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Q: Does it scratch like Nano?
Originally Posted by LFC_SL Q: Does it scratch like Nano? |
Originally Posted by kloan My nano skips. Quite often. Annoying to say the least.. it's more like a glitchy kind of noise.. stuttering.. |
Originally Posted by Wodgy Can you find a copyright-free music file that skips and post it, so that other people can check whether theirs skips as well, to determine whether this is a widespread problem or it's just your Nano that's defective? |
Originally Posted by Wodgy Can you find a copyright-free music file that skips and post it, so that other people can check whether theirs skips as well, to determine whether this is a widespread problem or it's just your Nano that's defective? |
Originally Posted by kloan Well it happens quite randomly, but I can to find a copyright-free track that's VBR to test out.. dunno where I'd find something like that though. |
Originally Posted by Wodgy There are roughly three people on various forums who've reported skipping with VBR MP3s. I tend to think those posters are just trolls, because the problem has never been reproduced in a public demonstration. No one on Head-Fi has ever claimed to have this problem. (Except one guy, who it turned out was not getting skipping; he was getting clipping by trying to drive unpowered speakers with the headphone jack of his iPod.) |
Originally Posted by Skylab That's EASY: http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php LOTS of copyright-free, awesome music, in lossless, Ogg, and VBR MP3. I have a Nano, have used it less than 10 hours, but no skipping so far. |
Originally Posted by deathBOB To bad they don't make a hybrid Ipod with a hard drive and a gig or two of flash memory. Then you could load you movie into the flash and not run down the battery so quickly by running the hard drive. |
Originally Posted by mightymouse That's actually a pretty good idea- but imagine the practicality of it.. |