Hi,
Yes, the way Scott H. describes (listening for the track title
announcement after pressing the center of the wheel) is the best way
to determine when you can enter scrub mode for audio podcasts,
audiobooks, and music tracks. In general, the number of presses to
access different modes can depend on options you have switched on --
for example, for music tracks if you have "Genius Playlists" switched
on you'll get an additional mode added in. For video podcasts you
don't hear the track title announced after pressing the center button
twice to enter scrubbing mode.
The other thing is: the rate at which you scrub determines how fast
you move through the file. I tried an ABC Radio National podcast that
is 35 minutes long, and the fastest I could advance was 7 or 8 circles
around the wheel to move from the beginning to the end of the show.
If I slowed down, it could take 24 circles to scrub through the same
amount. One reason there isn't an easy calibration of this is that as
you continue to scrub, you accelerate in the rate at which you move
through the file, so it doesn't scale up in terms of the amount of
time it takes to scrub through a longer audiobook file. The actual
scrub rate you'll get is very individual, and depends on your
particular finger action as well as how long the file is. I just find
the Nano 4G scrubbing for audiobook tracks really slow compared to the
first and second generation Nanos. My guess is that now Apple is
tuning this to television shows and short music videos, with typical
times under 1 hour, where on earlier iPods the long tracks were audio
book tracks at least 5 hours long. Since those earlier iPods were
only set up for podcasts, audio books, and photo libraries, the scrub
rate was probably set up to complement audio book lengths and not
television show episodes. Pure speculation on my part, though. If
you're using audiobooks from Audible or iTunes, you can probably
navigate by chapter markers. Some software programs (Audiobook
Builder and earlier Join Together and Chapterize AppleScripts) let you
insert chapter markers.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 15, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Yep, press the center button twice so that you hear the title of the
track being played. Carefully move your finger clockwise or
counterclockwise to move more rapidly through the track. Now it'll
take you a little time to get used to how much or little you need to
move your finger to achieve the amount of time you wish to move.
They call this scrubbing mode by the way.
hth
On Nov 15, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Scott Rutkowski wrote:
HI all.
Can someone please tell me with the iPod nano 4g, is there a fast
way of moving through a track besides holding down the right part
of the click wheel?
This holding down of the wheel moves you too slow through the track.
I thought I remember Esther saying you could press the centre of
the wheel then move your finger around the wheel but this doesn't
seem to work for some reason.
I tried this while listening to a podcast on the nano and it didn't
work for me.
Maybe i'm doing something wrong.
If anyone can tell us the correct way of moving quickly through a
track on the nano, that would be awesome.
Thanks all.
Scott Howell
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