Comments on: Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part one http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/ Everything but steak. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Brodie http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-161907 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:49:05 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-161907 ipod shuffle sucks, get something like a touch or, classic. your not cooler than someone with a classic. or touch. I mean really, your not cooler than anyone there at the commute like you thought cause they could just come and show you a touch than whos laughin. :P ipod shuffle sucks, get something like a touch or, classic. your not cooler than someone with a classic. or touch. I mean really, your not cooler than anyone there at the commute like you thought cause they could just come and show you a touch than whos laughin. :P

]]> by: Ricardipus http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-82282 Wed, 28 May 2008 01:25:08 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-82282 iPod shuffle = irritating. I bought one for my wife to put in her nice shiny new car, which unlike Sev's vehicle has an Aux in jack (now, MY car... that's a different story. Sigh.) iTunes is just plain irritating - I really just can't get my head around the interface and how I can't organize things into folders and the like. But maybe that's just me. Biggest problem I see with the Shuffle is the complete and utter lack of display and the complete and utter lack of being able to put multiple independent playlists on it and flip through them one by one. But again, maybe that's just me and I don't know what I'm doing. I held out from buying any Apple stuff for years and this is the first foray. Sigh. And DRM is just.plain.annoying. In general. Ask me about my Sony Minidisc sometime and its draconian rules about what can and can't go on it. Terrible, terrible stuff. P.S. Yes, I know I am *very* late to the party with this comment. iPod shuffle = irritating. I bought one for my wife to put in her nice shiny new car, which unlike Sev’s vehicle has an Aux in jack (now, MY car… that’s a different story. Sigh.)

iTunes is just plain irritating - I really just can’t get my head around the interface and how I can’t organize things into folders and the like. But maybe that’s just me.

Biggest problem I see with the Shuffle is the complete and utter lack of display and the complete and utter lack of being able to put multiple independent playlists on it and flip through them one by one. But again, maybe that’s just me and I don’t know what I’m doing. I held out from buying any Apple stuff for years and this is the first foray.

Sigh.

And DRM is just.plain.annoying. In general. Ask me about my Sony Minidisc sometime and its draconian rules about what can and can’t go on it. Terrible, terrible stuff.

P.S. Yes, I know I am *very* late to the party with this comment.

]]> by: Zok http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-39913 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:22:03 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-39913 People of Earth. I am Zok from the planet Zorko. We have decided to invade your planet and destroy all human life on it before it too late. People of Earth, you are a parasite and must be destroyed. A virus will be unleashed on your people in November 2007. Within 3 months from this date most of the human life will have been wiped out. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. People of Earth. I am Zok from the planet Zorko. We have decided to invade your planet and destroy all human life on it before it too late. People of Earth, you are a parasite and must be destroyed. A virus will be unleashed on your people in November 2007. Within 3 months from this date most of the human life will have been wiped out. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

]]> by: Bree http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-27495 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:41:16 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-27495 hey yeah i figured it out already all i need to do was check off update checked songs and convert higher bit rate songs and now it works, see? did that take little ol me very long to figure out by myself at school with two teachers around me who are totally oblivious?? naw!! hey yeah i figured it out already all i need to do was check off update checked songs and convert higher bit rate songs and now it works, see? did that take little ol me very long to figure out by myself at school with two teachers around me who are totally oblivious?? naw!!

]]> by: Bree http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-27494 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:36:15 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-27494 hey, my bf just got me a shuffle, the blue 1GB, and it does suck. Obvs i cant tell him that, but it wont keep songs on it n e more, like after i put them on, they dont stay on when i go to unplug it, and luckily today there are a lot better looking mp3 players out there then just the iPod. Its a sad thing though that it keeps doing this because i really like the thing at first. and its funny that a bunch of guys who can talk all technical and nerdy and stuff, and i dont really know anything, but i already knew how to connect a shuffle to multiple computers the first day! all you need to do is play around with it and not be arfaid to experiment with it, and i learned this doing it secretly at school! i also download songs at school and have downloaded azureus , and hitman contracts says im a ninja extrordinaire! yeah im totally random, but i need to go try to fix my ipod now!! you guys are great entertainment!! hey, my bf just got me a shuffle, the blue 1GB, and it does suck. Obvs i cant tell him that, but it wont keep songs on it n e more, like after i put them on, they dont stay on when i go to unplug it, and luckily today there are a lot better looking mp3 players out there then just the iPod. Its a sad thing though that it keeps doing this because i really like the thing at first. and its funny that a bunch of guys who can talk all technical and nerdy and stuff, and i dont really know anything, but i already knew how to connect a shuffle to multiple computers the first day! all you need to do is play around with it and not be arfaid to experiment with it, and i learned this doing it secretly at school! i also download songs at school and have downloaded azureus , and hitman contracts says im a ninja extrordinaire! yeah im totally random, but i need to go try to fix my ipod now!! you guys are great entertainment!!

]]> by: BuzzerMatrix-Open Buzzer Blog » Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part one http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-13761 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:01:24 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-13761 [...] Details: here Buzz it:  Related it!  Bookmark it!  Digg it!  reddit [...] […] Details: here Buzz it:  Related it!  Bookmark it!  Digg it!  reddit […]

]]> by: Michael http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-12559 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:14:12 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-12559 You're obviously not all that smart with iPods are you? Well you do know you can sync your shuffle and put it on 5 different comps right? And you can just go into 'My Computer', show hidden files, go to iPod_control, copy the music and send it to iTunes without syncing it too? THINK about things before you post about a topic you don't entirely know the truth about. You’re obviously not all that smart with iPods are you? Well you do know you can sync your shuffle and put it on 5 different comps right? And you can just go into ‘My Computer’, show hidden files, go to iPod_control, copy the music and send it to iTunes without syncing it too? THINK about things before you post about a topic you don’t entirely know the truth about.

]]> by: Gluemeat » Document » Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 4 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4779 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:56:08 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4779 [...] - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 1 - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 2 - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 3 [...] […] - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 1 - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 2 - Why the iPod Shuffle sucks, part 3 […]

]]> by: David Olvera http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4677 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:49:12 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4677 "Dude, I bought the iPod because I wanted a portable player, and it the nicest looking one out there. The others, with LCD screens, in black or red, just seem to me reminiscent of cheap digital watches. For the style-conscious, iPod is the only alternative." I prefer functionality over style and thus far I have not found any iPods I have tried out or had demonstrated to me have anything really blow me away. The unified style of Mac lines just bothers me on a concious and subconcious level. I would actually prefer an older looking Soviet kitsch style player but that's my own style going through. I actually enjoy my computer boxes being beige and monsterous looking (brutalism is a valid style bastards) instead of the dominant trend to eschew sharp lines. Some of it is also my distate for candy colors (the other colored iWhatever stuff). Most of the items I own are in one color: gray/silver. “Dude, I bought the iPod because I wanted a portable player, and it the nicest looking one out there. The others, with LCD screens, in black or red, just seem to me reminiscent of cheap digital watches. For the style-conscious, iPod is the only alternative.”

I prefer functionality over style and thus far I have not found any iPods I have tried out or had demonstrated to me have anything really blow me away. The unified style of Mac lines just bothers me on a concious and subconcious level.

I would actually prefer an older looking Soviet kitsch style player but that’s my own style going through. I actually enjoy my computer boxes being beige and monsterous looking (brutalism is a valid style bastards) instead of the dominant trend to eschew sharp lines.

Some of it is also my distate for candy colors (the other colored iWhatever stuff). Most of the items I own are in one color: gray/silver.

]]> by: TN http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4657 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:20:16 +0000 http://www.gluemeat.com/2006/08/18/why-the-ipod-shuffle-sucks-part-one/#comment-4657 geez if I knew you were so rational I wouldn't have tried to incite a flamewar in the first place. When I said Angry Apple Fan boy I didn't mean you specifically, only just that your post was kind of the boilerplate response that The Cult of Mac makes to any kind of derision of apple products. Your point about Mike's ineptitude with the autosyncing was spot on, and in fact if it wasn't for his boneheaded-jump-to-conclusiveness we wouldn't have had any misunderstanding in the first place. geez if I knew you were so rational I wouldn’t have tried to incite a flamewar in the first place.
When I said Angry Apple Fan boy I didn’t mean you specifically, only just that your post was kind of the boilerplate response that The Cult of Mac makes to any kind of derision of apple products.
Your point about Mike’s ineptitude with the autosyncing was spot on, and in fact if it wasn’t for his boneheaded-jump-to-conclusiveness we wouldn’t have had any misunderstanding in the first place.

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