The original iPod Nano has a software update available. Mainly for various language support in the Nike gizmo add-on but there are bug fixes.
The big bug for me, which made me go back to v1.1 was when playing Audiobooks the iPod would freeze for ten seconds or so. The audio would play but the menu system was frozen and would except any clicks to pause , stop, volume etc.
I have been told v1.3 fixes this problem.
Now the hassle… I am guessing you can only get via itunes7 - and I am not installing that lump of super buggy software on my PC, I’ll wait until it is sorted out as well.
i want v1.3 as well
I have experienced the 10 second freeze with 1.2 but have been living with it for a very important reason. 1.2 was the first iPod update that fixed the problem of an iPod losing your position in an audiobook. I gladly put up with the short menu freeze to avoid having to reposition the audiobook after every sync.
Sadly 1.3 fixes the freeze problem but restores the “losing position” problem. Why can’t Apple fix this?
I have only ever noticed the ‘losing position’ once with v1.1
Every other time has been fine. My audiobooks are divided up into Cd length tracks - are yours longer/shorter?
do they fix the problem v1.3?
i update today.
I have been using update 1.3 for a little while.
I don’t seem to have problems at all with audio books.
Does anyone have a link to show what bug fixes are included with this update?
Bloke, there is 1.3.1 out now but I have no idea what the fixes are.
1.3 worked better with Audiobooks and Nike+ for me.
For audio books if you update to the newer (1.3?) firmware and iTunes there are options when you do a ‘Get Info’ to allow you to remember your position on a file and to not shuffle that file in with your music. I had audiobooks which were renamed AAC files (to the filename M4B) and they were treated as audio books. Under the new firmware I don’t do that anymore and just use Get Info. If you have audiobooks you’ve purchased, then that could be an issue. But if you just use regular MP3 or AAC you can make the files so that your iPod remembers the position.
thanks Greg. That is correct but unfortunately itunes won’t put them in the audio book section on the ipod, for that they must be .m4b or .aa files.
thanks greg
It seems as though the audiobooks only lose their bookmarks when the length is greater than approx. 1 hour. It doesn’t affect Audible (.aa) books. I don’t remember always having this problem, but that’s probably because I had the aforementioned 1.2 firmware. Is there a way for me to downgrade back to that version?
Thanks.
Thanks for the comment Jonny.
I used to be able to go back to the original firmware version when I was using itunes v6 because the updater was a seperate program but since v7 of iTunes it doesn’t seem like you can. I tried just the other day and all it does is install the latest firmware.
Maybe if you could find the original updater software (on the CD maybe) you can use that - make sure itunes isn’t running.
I found the 1.2 firmware in a Mac iPod updater, 2006-06-28, that did the job. My audiobooks no longer lose their bookmarks! Only the mac version worked though, the windows version still had the losing bookmark bug.
It’s available from the apple site.
Good news Jonny, thanks for letting me know.
click the link below to download ipod updater 1.3.
Link Here..
I download the updater 1.3 for update my Ipod nano 1st Generation and I installed it, but when I execute it show a message that say Error en el servicio del Ipod (Wrong Ipod Service).
Tell me what to do…
DD, I don’t know if you can use the 1.3 updater if you are using v7 of iTunes. After version 6 of iTunes you do all updating via iTunes itself, not with seperate updates. try that and see if it works.
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