We had a display model iPod Nano, 8 gig, at my work that was on closeout for $100, but I bought it for $60, due to it being a display model with no accessories, manual, etc. It's one of the older ones that's a little thicker than a credit card. So I downloaded iTunes, put music on it (3.5 days' worth), and then decided to peruse available podcasts (I'd never seen/heard one before, as I thought it required an iPod...I was not aware you could just watch/listen on your PC), and came to the realization that the Nano (at least the one I bought) is not able to display video. Kinda meh, but I can live without it.
Never having even handled an iPod before, it took me about five minutes to figure out how to scroll up and down the menu items, as the ffwd/rewind portions of the control did nothing to go from music to pics to podcasts, etc. I guess I just fiddled around with it to discover that it's kinda like a ribbon controller on a keyboard. So I hooked it up to my PS3, and unfortunately discovered that the music was placed into13 different folders,with no rhyme or reason to where they were being placed...entire albums I uploaded into iTunes in specific folders are now scattered throughout different folders (the songs from one album are not within a single subfolder....each of the 13 folders might have one or two songs from any particular album). So apparently if I want to listen to my iPod via my PS3, I will not be able to listen to entire albums (I saw no option for selecting individual artists or albums), and thus relegating my Nano to a glorified Shuffle. And to make matters worse, it seems I am only able to shuffle individual folders instead of the entire contents of the iPod. And all the podcasts I DLed are now contained in these same folders, so I had to search through 4 folders last night in order to listen one of the Lost podcasts I DLed.
So, I have a few questions....has anyone played their iPod through the PS3, and found a way to listen to entire albums, or choose only podcasts? Or to shuffle the entire contents of the iPod instead of individual folders? Obviously on the iPod itself you can do these things, but apparently the PS3 will not allow this.
Also, why in iTunes and on the iPod is there no stop button? Is there a way to stop playing either a song or podcast without completely exiting out of the menu you are currently in? And how do you delete music or podcasts from the iPod? I'm GUESSING that you would deselect songs or podcasts within iTunes that you no longer want, select the new ones you do want, and then re-synch it. I played around with this for a bit, and it SEEMS to be the way to do it, but I'm not sure.
I might come up with more questions later, but for now, any help would be appreciated.
Never having even handled an iPod before, it took me about five minutes to figure out how to scroll up and down the menu items, as the ffwd/rewind portions of the control did nothing to go from music to pics to podcasts, etc. I guess I just fiddled around with it to discover that it's kinda like a ribbon controller on a keyboard. So I hooked it up to my PS3, and unfortunately discovered that the music was placed into13 different folders,with no rhyme or reason to where they were being placed...entire albums I uploaded into iTunes in specific folders are now scattered throughout different folders (the songs from one album are not within a single subfolder....each of the 13 folders might have one or two songs from any particular album). So apparently if I want to listen to my iPod via my PS3, I will not be able to listen to entire albums (I saw no option for selecting individual artists or albums), and thus relegating my Nano to a glorified Shuffle. And to make matters worse, it seems I am only able to shuffle individual folders instead of the entire contents of the iPod. And all the podcasts I DLed are now contained in these same folders, so I had to search through 4 folders last night in order to listen one of the Lost podcasts I DLed.
So, I have a few questions....has anyone played their iPod through the PS3, and found a way to listen to entire albums, or choose only podcasts? Or to shuffle the entire contents of the iPod instead of individual folders? Obviously on the iPod itself you can do these things, but apparently the PS3 will not allow this.
Also, why in iTunes and on the iPod is there no stop button? Is there a way to stop playing either a song or podcast without completely exiting out of the menu you are currently in? And how do you delete music or podcasts from the iPod? I'm GUESSING that you would deselect songs or podcasts within iTunes that you no longer want, select the new ones you do want, and then re-synch it. I played around with this for a bit, and it SEEMS to be the way to do it, but I'm not sure.
I might come up with more questions later, but for now, any help would be appreciated.
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