HI Esther thanks for the very informative description of scrub mode.
Ok now on a related issue concerning scrub mode, if you have your podcast
settings set to unplayed episodes I remember this means you have to play
alll the way to the end of the podcast file so next time you sync it will be
deleted from the mac and iPod.
Is this the only way you can determine a podcast episode to be deleted if
you don't want to listen all the way to the end of the episode?
Finally is there a scrub mode on iTunes on the mac or can you only hold down
option command and use the right and left arrows to advance through a song
or podcast episode?
Thanks again.
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From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: iPod nano moving through a track quickly
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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