According to a video posted by gizmodo on YouTube, Apple’s iPod “will have its firmware updated soon, now featuring the Cover Flow view seen on iTunes.”
Direct link to YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFwEcmn26zI
[Attribution: Gizmodo.]
Real or fake?
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Coool!
Will that work on my shuffle?
Looks very real.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible.
MDN Magic Word: “Hit,” as in, this will be a hit with iPod users if true!
I don’t know. the itunes album scrolling slows my macbook down plenty, and it isn’t always smooth… Could an iPod really handle it? I hope so. its a cool video
Coverflow is one of those neat ideas in theory that is just so annoying in practice. It’s so much faster and accurate to scroll over a list of names rather than fly past images. Sexy? Yes.
Useful? No.
Friggin radddddd! This alone makes me want to replace my 4G iPod. I love cover flow.
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That would be nice, except it would be nicer if it had the reverse view too (like on iPhone). I vote the video to be fake, but would like to be proven wrong. It would be kinda strange to just put coverflow in there without changing the rest of the gui. I would love to see apple release a new gui (iPhone style) for leopard that extends across to the iPod too, that would be so soo nice.
Hmm….Why are these videos always blurry?
Fake
May look cool, but not real useful.
Fake… Ever walk into an Apple Store. They all have those movies playing and this guys (I think) is doing just that. Playing a movie he created. My Macbook also slows down during fast cover flow
Cleverboy in the Gizmodo comments section:
LOL. Guys… this is the same iPod video nonesense people have been jerking folks around with for a while. There will BE NO COVERFLOW on the current generation iPod. NONE. The iPhone runs MacOS X and uses Core Animation, therefore, COVERFLOW. The existing iPod DO NOT run MacOS X. It is an easier, and more sensible expense for Apple to develop a method to run current generation GAMES on the iPhone, than to mystically make Coverflow backwards compatible with the 5 and 5.5 generation iPod.
If you love these tricks, you’re going to LOVE the tricks people will be playing when the iPhone is released. Hey, look at me, I’m running Vista on my iPhone!!! Now I’m playing Halo using Touchscreen! I am l33t!
I’m going to compile a list of iPod video pranks for people at some point. It’s really funny what people will believe.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/exclusive-video-leaked-ipod-firmware-coming-enables-cover-flow-239726.php#c1021726
On second watch… it does rather look like the touch wheel doesn’t match up with his finger that well, especially at the end when he goes to select a song to play. He scrolls down on the click wheel but it stays on the first song.
Bummer…
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i doubt the old iPods can handle that.
it’ very easy to fake, just load a movie showing coverflow on your iPod.
I Want That on my 2nd 4GB Gen Silver Nano
I think it’s easier to search by artist than album. Coverflow is cool, but not so useful.
Even my iMac slows down using CoverFlow. Of course, I have the cover images set to be about 800 pixels tall.
On my old laptop with a P3 and integrated graphics card, when the artwork is the size of a shuffle it doesn’t really lag. It can barely handle iPod videos (640×480, 1500 mbps H.264) but can do coverflow with small album art just fine, so I don’t think it would be that hard for the iPod, which does iPod-size video no problem, to do coverflow with no problem. Besides, the artwork is gonna be optimized for the iPod, which would make it about 200 pixels tall, so there’s probably little chance it would lag.
I think it’s fake. At the very beginning, the thumb starts scrolling before the album art starts moving. Looks like the demonstrator did not time it right with the video he is playing on the iPod.
I vote FAKE!!
and agree that it’s more useless then it is neat looking
Real –
Whether it is useful or not – vid is real.
I like coverflow – Yes, it is easier to search other ways. Coverflow is not for searching, it is for Browsing. Looking for something that will catch your fancy at the moment, just like thumbing through LPs
(Note: LPs are music discs made from vinyl. They came in various sizes, the most popular was the album that spun at 33 and 1/3 rpm and typically held about a CD’s worth of music. A needle rode in grooves pressed into the vinyl that caused a vibration that was amplified to create the recorded sound.)
Ooh, bad fake… Especially at the very start and the very end.
I agree that Coverflow is annoying in practice. It’s like widgets. Never use’em.
*clutches iPod* “It’s a FAAAAAAAKE!”
Star Trek DS9 fans will get the joke, lol.
Fake. Next…
Cover Flow is about as useful as Windows Flip 3D Navigation. Yawn. I really wish they would waste their time on more useful things.
I use multiple widgets every single day. Love ’em.
MW: method – “Your method of operation may not be everyone else’s method of operation.”
totally FAKE. it’s just a video playing on the ipod. why do people waste the time…
So this isn’t for the new upcoming iPods (the ones without that anoying phone bit). This looks like it may work on the standard 80gig model sweet. Small but sweet.