Not Everyone Loving the New iPod Interface
Some people are really not loving one part of the new iPod Classic and Nano interface: the album art that appears underneath the menus.
The problem is two-fold: The art scrolls ever-so-slightly behind the menu, which some people find distracting; some people are embarrassed that the iPod, which randomly selects album art from your music, will display something you are embarrassed of owning in public.
Kirk McElhearn had the first issue:
Let me explain how this works, for those who do not have new iPods. When you are on the main menu (the top-level menu), or the Music menu (which leads to Playlists, Artists, Albums, etc.), you see album art on the right half of the iPod screen. This is a random cover from your music, and it changes about ever 8 seconds. It also moves around; you know, like those annoying Flash ads on web pages that distract you so you can't read articles?The second complaint came mainly from my friend John, who lives in perpetual fear that his mother will discover he listens to music less than wholesome, despite that there is a literal ocean between them. Floating cover art, as McElhearn rightly points out, should be something you can turn off in the settings. As for the shame in music selections, I would remind John that his mother loves him very much, even if she is terrified of what a creepy, leering monster his music indicates he has become.
It's Official: Apple's Stupidest Interface Innovation Ever [McElhearn.com via Daring Fireball]
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They needed to do SOMETHING to the OS since it can display images so nice and pretty, I just think it would be nice if people had some options in that regard.
Yep, proof that the 2nd gen was the best iPod.
(Okay, I'm just kidding, but it was really simple in a nice, I-do-one-thing-very-well way.)
I don't know about anybody else, but it only found album artwork for a couple of bands (out of >2000) for mine. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
You can turn it off though. The Ipod just has to be connected to the computer. I turned mine off immediately due to the embarrassed-to-own-this-album factor.
I'm told you can turn off album art entirely, but not just the floaty random covers part, which is what most people are complaining about.
It only works on the Mac, but I've found Corripo to work well when tracking down album art iTunes can't grok: http://nclasssoftware.com/corripio
I'm still using a Rio Karma. Album artwork and video, yet no parametric EQ?! Blasphemy!
Yes, I know EQ settings are available on a per-song basis from within iTunes, but that's horribly tedious and obviously doesn't scale well between earbuds and speakers.