Magical iPod

For a while now I’ve been concerned about the ability of my iPod to magically play music. Not the fact that it can actually do what it does ie. “play music” - but that it always appears to be playing music even though I’m quite sure I didn’t want it to.

For example, I’d open up the little temporary case I have it in and notice that it’s playing. Or I’d check on it after a coffee break and see that it started playing again. I’ve double-checked the hold button, but that always appears to be okay. So I quickly turn it off - constantly worried about the battery in the poor little bugger.

A couple of times it got so bad after a day of work I noticed that the battery was down to the red - even though I had charged it the night before.

Then this morning the clouds parted and I discovered why my iPod was acting so magical. The very first day I got it I tried out the alarm clock. Low and behold, I had never gotten around to turning the function back off and so every morning around 8:55 he was powering up and playing my most recently played tracks. Now there’s something they don’t mention in the manual!

At least now I’ve had the opportunity to read the apple iPod battery page from front to back and vice-versa a number of times and understand the following:

• That I should never leave said iPod out in the sun
• I should always use the hold button
• I should minimise my skipping
• I should avoid using the EQ

All of this in the quest to get as many music-hours out of my iPod as possible!

Posted by Christian 21 May 2005

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