3Memos]

Yeah, I'd rather go after your credit cards. With that I can buy as many shuffles as I want.

 

[restless~native]

Yeah, sure I'll be pissed if someone yanked my iPod shuffle...then I'll get over it and just go out and buy another one.

But if someone stole my 20 gig iPod?

The thought of carrying all that music around and then it gets stolen, is unsettling. That's why the iPod shuffle is a good solution for me.

Like I said, people at my gym eye my iPod everytime I go there...there's another guy that brings his iPod....after talking with him, it seems like we both feel the same....our Gold's Gym is not exactly in the best part of town.

We are both getting the iPod Shuffle.......

 

[afields]

My iPod shuffle is shipping!!

 

[3Memos]

Like I said, people at my gym eye my iPod everytime I go there...there's another guy that brings his iPod....

In my gym, half the people own iPods, the rest use those old bulky Sony CD players they have strapped around their waist. I sometimes just want to walk up to them and show them my mini.

 

[warmd]

if it had even a 3 digit display....

it could have doubled as a rectal thermometer!

 

[andiwm2003]

fm transmitter for ipod shuffle

i saw today at walmart that there are fm transmitters for your car for usb memory sticks. you plug them into a cigarette ligther and then you plug the memory stick in.

would that work with the ipod shuffle as well?

at least it should be possible to play audiobooks from the memory stick partition. and i guess you could recharge the ipod from there as well.

has anybody of you such a transmitter and would you like to try it? please post how it works.

thanks, andi

 

[gatorron]

Shipping dates, please

Ok, here we go again. It's iMac G5 shipping dates posted time all over again. C'mon, I know you want to know.

Product # Product Description Qty Price Ext Price
__________ ______________________________ ______ ________
M9725LL/A IPOD SHUFFLE 1G-USA 1
M9757G/A IPOD SHUFFLE DOCK-GEN 1
M9758G/A IPOD SHUFFLE CASE-GEN 1
TB943LL/A Nike HJ20 Headphones-USA 1

My order. Nike Headphone have shipped. Open on all else. And get this: The dock and case aren't scheduled to ship until 2/24!

 

[SoccerEBA3]

I wonder how many of these would actually sell if it wasn't tied to apple and the magnificent iPod.....
I personally will be passing on this one just because it'll get slightly annoying to have to guess at which playlist is next and I just think it will be hard to pull off without a screen... it's just essential

 

[gwangung]

I wonder how many of these would actually sell if it wasn't tied to apple and the magnificent iPod.....
I personally will be passing on this one just because it'll get slightly annoying to have to guess at which playlist is next and I just think it will be hard to pull off without a screen... it's just essential

Well, for you it is. For a lot of folks,a screen just isn't necessary because they're in shuffle mode already.

And the whole point of product families is to tie things together and leverage past products into new areas....

 

[razorme]

I am considering using this for a nursery as a stationary setup. Will it play if it is constantly plugged into a USB power source (but no computer - ie. the power adapter) like the iPod does?

Also, could one just buy a powered USB2 hub to use as a stand alone power supply for the iPs?

 

[Flowbee]

No thief risks getting caught and beat up over a $99 item.

$99 buys a lot of crack.