[Editor's note: Yes, I realize an iPod hint is not an OS X hint ... but I also know a lot of you have them, so I thought this might be of interest. I'd test this hint myself, but I'm still pod-less...]
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While playing a song on the iPod, holding the > keys will scan backward and forward; this is old hat. But if you click the select button (center), the progress bar turns into a little diamond indicator and the scroll wheel can be used to scan. Pretty cool.
[Editor's note: Yes, I realize an iPod hint is not an OS X hint ... but I also know a lot of you have them, so I thought this might be of interest. I'd test this hint myself, but I'm still pod-less...]
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Another cool feature...
If you press the bottom button you can make the audio pause. If you press the same button again, it picks up exactly where it left off!
Another cool feature...
OMG! You're right!!
Another cool feature...
Here's another tip. If you want your iPod to "resume" so the next time you power it up it starts playing right from where you left it, just hit the pause button and let it auto power-off after a few seconds (I think it's 30 seconds or something). Do this instead of manually shutting it down and the next time you power up, it'll be paused right where you left it.
Great hint!
This is specially great for very long MP3 files. I converted some cassetes to MP3, resulting in very long MP3 files. Now I can go where I want much faster.
Thanks.
Great hint! -- one thing though
If you have songs that are topping in over 20 minutes, you are sucking the life out of that iPod battery. As the song tops 20 min, the cache is filled and the disk is constantly accessed. YOu might want to split that long tape -to-MP3 conversion up a bit.
try mpgtxwrap
Other methods of splitting MP3s
Two other ways of splitting up huge MP3s into song-sized bites:
I Never knew this....
While some people seem to think this hint is stupid, I will admit that I'd never realized it. I've had my iPod for about 6 months, and I knew that pressing the select button switched the display. But I just though it was for looks. I never realized that it changed the functionality of the scroll wheel.
Surprising
It's surprising that more people weren't aware of this. I learned it within a few days of getting my iPod, by inadvertently pressing the center button to toggle between volume/scan. I had a few stressful moments there jumping all over songs while trying to adjust the volume.
All hints are created equal
Lately it seems that there is a lot more hint-bashing going on here. While it is true that some of us know more than others, it is also true that we all come here to learn. If you already know, why go out of your way to make someone else feel inferior? Why should every other hint have a disclaimer from Rob about it's validity?
well said
i couldn't agree more.
All hints are created equal
You are right, of course. I posted the first sarcastic comment in this thread. I'm sorry I did, and would have deleted it after posting it, had there been a way.
All hints are created equal
I too found this hint to be quite a surprise. I have had my iPod for about 2 months and I hadn't found this feature yet.
not a hint
I do agree that we don't really need sarcasms here. But at the same time I really don't think that qualifies as a hint. It's just basic functionality.
Ah well ...
I try my best; I guess I should have held off until I could have found someone with an iPod to tell me this was basic stuff ;-). You win some, you lose some. Hopefully I get more right than I get wrong...
Ah well ...
I don't have an iPod....yet...
Maybe I'm slow but...
I never realized this! And I've had my iPod for over a year. This is a big help to me as I listen to a number of audio books. Do you know how much of a pain it is to get back to your spot using the buttons after you hit the "back" button when you're half way through an 8 hour book. It takes like 20 minutes.
Re: not a hint
If you say that this isn't a hint because it's "basic functionality", you make almost any hint invalid. To a Unix expert, editing one of your config files (or whatever you call them!) in vi or pico is "basic functionality". I still don't know how to do it very well, so it's very valuable to me.
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