{"id":6262,"date":"2012-09-12T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2012-09-12T17:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:56:43","slug":"ipod-good-news-and-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6262","title":{"rendered":"iPod: Good News and Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4986\" title=\"userpic=ipod\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicipod.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>You know I loves me my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipodclassic\/\">iPod Classic 160GB<\/a>. It&#8217;s currently about <del>75%<\/del> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">71%<\/span> full, and my daughter regrets the day she talked me into buying it. So over lunch I watched the live feed anxiously awaiting news of the iPod Updates. During the announcement, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2409618,00.asp\">Apple gave a lot of love to the iPod Touch and Nano<\/a>, and new colors to the Shuffle. No mention of the Classic&#8230; however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/compare-ipod-models\/\">according to the updated Apple comparison page, the Classic still lives<\/a>. Still unchanged. Still having had no Apple love over the last 3 years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/09\/12\/ipod-classic-lives-to-play-another-day\/\">but hanging on<\/a>. So I guess I should be happy for that news.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sad that Apple doesn&#8217;t bring the iOS eco-system to the large capacity users. It would be lovely to have a 192G or 256G solid state iPod (I don&#8217;t think doubling the 64G iPod Touch would do it for people). But we&#8217;re not going to see it this year :-(; further, if we ever do see it, I predict it will be outrageously priced. I&#8217;m guessing Apple presumes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/icloud\/\">everyone wants to keep their music in the cloud<\/a>. That&#8217;s not practical when you have large amounts of music (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/itunes-match\/\">iTunes Match has an upper limit of 25,000 songs<\/a> (more if you purchase from iTunes, but I prefer Amazon DRM-free MP3s for digital music); if you have a 160GB iPod, it&#8217;s not hard to have over 30,000 songs), or are regularly in environments where you are not connected (or connectable) to the cloud. Having the connectivity also limits the ability to use the devices in sensitive environs.<\/p>\n<p>There was one update that has me worried: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1168515\/apple_announces_major_itunes_update.html\">iTunes got love<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t upgraded from 10.4, as I&#8217;ve heard there are problems with iPod Classic interfaces. iTunes is currently at 10.6.2 or 10.7, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/new-itunes\/\">iTunes 11 is coming in October<\/a>.\u00a0 When the new iTunes is released, I&#8217;m unsure if I should try it. It might be worth experimenting with <a href=\"http:\/\/techgage.com\/article\/acronis_true_image_home_2011\/3\">Try and Decide on Acronis to test things<\/a>. I may just stick with 10.4 as long as it works &#8212; after all, if it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t try to fix it. As usual, I&#8217;ll probably just watch <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/community\/ipod\/ipod_classic\">the Apple iPod Classic discussion forum<\/a> to see whether it is working for other people first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I loves me my iPod Classic 160GB. It&#8217;s currently about 75% 71% full, and my daughter regrets the day she talked me into buying it. So over lunch I watched the live feed anxiously awaiting news of the iPod Updates. During the announcement, Apple gave a lot of love to the iPod Touch <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=6262\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-6262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ipod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6262"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6270,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6262\/revisions\/6270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}