{"id":2356450,"date":"2009-02-16T12:49:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/segue.middlebury.edu\/view\/html\/node\/2356450"},"modified":"2021-01-01T17:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T17:51:03","slug":"video-ipods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/2009\/02\/16\/video-ipods\/","title":{"rendered":"Video iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nVideo iPods in Education
Apple released its 5th generation (5G) of iPods last fall. The most dramatic new feature of these iPods is that they play video. In addition, these latest iPods while being smaller in overall size have a larger screen (2.5 inches) with a resolution of 320×240 pixels.<\/p>\n

There are also improvements in the iPod user interface (UI) that are worthy of note for educators (or anyone who wants to use an iPod for learning…) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\u00a0
\nMore Metadata…<\/span>
If
\nsong lyrics (or text intended to accompany the audio) are included in
\nthe audio file, then these can now be displayed on the iPod. This means
\nthat you can embed text in your audio files that users can read while
\nthey listen. Before 5G iPods, the only way you could deliver text along
\nwith your audio was put it in an RSS 2.0 feed. Someone would then have
\nto subscribe to your RSS feed in iTunes in order to get the description
\nfield. Earlier iPods did display this description test. <\/p>\n

The
\nmain difference is that text in the lyrics field is embedded in the
\naudio file and so is an integral part of it whereas text in the RSS
\ndescription is only linked to the audio file in the iTunes Library and
\nso is not included when you download the file directly. To be certain
\nyour text is always included with your audio file, it is best to add it
\nto both the lyrics field and in the description field of your RSS 2.0
\nfeed (if you have access to a tool that generates RSS). Those with 5G
\niPods will get your text regardless of how they download your file
\nwhereas those with earlier iPods will need to download your file via an
\nRSS feed.<\/p>\n

In addition to displaying more metadata, the latest
\niPods also make access to this metadata sticky. That is to say, as you
\nare playing a file, you can click the center button once to access the
\nscrub UI (that allows you to scroll forward and back in file), twice to
\nview the file image (e.g. album art), three times to get the rating UI
\nand four times to get to lyrics or RSS description. On earlier iPods,
\nthe screen would revert to the standard playback UI (i.e. display of
\nimage, artist, album and title) after a few seconds. On 5G iPods
\nhowever, the screen remains (i.e. sticks) at the UI you lasted
\nselected. This means that you can read accompanying text as you listen.
\nThis text could be song lyrics, a summary of the audio contents, a list
\nof study questions, the transcription of a dialogue for language study
\nand so on.<\/p>\n

High Quality Audio Recording<\/span>
Much
\nof the audio on this website was recorded using an 4G iPod with an
\niTalk voice recorder. For the most part the audio quality is
\nacceptable. Earlier iPods allowed you to record in mono at 8KHz 128
\nKbps. The 5G iPod is capable of recording audio stereo at 44.1 KHz 1411
\nkbps. Two vendors, Belkin<\/a> and MicroMemo<\/a> have promised microphones for 5G iPods this spring.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video iPods in EducationApple released its 5th generation (5G) of iPods last fall. The most dramatic new feature of these iPods is that they play video. In addition, these latest iPods while being smaller in overall size have a larger… More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5750],"tags":[5753,4942,4,5756],"class_list":["post-2356450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2356351","tag-ipods","tag-metadata","tag-news","tag-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200002668226,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356450\/revisions\/200002668226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/segueproject.org\/ipods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}