The only large-sized iPods I've tried more than briefly were
introduced before podcasts, music videos, movies, and TV shows became
part of the standard repertoire for the iPod. That means the only
long content you would use scrubbing mode for was audiobooks, so
that's what the scrub action was optimized for. I haven't used the
iPod Classic.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Interesting. For me the scrub action on the Nano is scaled way up
from my classic. Sometimes I go way too far because I'm expecting it
to go as fast as the classic did, and it zips much faster. Also
holding the forward and back buttons to scan goes a lot faster than
the classic.
On Nov 5, 2008, at 23:23, Esther wrote:
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for the feedback. I should have said that the scroll-wheel
action in scrubbing is the only physical feature that I'd want to
change -- I'd also like to switch off the automatic switch to Cover
Flow mode when you tilt the Nano. The only way I can deal with this
at present is to lock my Nano after choosing settings so I don't
suddenly hear "Cover Flow" every time it tilts. This is far from
ideal, but I'm hoping for a software fix since, as you say, this is
far from a unique reaction.
It may be that the scroll-wheel scrubbing action can also be
changed in a software release, because I feel as though the
movement of each of my "scrubs" were scaled down by at least a
factor of 3 or 4 -- maybe this is the relative size of the wheel.
As far as I can tell, on the 1G and 2G Nanos, one scrub around the
scroll wheel was like what you'd experience with one scrub around a
larger size iPod. On the 4G Nano, it's as though the action were
scaled way down, and scrubbing through a TV show or video (an hour
in length) feels close to the way I could scrub through 5 hours of
audiobook on a 1G or 2G Nano. It was great for the audiobooks,
because you could scroll really fast with the smaller wheel if you
wanted to, and was just more adjustable. Of course, those iPods
didn't support video, so maybe everything has been reset for TV
shows and movies.
