What if you want to quality music, and you constrained resources? Buy portable player without a display! It does not feel no GUI, no equalizers, it is not deplorable wowsuper3dsound functions and no display. Or without all this can not do? Looking flash iPod shuffle, we will try to answer this question.
History
Player iPod shuffle born much earlier than iriver S07. However, the very idea of the development and launch of a massive sales of digital flash-player, in the construction of which is not provided for the display, is not new. Apple echoes here of eastern dynamic market. It is a tribute to another in popularizing asketic and simple way of your product. Just a year ago, news headlines electronic publications shows another unexpected and "insolent" product from the company Steve Jobs (founder and current president of Apple). If it were a hitherto unheard of and unprecedented player, the emergence of the fault which was rampant fantasy genius and developers involved in the State of California companies. All the somewhat different than it appears a cursory familiarity with the topic of conversation. Eastern special (mostly Korean) long before Apple make release from his blacksmith playrs "blind". They not only display absent, but a carrier of information and as such all-out only thing necessary: the connector for memory cards, a few buttons, the traditional plastic shell "with" nachinkoy of Sigmatel, slabenkim battery and a couple of primitive controllers. These masterpieces, even by our standards face-dime $15-20. Tempting, but also a dangerous to the extreme. According to consumer feedback, such players served short. Obviously, it is linked with the desire of producers to save on the assembly. Controls quickly went down, cheap plastics in a couple of weeks already taken part in the form of obscene and neakkuratnoy exploitation, and their work does not vary enviable stability. It is appropriate in this case there remember as a playback music in a digital format? In short, it was necessary to refine the idea a little bit and add a bit of advertising, which was done under the banners of Apple. In light appeared iPod shuffle.
Then followed quite logical and predictable move by the iriver-training alternative player without a display. Why not guessed yet to issue earlier question. It is a question of iriver - S07 and its seychas-to in official sales in the territory of our country not only by the company and the IRR, we have the opportunity to write a review, using a sample test player, which you can see in the very near future.
Design
We now have a great opportunity to give deployed description and describe some details.
Packaging Material-anodised aluminum. In recent years, this alloy has proven itself with the best hand and was widely read as a universal obramlenie for high-tech devices. Among its consumer characteristics indicate a high resistance to pollution and physical damage, as we rushed to verify.
During testing has been forced to shuffle the test, which handled as perfect. Several falls from a height of a half meters at the concrete floor, he endured almost painless-on the surface of Yele remained visible damage. The most visible traces of the shell may appear in a tight physical contact with a solid material (glass, metal) or ostrougolnymi objects. Similar properties have plastic, but unlike the aluminum shell, he has to lose his characteristic appearance during a long operation. However, recent approval for, depending on the type of plastic, its properties can change.
Part of the construction corps is a special klipsa-prischepka located on the back of the player. Place "planting" any item can be a wardrobe: lapel jacket, strap bags, binding jackets, belt-list can be endless. Since the first days of use prihodish unwittingly concluded that the case could not be player. Fixed quickly, conveniently and without redundant headache. During the test (2 months) Clothes-pin has not changed the nature of his conduct: stiffness remained the same, and the design has remained in its original form, and there is no hint of play.
Office player being accomplished chetyrehpozitsionnogo wheel, and two additional knopok-slayderov. The first is responsible for the inclusion / disconnection of nutrition, and the second translates playback mode of the "red line" in the "mixed" and back. First-mode playback songs in the order in which they were written in memory of the player. The second mode has received its name from the English word shuffle (literally, "reshuffle", "Move") and is characterized by arbitrary playback compositions. Admittedly, such a miserly set of controls to more than cover enough.
LED is the only way to know at least some information on the status of the battery and the player in particular. Green light-well, the orange-battery is running out / charged, red-battery charge is coming to an end. Less common signals characterized by alternating green and orange. For example, if there is an error in the shuffle green turning orange every two seconds. Frankly, no player would be damaged separate battery indicator, and itself maloinformativnaya signal system.
During the Test player has proven itself as a reliable and convenient portable audio device. Its features will be evaluated, people leading active lives associated with high mobility. iPod shuffle leaves for maximum freedom movements and, in extreme situations will show itself with the best hand.
iPod shuffle + iTunes = Love
Attention shuffle without iTunes as a Romeo-Juliet-free could not exist. Will either live with it either renounce the acquisition of the player. Absurd, but complete with shuffle than headphones, a tiny dock, and the instructions did not. Program player can own iTunes download from the Apple site, or find any other source of distribution. To explain this phenomenon from the perspective of a reasonable rather difficult. Maybe pack wanted to retain as tiny as the player himself? Or simply save on the pig? Or, every member of the western society has access to the Global Wide Web? Let the case, but our situation is somewhat different situation.
Through iTunes happening recording music, as well as synchronization of musical compositions written on a computer with a shuffle. This resulted from the very inextricable link between the two Apple products. The interface is simple interface for maximum understanding. Almost all transactions committed by the method Drag'n'Drop, that is normal movement of objects in the folder and iTunes, respectively, in the shuffle. The best way to create a list of pre-play for the program itself and it has to synchronize with the player. This is the most convenient and quickest way to write music for the beloved iPod sufficiently establish several folders in pley-list, and after a couple of minutes the entire list to shuffle songs will be updated.
Despite all claims against the tandem iPod + iTunes adherents of the "digital freedom", uzrevshih benefit rid of every attachment to the Hardware Software (hardware to the program), it should be noted groundlessness of such attacks. Among the criticisms may be the most objective and meaningful: "I write music with a convenient opportunity to replicate player without using additional software." Indeed, one such way is more acceptable if within a short time had to work with several computers (for example, in the office, at home and in a guest). In this case, better to get a portable audio without reference to a certain software. But buying some "mobile freedom", it is expected fall of comfort with the player. For instance, surf on the music archives, choosing individual songs from the multi-level structure with the genre, album and artist, is a very thankless and rather tedious. iTunes through this process eliminates synchronization current (current) playlists with the shuffle.
Remember, buying shuffle, ready to become an active user of iTunes software. Let this vision of you are not intimidated. Scary it is to be misleading. Yet, surprisingly cool, iTunes now one of the most convenient tool for reproduction and structuring an extensive music library. It can connect additional modules (Plug), codecs, as well as for functional limitations does not. In addition to music, iTunes reproduces video, writes disks (and rewrite music files on the computer with the original Audio CD), has direct access to a database of information about songs, as well as providing access to one of the largest digital stores for the implementation of musical works.
Apple to taste
Remember Apple players, expect something unusual, if not the best that could be expected only from portable audio. Vyderzhivaya traditional style, the California company produced another version of the desired player. How? As simple style here united with the "technical" nachinkoy not poskupivshis on USB controller, optimizing sound conclusions and bringing power consumption to a minimum. Consider all three components in more detail. 
Speeds data pozaviduyut not only flash-players. Average speed reading from memory is of the order of 6,3 Mbytes / s, a record - 3,8 MB / c. As the table shows, the result of one of the highest.
Approximately 12-13 hours, the player can develop without charges and breaks at the middle level, complete with volume control and headphones. Nothing-eminent figure for the traditional fleshek. With the dramatic use of the battery had to reload every 4 days. The very same process takes about replenishing charge four times, and in the first two happens filling 80% of the resources battery.
Finally, on subjective matter-of sound. With good "colors" and with due account as the shuffle creates miracles. Frequency response pleased even materyh hits, but the complete head-to expectations rather mediocre product. For understandable reasons, and no player in the Equalizer-adjust songs can be only through iTunes or editor sounds like SoundForge him and such.
Conclusion
Apple iPod shuffle for audio-active and progressive people. Practicality player advantage coupled with style, convenience and, most importantly, with quality sound. Despite the obvious benefits to evaluate their dignity, few can. Someone deterred absence display of player someone wants something more than just music, but much of its audience among fans shuffle undoubtedly emerge. The most important thing is to remember that the player is not for everyone.
As for the comparison of the old model and the new iPod shuffle, there is a lot of controversy. On the one hand, the new shuffle has grown smaller, compact, convenient, on the other hand, lost a USB plug and acquired II.zipType. Because the last player is difficult to use as flesh-brelka and perepodklyuchat it to other computers, the real headache.
After a long series, and the polls still prihodish thought to the conclusion: the bulk of the functional bloat (games, video) in the players simply do not need. You understand it is already in the first week of use iPod shuffle player. Indeed, why all these toys when almost every resident in town these days have a mobile phone, and many have a pocket computer? Is it worth duplicating the functions of these devices in the player? Rather no than yes. And this idea in the shuffle built an absolute. The device is suitable only for the reproduction of music, and perhaps to some extent to store small amounts of information. And all alone. The last word, as always, is yours. One can only wish the best of luck in choosing.
