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[TimB]

Steve, any thoughts on integrating features in for the new iPod Photo?

I know there aren't any out yet but I'm hoping that I'll be able to get my album art onto it.

Thanks!

-=Tim=-

[tlongacre]

Me too!

In fact, this may be the thing that forces me to switch to iTunes.

Also, there was a question awhile back about whether you guys would ever be able to have MC communicate with the AirExpress thingy -- is that a possibility? Something you're looking at? Or not 'cause you don't have the necessary access?

[SteveG]

All of these features will be looked at in the future.

Steve

[TimB]

All of these features will be looked at in the future.

Steve

So that's a definite YES, we'll have it by December 1?  

-=Tim=-

[SteveG]

 

[tlongacre]

Hey Steve,

This seems like it would quite an easy thing to implement (said by a non-programmer, so you should probably take it with a grain of salt  )

But what iTunes does is give you these options:

   1. sync all photos in My Pictures
   2. sync only specified folders
   3. sync with Adobe Photo album -- here it looks like you get no choice, it's all photos in the album

Then, it gives you a choice of whether you want to *also* copy the full resolution files.

When you do the sync, iTunes "optimizes" the photos you've chosen for the iPod (makes 'em *much* smaller and fits 'em to the screen) and then copies them over to the Photos folder on the iPod.

I did not choose to copy the full resolution files, but I can see many would want to do that if they are actually using the iPod as a hard drive to transfer stuff to another computer.

At any rate, compared to the complexities of music management, this seemed awfully simple to me (and I have LOTS of ideas how I would like to make it better  ).

Just trying to keep the conversation alive  

[TimB]

I'll quickly add that for me its just the cover art that floats my boat.  I understand that others might differ but the heck with them!  

-=Tim=-

[BOBtheBuilder]

Thats all I want the iPod photo for is the album art thing.  Is it going to be easy to do you think?  I have every album in a different folder in My Music, and in each folder i have the album art along with the songs from that album.  Will I have to change a bunch of things or am I good to go?

[tlongacre]

I think having cover art may be the most difficult thing. Because (apparently, got this info from the Discussions page at apple.com) iTunes stores it's cover art in the music file and that is how the iPod Photo retrieves and displays it. Personally, with a library of over 120GB already, I'm not inclined to make every song file bigger by adding the cover art photo to it. . . But who knows? Maybe those clever people at JRiver can figure out a much more efficient way of displaying cover art on the iPod? I would LOVE that.

[SteveG]

Bob and tlong,

MC and iPod photo need to be explored further before we can answer (meaning we have to get one here and see how it ticks). If iPod handles reading the art from the file, this opens other options on how to handle this in a memory efficient way.

Steve

[TheWiz]

Just wondered whether there had been any progress with getting full functionality for iPod Photo ?   Seems that Media Center would be the perfect complement for this device .... and I so don't want to have to switch over to iTunes.

Any chance I wonder if all iPod Photo users would chip in to help fund the software upgrade - or is that a non-starter ?

Thanks for any news J River .....

[prod]

dunno how MC works but i'd imagine it'd be a piece of p*ss to get the ipod photo support into it. itunes isn't doing anything vastly complicated. for now i'm continuing to use MC to organise/sync my music and itunes merely for the pix.

[JimH]

We won't know how likely it is that we can do it until we've spent some time with it.  We'll try to take a look at it sometime soon.