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New iPod Shuffle (talking 4GB) stereo adapters
LoneIgadzra
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My parents just acquired two of the new talking 4GB iPod shuffles, the idea being it would be just in time for a car trip they would be taking. We didn't realize that they could not be controlled without the little remote on the included earbuds.
I mean this new setup is great for the most common use scenarios (work, exercise), but we also need to connect these to a car's 1/8" aux-in jack.
Does anyone else have one of these? I cannot seem to have any luck at all finding a cord with a remote in it to adapt one of these to just plain stereo out. My google-foo is completely failing me and I just get all kinds of results for other kinds of ipods and articles about the controversy (and we really need to find something like this retail anyway, since the car trip is in two days). Worst comes to worst, if I can get the electrical diagram I'll solder together my own cord with a switch in it, but goddamn this is a little surprising.
I mean this new setup is great for the most common use scenarios (work, exercise), but we also need to connect these to a car's 1/8" aux-in jack.
Does anyone else have one of these? I cannot seem to have any luck at all finding a cord with a remote in it to adapt one of these to just plain stereo out. My google-foo is completely failing me and I just get all kinds of results for other kinds of ipods and articles about the controversy (and we really need to find something like this retail anyway, since the car trip is in two days). Worst comes to worst, if I can get the electrical diagram I'll solder together my own cord with a switch in it, but goddamn this is a little surprising.
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Your only hope is to scrap a pair of Apple earbuds and connect a male 3.5" audio jack on the other side of the controls.
I am curious as to whether I can plug in standard headphones and just go without play controls though.
Can you just return these for those?
If you can't return them, create some thermite, use it on them, and then buy the older shuffles to celebrate your successful exorcism.
It's shitty, and apple fucked up with this, but because of that it's been all over the internets that they fucked up. I wouldn't touch the new shuffle with a 12 foot pole.
They do start playing immediately when turned on. I am more wondering about the jack's compatibility with a stereo plug instead of whatever it takes normally.
Probably would short it or something I suppose.
I'm not sure I'd go so far as the "not touching with a pole". They are really nice compared to my old 1st gen shuffle, apart from the non-normal headphone jack thing.
OK if it starts playing as soon as you turn it on then you might be ok. Try it out with a pair of normal headphones - I know most of the recent iPods pause automatically when you remove the headphone plug, so if nothing else you might have rudimentary play/pause controls.
What it comes down it is that the 2nd gen shuffle is a better, more accessible product that is also $30 cheaper.
I dunno, I think we are SOL on the money back due to getting engraving, so just have to make the best of it. Probably will only need to buy one adapter if they ever start coming out (fuck you Apple, for $80 you could have just included one, then this whole debate would be moot).
What if you were to purchase one of those Y splitter jacks and stck your own quality headphones/ext. lead or whatever in one female end and apples shite headphones in the other female end and plug the male end of the Y lead into the ipod, surely this shoud work as the signal from the in-line control should still operate the ipod and you can still hear your music on your quality headphones/car stereo etc... only thing is of course you have apples shite headphones dangling around, but I suppose you could just tape them up out the way (not the controls mind lol)... Y lead is just a couple of quid!
So what do you think???? :?:
Normal stereo headphones can, in fact, be plugged in, and you will hear music over them if you turn the iPod on, but you will not be able to pause, skip, etc.
http://hackaday.com/2009/03/12/replacing-the-ipod-shuffles-headphones/
Isn't that pretty much what buyer beware means?
Huh? No that doesn't matter at all. The end of the apple earbuds that plugs into the iPod has four wires to carry the play control signals, not the earbud end (that's just stereo).
Honestly, Apple is trying to alienate loyal customers. Or perhaps people who aren't already loyal customers, considering that the loyal Apple fans are actually trying to defend this iPod
"HUR HUR I JUST BUY THIS NEW SHINY THING WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING"
and then get pissed when it's not what they expected
No shit
The shuffle is an excercise in minimalist form, it's not for everyone. It's for those who want a zen like product.
I thought that was in more direct competition with the Nano.
And much like you thought a giant cube in front of the Apple store was an exercise in minimalism, moving the controls to the headphones is not, and a portable music player has nothing to do with zen.
A screen, buttons, an intrusive company branding... These make things more complicated than they have to be.
All apple would have had to do is include a stereo adapter and voila - controversy over.
See. If we get enough anecdotes like these, we can call it research.
That isn't apple's style. If you look at their product line they love to have lock ins. The fact that they go out of thier way to make it difficult for software besides iTunes to connecto to iPods is proof enough.
Anyway, Scosche sells an adapter but it's pricey.
Some other companies might have cheaper solutions by now.
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