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loopychewI don't really see a problem with the new iPod shuffle's lack of display, and the two basic reasons why:
1. There are plenty of flash MP3 players out there without any displays (chief offender: Creative's Nomad MuVo, which is what my dad uses in his off-hours), and people seem to get along fine with those. Granted, the ones I'm thinking about are hardly ever more than 128MB in size, whereas the Shuffle's four times that size, but still, the number of songs you'd be putting on there isn't so much that it'd matter.
2. Shufflers have a great advantage over most flash MP3 players: they can arrange their own damn playlist. Too often, flash MP3 players will only play MP3s in either 1. alphabetical order (by filename), or 2. in whatever order they were copied onto the drive--which can be annoying as a Windows user, because Windows seems to determine filecopy order with lawn darts. (Granted, there may or may not be players out there which accept M3U lists...anybody know of any?) Since the Shuffle allows for iTunes playlists, there's no problem there.
Given that I'm never going to own one (or if I do, it'll be a ways from now), I've put way too much thought into this whole thing. On the other hand, I'm more likely to own one of these than a mini.
Hmm.
1. There are plenty of flash MP3 players out there without any displays (chief offender: Creative's Nomad MuVo, which is what my dad uses in his off-hours), and people seem to get along fine with those. Granted, the ones I'm thinking about are hardly ever more than 128MB in size, whereas the Shuffle's four times that size, but still, the number of songs you'd be putting on there isn't so much that it'd matter.
2. Shufflers have a great advantage over most flash MP3 players: they can arrange their own damn playlist. Too often, flash MP3 players will only play MP3s in either 1. alphabetical order (by filename), or 2. in whatever order they were copied onto the drive--which can be annoying as a Windows user, because Windows seems to determine filecopy order with lawn darts. (Granted, there may or may not be players out there which accept M3U lists...anybody know of any?) Since the Shuffle allows for iTunes playlists, there's no problem there.
Given that I'm never going to own one (or if I do, it'll be a ways from now), I've put way too much thought into this whole thing. On the other hand, I'm more likely to own one of these than a mini.
Hmm.
