So the iPod Classic, I’ve had it a few weeks now and I can tell you; it’s far from “Classic”. Unless classic means a massive step backwards. Basically it’s riddled with bugs, so far I have found:
- Menu randomly resets to the system defaults, hmmm annoying as the defaults suck.
- Doesn’t sync playcounts back to iTunes, meaning I can’t submit what I’ve listened to, to last.fm. If it does sync, it gets it horribly wrong and thinks I’ve listened to one song 47 times or some similar crazyness.
- Can’t hide compilation artists from the main Artists list or the cover flow, a clear 100% regression from the previous generation of iPods, which all had this feature. God only knows why Apple removed this incredibly useful feature.
- Horrible screen saver that kicks in after a minute, which means you can’t take your iPod of your pocket to see what you listening too, without pressing a button (not good when driving)
- Cover flow sorts by artist not album, yeah that makes sense… at least give me the option.
- The menus are sluggish, and performance isn’t great moving around the user interface.
So all in all it’s a bit of stinker, I’m not the only one that’s unhappy, the Apple and iLounge forums are awash with complaints and bug reports (I’ve not even suffered the random crashes that many have had).
There is nothing here that couldn’t be fixed in a firmware update, Apple have released one already (1.0.0 -> 1.0.1) which was rushed out to fix the random crashes, I’m really hoping for another update and soon.
If I had know all of this before I impulsively bought the thing, it would have been a different matter. At least it looks nice… 
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Being unable to hide compilation artists from your main artist list is so annoying. I waited 3 generations for apple to introduce this simple feature. And now for no apparent reason they’ve dropped it??!! So frustrating. They should create an offical bug schedule so we can at least know they’ve acknowledged the issue and are working to set it right??!!
The new iPod Classic also no longer displays embedded chapter images in an enhanced podcast. I went from a 3G to the classic and I was looking forward to that for my Doctor Who: Podshock podcast.
I bought the iPod classic today. It’s my first foray into the iPod world and I’m disappointed. I thought I was going to love the cover-flow feature but it is USELESS because of the HIDEOUS way it shows ALL the artists even if you haven’t got specific albums by them, only within a compilation. As a huge amount of my music is within compilations this makes it unusable. I was looking for a way around this on the web when I came across this blog - I thought it must have been ME doing something wrong but obviously not!!!! I am not enjoying my iPod Classic experience very much so far.
I got the ipod classic, it was great for the first 2 weeks and the it froze, i had 2 leave it on 2 run out its battery, then it kept saying 2 restore, but it wont restore properly, and i cant sync anything.
I have Ipod touch 32gb it so cool
http://astore.amazon.com/ipod.touch.32gb-20
I like ipod touch more.