Just downloaded Firmware Version 1.1. The minor issues I had (mainly sorting of Coverflow) remain... The cover-flow images seem a bit larger, but I might just be paranoid.
Anybody else notice something different???
MacBook,
Mac OS X (10.4.10),
M-Audio FW410 iPod Classic 160 GB
I have spent time trying various things and it seems to be random when it happens; sometimes it does it in pause mode, sometimes when music is playing, sometimes when the unit switches itself off, but it seems to be completely random whether it does it or not and it's really starting to wind me up.
Static here too when turned off. Randomn though. I think this upgrade was really for the rental option with very few bugs fixed. My Logitec mm 50 remote only works on on/off. Play, next song etc doesn't work and like yours the volume is messed up when I take it out of the speakers.
Can someone confirm if this static is causing a power drain?
Also, I'm in agreement with Canibal. This update really addresses the rental option support and not really bug fixes.
I'm really starting to think that this is the end of the line for the iPod as we know it today. I think Apple's pushing for everyone to move to the flash-based iPhone and iTouch units. I also think they'll do what they can to patch up the iPod Classic as best as they can until they come out with a higher capacity iPhone or iTouch. Once that happens, kiss iPod Classic support good-bye.
And given their recent fumbles with their firmware for this unit, I think this will happen sooner rather than later. I'll tell you one thing: Whoever is in charge of their QA really needs to spend more than 10 minutes to check these updates before they hit the street. It seems Apple's taken the Microsoft standard of letting their users do their QA for them.
No real complaint or obvious advantage on the upgrade so far, except morning one after the upgrade last night my Pod failed to play music while docked in my Hi-Fi speakers in alarm mode, therefore causing me to oversleep some. I had to get up and dismiss the alarm and navigate through a few menus before it would actually start to play. Maybe I should have done a hard re-boot after the upgrade. Will see if it repeats problem tomorrow. Other than that no big whoop for 1.1. I was really pleased with 1.1.3 as far a the wake-up alarm, because it was finally reliable once again. Not a real problem for most, but that's my take so far.
I too never had issues with my 2 previous Pods until the Classic came along. I hope they get it ironed out some day. I fear the device is becoming too complicated to go across the full media spectrum that everyone is expecting it to handle. When one thing gets fixed, 5 other things get broken and programmers end up chasing numerous wildfires. I don't envy the job of whomever is trying to fix this mess. Not to mention the two very different trails that the current Pods are positioned on. They can only get farther from each other, and one can only guess where it is going. Apple, you've given us great products in the past. Question is now, will the Classic die or rise again!
Can someone confirm if this static is causing a power drain?
no question about it. speakers/earbuds need power to provide any kind of song, whether it's static or real music, so it's definitely drawing power. How much and how does it affect your battery life, I don't know, but it's not minute.
No crashes and no restores required. There were two issues that I've encoutnered that I had hoped would get fixed:
The lowest volume setting does not go to zero output - still broken
Static or ugly noise after shutting off or sleeping - ???
The noise thing is truly random on mine. I've heard it a couple times but could never repeat it whenever I tried. After the upgrade I haven't heard it, but that means nothing. If you all are still getting it, it's still there.
prices on solid state harddrives are going to drop fast. 64G are already commercially available. Probably won't be in the current price range for a year or two though...
Has anyone noticed that adding new cover art is hit/miss in Album Flow? I added some albums. While I can see all the new albums in artist or album view in coverflow only a few are visible.
Has iTunes become picky about album art size/dimensions?
just go into your ipod in itunes and go to the music tab i think, unmark 'show album artwork' and then sync, then mark it and sync, all artwork should then show.
What in the world? I had a different word in place of stinks and it censored it. Anyway it rhymnes with bucks, just take away the "b" and insert "s".
Hiss in earbuds when turned off as everyone else is stating. Ipod will sync for approx. 10 seconds then say disconnect. Will not sync my podcasts anymore. I've reset my ipod, I've reinstalled Itunes, I've jumped through every hoop available with help gathered from support section. I've finally just restored my ipod and it's syncing the songs again, finally but still not syncing my podcasts.
