Hi Shane,
Another great demo. I saw Mike ask about your other podcasts, and I'd
recommend the one that you did with iTunes and your iPod Shuffle.
shane;.
where can i get more of your podcasts? what other products did u do?
mike
I've posted this a few times about the first language selection, but
basically you want to make sure that the wheel is set as far
counterclockwise as it can go before you press the center button to
select your language as English. That's the one big gotcha.
Actually, while I didn't have trouble getting the Nano 4G sync'd, I
did end up having to fiddle the language menu because I was trying to
press the new English (U.K.) setting to see what difference it makes.
That setting is one click clockwise from the English (U.S.) setting,
and the first time I pressed the center of the wheel to select it
(under language settings) I must have missed the position, so I very
carefully went back, scrolled the wheel all the way counterclockwise
to get English (U.S.), and got that back, then tried again. As far as
I can tell, English (U.K.) works the same way as English (U.S.), since
the voice is set by your default Text-to-Speech voice selection.
David is correct that you don't have to check the "enable spoken
menus" box when you start up if you are running VoiceOver -- this
will automatically be checked on the Summary Menu Page after sync (or
was for me).
You asked about the "Search" option. That's not accessible. It was
also on the 2G Nano menu, and it's a way to find tracks by using the
scroll wheel to choose letters and select them by pressing the center
of the wheel. All you'll hear is 26 different click positions. The
display is supposed to show matching entries.
You can put other playlists on the Nano 4G, including smart
playlists. Since I know you listen to audio books, here's a cute
trick if you have audio books that are mp3 files, and maybe with a
large number of tracks. Create a smart playlist (Command-Option-N)
with two rules: "Album is <name of your book> and Play Count is 0"
Then if you go to the Songs table for the playlist and select all
(Command-A) you can use Get Info (Command-I) to edit, go to the
Options tab, and check the boxes for "Remember Position" and "Skip
When Shuflling". Now these tracks will "Bookmark" and you'll be
returned to the last played position when you restart listening of the
file. But what's even cooler, if you play your Audio Book from the
Playlists menu using the smart playlist you just created, tracks that
you finish listening to will drop off the start of the playlist as
soon as you finish them, and their play count advances to one. They're
still on your iPod if you search under Album, but your playlist will
always be set to the most current track, and your position in that
track will be remembered when you stop listening. So you don't have
to keep track of hundreds of tracks (or convert formats if that's how
your audio book comes). You treat the smart playlist just like a
single Audible file and you can stop play, listen to a podcast or some
music, and then resume play later on from the playlist menu. What's
even cooler is that if you choose to sync this playlist, when you
connect your iPod nano all the tracks that you've listened to will
automatically be cleared off the iPod, since they no longer match the
condition of the playlist. You can also use iTunes' context menu to
"Reset Play Count" in the songs table. That way, if you want to
listen to the book again, just select all tracks in the album
(Command-A), set their play count to 0 (Command-Shift-M or Control-
Click and choose the "Reset Play Count" option), and use the same
smart playlist to play the book. If you want to play another multi-
track book that way, just edit the smart playlist to change the Album
(title). Pretty sweet!
Two more comments: you can get the equalizer presets if you scroll
down (move your finger clockwise around the wheel) from the "Off"
option. Press the center of the wheel to make your preset selection.
You're pretty familiar with your collection, but if you need to
identify a new track that's just been shuffled, press the center of
the wheel, and the track name will be annnounced.
Keep 'em coming with the podcasts.
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:24 AM, Shane Jackson wrote:
Google is your best friend. I can't remember the specific steps,
but the idea is to get back to the language menu and get it to
English. When you get to English, which you won't know unless you
know where it is located in the language menu, you hit the center to
select it, and the iPod starts talking again. LOL! Hopefully, most
of you won't do that. I'm very adventurous, and I get myself into
trouble every time I get something new. Anyway, just do a Google on
restoring the language on an iPod Nano, and you'll find it. Follow
the instructions to the letter, and it'll work just fine.
Alternatively, you could just reset the iPod, using the restore
options in Itunes, and that should set it back to your default
language. I hope that helps.
On Sep 19, 2008, at 12:34 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
oo, how do you restore the language?
----- Original Message -----
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David, you are right unless you do what I did. I pressed what I
shouldn't press, and my language was altered. I had to do a Google
search to find out how to get it back to English, then I had to
recheck the box. LOL!!! Good stuff!
On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:21 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
according to the manual, if you are using vo, that checkbox to
enable spoken
menues is checked by default.
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When you connect your Nano to the computer and Itunes launchees and
your Nano is visible in the device section, you tab to settings
scroll
area and interact, There you have to cheque under the summary tab
"enable spoken menus" cheque box and then press sync button at the
end. This will then enable those menus so when you start using yor
nano for the first time after syncing you wil hear your menus
spoken.
But first of all, when take your out of the box, and switch it on,
make sure you get assistance choosing your language. That's my
experience. It's brilliant! Simon 19 Sep 2008, at 05:41, Babcock,
Michael Alex wrote:
another question i have is how do i get it to start talking? is it
wrongo f me to persume that once i sink it, i can un plug it and it
will talk to me?
hm
On Sep 18, 2008, at 8:38 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi
Well that makes a great promotional, but could someone write about
how well it actually works? What we can expect when we purchase
it, bugs, purks, of course it talks but what else is there to know
about it.
I have been wanting to try one of these things out for a while now
but can't seem to figure out how as you have to set it up through
your itunes library and you won't find any such unit at an apple
store.
One interesting thing I did notice about the nano is that if it is
playing music and you start to move through the menus, the music
volume gets cut in half, presumably so that speech may be heard.
Pretty cool, but again, no experience actually using the speech.
Regards
Justin Harford
On Sep 18, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Thanks go to Shane Jackson for his review of the iPod Nano 4G and
its speaking interface. You can read the review at this link:
http://www.lioncourt.com/shake-shuffle-and-roll/
Josh de Lioncourt
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Shane Jackson
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Shane Jackson
Vestavia Hills, Alabama, USA.
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