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Displaying long names...

I just bought an iPod 40G and a PowerBook 15"

I have a lot of music, and I listen to a lot of Classical (although plenty of everything else, too). I bought the 40G so that I could fit my entire music collection on it.

However, there is a major problem which makes the iPod very unusable. Namely, it cuts off names after a certain number of characters.

For example, I have around 30 CDs with Beethoven recordings. I can go to Browse and look by composer, but under Beethoven will be something like:

Symphony Nr...
Symphony Nr...
Symphony Nr...

(I'm estimating where the cut off happens).

So Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, and I have no clue which one is which until I click on one of them, and then start playing a song. This is *really* annoying. Same goes for any other artist or composer where the albums have very long names.

Is there a way to shrink the font? Or maybe have the iPod automatically scroll to show the full name? When you think that Mozart wrote 41 symphonies you realize why this is a huge problem for me...

Thanks,

Alex
[1139 byte] By [rampguy] at [2007-11-9 14:41:54]
# 1 Re: Displaying long names...
Unfortunately, you're stuck with the one font.

My only suggestion is to shorten the track titles so they'll fit on the display: "Symph. 1," "Symph. 2," or whatever.
trainman at 2007-11-15 14:12:52 >
# 2 Re: Displaying long names...
I have exactly the same problem.

I've been building my music library for about 3-4 years now, so I have elaborate naming schemes, etc., to make mp3's work great on my car cd-mp3 player, my macs and pcs and an old laptop running windows 3.1.

It seems like the solution is to build a playlist. While you wont be able to read the songs, at least you can write your playlist name to clue you in as to what's in the list, and you can order the songs however you want.
sfwasabi at 2007-11-15 14:14:03 >
# 3 Re: Displaying long names...
What I do is I rename the files so the variations occur near the front of the names.

For example:

Old name: Great Composers #5
New name: #5 Great Composers
mookiemeister at 2007-11-15 14:15:03 >
# 4 Re: Displaying long names...
But should we really have to rename thousands of mp3s in our collections just because Apple couldn't put in an option for a smaller font size?
davidtoc at 2007-11-15 14:15:58 >
# 5 Re: Displaying long names...
I agree. How do we complain to Apple? This must be extremely simple to fix. I have spent upwards of 20 hours of my life renaming and changing MP3 files to be more usable by my iPod. It shouldn't be like that.
rampguy at 2007-11-15 14:16:57 >
# 6 Re: Displaying long names...
I was just thinking, I wish Apple has scrolling in the browse screens. Just like my MP3 player had...

I briefly started changing some of the titles and such...but that seems to reset all the counters. (which I could probably accept...) but it is also a lot of work, and I haven't decided the system I'm going to use that remains acceptable to me.

The Dreamer.
TheDreamer at 2007-11-15 14:18:07 >
# 7 Re: Displaying long names...
go to the apple support webpage and find the link there that takes you to the ipod feedback page..
AptMunich at 2007-11-15 14:18:59 >
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