{"id":331,"date":"2005-08-17T11:22:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T15:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2005-08-17T11:22:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T15:22:57","slug":"dear-ipoditunes-dev-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2005\/08\/17\/dear-ipoditunes-dev-team\/","title":{"rendered":"dear ipod\/itunes dev team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a Christmas firmware update for the iPod, I would love to see the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stand alone Party Shuffle on the iPod itself. All relevant info is stored on the iPod datastores, so it shouldn&#8217;t be <em>that<\/em> big a deal&#8230; right?<\/li>\n<li>fix the clicker settings so they&#8217;re saved on the 4th gen iPods. Resetting them everytime the iPod goes into deep sleep is annoying<\/li>\n<li>keep the headphone jack enabled when connected to iTunes. I actually like using the iTunes UI to control the iPod, but still listen through the iPod itself<\/li>\n<li>fix itunes so that it ejects the ipod on an XP system hibernate or shutdown. I&#8217;m tired of being told to run chkdsk and losing info because iTunes insists on keeping files open when they&#8217;re not actually being used, and munging them on a shutdown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for your consideration and remember, November is the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a Christmas firmware update for the iPod, I would love to see the following: stand alone Party Shuffle on the iPod itself. All relevant info is stored on the iPod datastores, so it shouldn&#8217;t be that big a deal&#8230; right? fix the clicker settings so they&#8217;re saved on the 4th gen iPods. Resetting them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hwsw","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}