How do I see What Im Playing?
Upgraded recently from my iPod Video to the new 160Gb iPod classic and after a frustrating night of upgrading to 1.0.1 Im finally set but having a few issues.
I tend to play my iPod in my car with it mounted on the dash so I can see which track is playing but it seems on the new interface this doesnt happen.
Firstly the screen is now very dark once the backlight goes off so its hard to see whats playing without pressing the middle button. Also the screen seems to default to a clock instead of the current song. again, I have to press the middle button to get rid of the clock, turn on the backlight etc. etc.
Is there a way of changing this so I have the current song playing on display at all times at a resonable brightness?
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XRayLexx] at [2007-11-11 20:48:48]
# 1 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
I personally have gone for the option of setting the backlight to be permanently on, at around 30% brightness.
Now people might scoff and say this eats battery, but it allows you to see what you're playing at all times, and besides, they just doubled the battery life, right?
It's very rare that I go more than a day without docking the iPod into a speaker dock, my car charger, or my PC so it's not an issue right now.
James
# 2 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
If just they added some text to the screen which said Artist and Track Name, would that be good enough? Seems that would be easy to do.
# 3 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
Im not sure what you mean.
All I want is the Now Playing screen to appear at all times when a song is playing so I can see the Track Name, Artist and album cover etc. at a resonable brightness.
The clock appearing is a bit pointless to me, esp since I cant read it because it is so dim.
# 4 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
Im not sure what you mean.
All I want is the Now Playing screen to appear at all times when a song is playing so I can see the Track Name, Artist and album cover etc. at a resonable brightness.
The clock appearing is a bit pointless to me, esp since I cant read it because it is so dim.
Try what I sugegsted then and set the backlight to always be on, but dim the brightness so it doesn't eat too much battery. Then you will always see the Now Playing screen...
# 5 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
Going to try that thanks. Seems an awkward workaround. Hopefully Apple will see the bad feedback on this Clock "Screen Saver" and allow us to turn it on or off in a future (sharpish) update.
# 6 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
U CAN'T turn off the "screen saver?" Am surprised.
# 7 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
What I would really like is that when iPod is receiving power (connected to either PC, Car Charger, Wall Charger, whatever...) - the screen saver should turn off and the backlight should be present at full intensity. When the iPod is running on battery, it should behave as it does right now).
Any idea if this is possible?
thanks,
Osho
oshogg at 2007-11-15 12:17:33 >
# 8 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
Hey guys, I put this discussion on the official Apple forums. There was debate on how to get round it,also the pro's and con's of listening to music with or without the title being displayed etc etc. Apple deleted the thread. How heavy handed. Is this standard practice at apple?
# 9 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
they deleted it?
I hate this clock sreensaver as well... gotta click constantly to know what song I am listening to!
# 10 Re: How do I see What Im Playing?
Yeah, i saw that thread also, not entirely sure why they deleted it. I think it may have been because of that jtplayer guy, who was just saying that the clock was great and why would anyone want to see what was playing, not particularly productive and liable to degenerate into flaming.. There've been other threads disappearing as well, like ones listing all the problems people have with classics. It's annoying really as you feel like that's the place to post if you want apple to see the problems you're having
Anyway, I agree with oshogg, i mainly use my ipod plugged in and in those circumstances it would be great to just leave the screen up - it kind of does this already if you set the backlight to always on, but then you've got to turn it off if you want to play songs unplugged.
jamesm at 2007-11-15 12:20:35 >
