At Home with John and Debbie

I have spent way to much of my precious time picking holes in the iPod.

On Saturday (after watching Leamington scrape an FA Vase victory away against Croydon, then getting a meal in London waiting for our discount train tickets to become valid), we passed the Apple Store on Regent St. and popped in to buy a new iPod Nano for Debbie. They make it astonishingly easy to do this: a dedicated iPod counter has them stacked high, and attendants with handheld Point of Sale machines bag ‘em up and sell them as quickly as they can process cards. We were in and out in less than five minutes.

Before I could wrap it and put it under the Christmas tree, I charged it up and copied Debbie’s playlist onto it, so I got a quick play with it. The great news is that they’ve fixed the long standing compilations problem — now, if you enabled “compilations” in the settings, tracks on compilation albums do not appear in the main “artists” view, so that view is not polluted by artists for whom you don’t have a “real” album.

It’s not perfect, still, because sometimes you do want that “polluted” artists view — there should be a convenient way to switch back and forth — but that’s splitting hairs and I congratulate Apple for what they’ve done.

I look forward to finding out what else they’ve fixed.

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