Anyone with an iPod Touch?

[RogerS]

As I'm struggling to fathom out how to manage photos on it. It seems to me that the Apple software and the way that they have implemented it is the most counter-intuitive load of rubbish I've used in a long time. There..bet you never expected me to say that in my lifetime. i'll say it again...Apple, your management of photos on the iPod Touch is nothing short of banal.

How can a company that does so much for computers’ ease of use and user-friendliness and brought some of the most amazing improvements in computer history satisfied itself with such a primitive, complicated, blind and unsafe way to manage iPod photos?

If, like me, you have ever tried to add photos to your iPod or browse your iPod pictures with iTunes, you have probably come to the conclusion that the concept of synchronizing iPod photos with a folder of your computer is much too limited, risky and inconvenient.

Ideally, I should be able to see my iPod pics on my computer screen and add or delete pix individually in a fully WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) way.

Does anyone know of a way to do that on a Mac?

 

[TrimTheKing]

I've got one but not tried playing with pics to be honest. Will have a look when I get home.

What's your concern Roger?

I will be on PC btw, if that makes a difference...

 

[RogerS]

You can only sync to whole albums or folders. You cannot select an individual picture and manually add or delete it. It's not intuitive in anyway shape or form. If you add a new photo to the album then you have to resync everything. I also have a suspicion that you can easily lose or accidentally sync the wrong way or end up deleting stuff when you didn't mean to.

As you have a PC then you are fortunate as someone has developed a program that lets you manually manage photos.

 

[Oryxdesign]

Hi Rog, I haven't experienced the problems you seem to be having. I have just created an album (called ipod) in iphoto and move pictures to and from it. It seems to know when you delete a photo on either the mac or ipod to delete it on the next sync too.
Si

 

[Rob_H]

It seems to me that the Apple software and the way that they have implemented it is the most counter-intuitive load of rubbish I've used in a long time. There..bet you never expected me to say that in my lifetime. i'll say it again...Apple, your management of photos on the iPod Touch is nothing short of banal.

How can a company that does so much for computers’ ease of use and user-friendliness and brought some of the most amazing improvements in computer history satisfied itself with such a primitive, complicated, blind and unsafe way to manage iPod photos?

Utter heresy!! All hail the Mac!! \/ \/

 

[RogerS]

Hi Rog, I haven't experienced the problems you seem to be having. I have just created an album (called ipod) in iphoto and move pictures to and from it. It seems to know when you delete a photo on either the mac or ipod to delete it on the next sync too.
Si

There's the rub. Why should I need to go through iPhoto? What's wrong with sticking the SD card from the camera ito a card reader, navigating to the photo I want and then just dragging it into the iPod?

Even if you go down the route that you did, unless you have at least iPhoto 8 you can't even selectively import a photo and so you have to wait for all of them to be imported.

And basically I object to being forced to doing things Apples way.

 

[Chippyjoe]

Roger,

And basically I object to being forced to doing things Apples way.[/quote]

If that is the case why did you buy it ?

Mark.

 

[RogerS]

Roger,

And basically I object to being forced to doing things Apples way.

If that is the case why did you buy it ?

Mark.[/quote]

Well, Mark, unlike you I am not omniscient. Drag and drop works across the board but not in this instance.