by Joel Aufrecht
04:58 PM, 25 Oct 2005
By and large, I am happy with my iPod Shuffle. But I do want to mention the following annoying problems:
- After the Shuffle is turned on, it takes about four seconds before it responds to any buttons.
- It's hard to slide the off/on/shuffle button to on without slipping past to shuffle.
- The earphones that came with mine have developed buzzing noises. First it was only the left, which was not too bad because I usually listen on my bicycle, with only the right earbud in. But now it's both.
- If you turn it off, it loses your place within a track.
- When you add new files, it loses your place.
- If you leave it on for a long time, it sometimes becomes unresponsive and must be turned off and back on. This operation usually makes it lose your place.
- The battery condition light sometimes doesn't respond. When it does, the green looks yellow to me.
- It's not suitable for listening to long tracks. The fast-forward is slow, and if your finger slips you can easily lose your place and have to start over.
- Rewind stops at the beginning of a track, so you cannot rewind to something late in the previous track.
