New Apple Lust Objects

Yeah, it doesn't screw anything up. If you forget to turn on the drive, it just starts noticing that it can't find tracks and puts up a box that says something like "iTunes was unable to locate some of the tracks in the library, including x. Would you like to try to locate them yourself?" and puts exclamation marks next to them. Just say cancel that, turn on the external drive and restart iTunes.

If the drive's turned off, it will also automatically default to adding new tracks (inc. autodownloaded podcasts) into your otherwise empty home directory's Music|ITunes folder. I always seem to end up with a few things in there by accident. You can still play them fine, but for neatness I tend to delete them and reimport them.

xposts!

Nah, for one, you only have to turn on the drive before starting up itunes. If you don't, however, it's no big deal--obviously your music won't play, but the new itunes doesn't fuck up like it used to in this situation. Used to be, you'd have to close itunes, turn on yr drive, open itunes again, and then make the default location for your library the external again. Itunes would then take about 15 minutes confirming(?) that everything was in the same place or something.

Now, if you forget to turn on the drive, you just close itunes, turn on the drive, open itunes again and it works like normal. For me, at least.

Thank you, good to know.

Looks like it doesn't matter anyway, the new ones only come with glossy screens.

You can't be too thin. Or too powerful.

Anyone run iTunes solely from an external drive? Does it screw everything up if I forget to turn on the drive before starting up my computer?

My iTunes Library is local, but the iTunes Music folder is an alias to a network drive. Works a treat -- even automounts the volume if I've forgotten.

christ, only 800 quid for the lowest spec. refurb prices are going to be very tempting.

New 6G iPods w/ touch, wifi and widescreen, widescreen iPod Nanos, iPhone update, iTunes 8, remastered Beatles on iTunes.

Remastered Beatles would be the sweeeeeeet. Where did you hear this rumour James?

I heard it at Best Buy, I went with my mom to try to get my brother an ipod for his birthday and the salesperson said, "Sorry, we're out, everyone's out. We heard Apple's making an announcement of some sort tomorrow, maybe they're coming out with a new model." Okay, that is not a confirmation of any sort, but it's apparently affecting stock of old ipods in stores.

Oh yeah, they're definitely bringing out new iPods, just hadn't heard the Beatles remastering rumours before.

The invitations for the event said "The Beat Goes On...", which was the last line in the Beatles' final press release.

so the question is when are they available? birthday party on saturday, damn it!

Should be from today, after 10am PST

Yellow Submarine iPod. Preloaded with Beatles catalogue.

http://techdigest.tv/beatles-ipod.jpg

That started as a joke "I'm going to start a rumour" from Merlin Mann on the MacBreak Weekly podcast. I think it would actually sell pretty well, with or without the pre-loading. I don't really understand how pre-loaded iPods work - how do they circumvent Apple's model of iTunes Library->iPod being one-way traffic? They did it for U2, right?

I don't think they were preloaded -- you had to download them from iTunes. Same with the Harry Potter ones.

$1 to make a ringtone? Jesus.

so stupid

phat nanos:

http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/500/IMG_7719.jpg

goddamn that's small.

Quick! Throw a hammer at that screen!!!

i don't really like it, but then i never like the style of the new ipods initially

phat nano? seriously? what?! why?

160gb iPod Classic!

ipod touch. get in.

digging the phat nano, actually. Completely useless having video on a screen that small, but it's an interesting look.

iPod touch, iPhone without the phone

so it does have Safari +wi-fi?

It has wifi, ye

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/applebeat/applebeatgoeson161.jpg
wonder what the missing buttons can be.

whoah

Safari, youtube, Google

man, this would be perfect if I were in school right now (campus-wide WiFi)

I'm wanting to get an iPhone when they eventually come out here, cos my phone's shit. But no point having both, gah.

wow, presumably it must be the same processor as the iphone, too, to be running safari? i wonder if it's equally hackable?

Everything but the phone? HMMMM.

Dunno if it's evertything but -- there's no Notes icon or Maps icon that I can see.

...will it take 3rd party apps? is this basically going to be an apple PDA??

only 16gb storage. Dilemma solved.

I guess it could function that way if you used Google Apps

and thus no EDGE, either, which is pretty essential for me (ipod touch won't be much use in a supermarket/out in a car etc for looking stuff up, presumably).

"only"

...am i the only one that has no interest in carrying around all of the musics?

what is EDGE again?

i am slightly jealous of 16GB storage though.

neutered iphone... not so interesting to me (160gb ipod for less, though, is)

Yeah, until I'm convinced that WiFi would work enough (that is, enough places) for it to really be an internet ipod, I'm not sure why I'd buy a 16gb ipod for $399 just 'cause it has a touchscreen.

Will the updated UI be available for the 5.5's?

no, I'm with you RW. Maybe I'd need 80-160GB if I was going on a months-long trip. But 1000 songs on 16GB will do me just fine for anything else.

ipod classic is cool in theory but i can't imagine ever needing 160 gigs. the scrunched nanos look fucking ugly and i don't understand why anyone would pay for a 16g phone-less iphone instead of getting a proper 8gb iphone and waiting for an unlock.

nothing here's really that compelling! i'm ipodless at the moment and the one that looks most appealing to me is probably an old-school 8gb nano.

xpost

and actually my 2GB nano is way more than enough for most things

rumors of iphone price drops?

is the phat nano a replacement for the old nano or a new line? if it's new, what's the advantage?