Walt Mossberg likes the iPod Mini

Walt Mossberg, the technology columnist at a little paper called the Wall Street Journal, reviews the new iPod Mini and over all he likes it. Of course, he would like it a lot more if it were $50 cheaper, a common complaint and one Apple will surely address as the price of those cute Mini hard drives goes down.

Of particular note is this little tidbit:

In fact, the latest version of iTunes even senses if you have a Mini, and if your song collection exceeds its capacity, the software can optionally auto-choose a selection of songs that will fit. It builds this selection, in part, based on which songs you’ve played most often or most recently, and which you’ve rated highest in iTunes.

This is the first I have heard of this feature, and I must say it is pretty cool.

Posted 6 years, 5 months ago

The iPo?

Tim · 6 years, 5 months ago

This feature is available not just if you have a mini iPod. I have more music in my library than will fit in my 30Gb iPod and it can offer to make a playlist of songs it thinks I might like (which doesn’t work that effectively to be honest - mainly because I have a lot of sound effects and audio clips in iTunes that I don’t want on my iPod).

James · www · 6 years, 5 months ago

Sorry about the typos folks, thought I fixed them before I posted.

Edit twice post once, as they say.

Scott · www · 6 years, 5 months ago