New Step

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Another useful point about the iPod is the European volume limit. The
story goes that Steve Jobbs is a little deaf and, during the design of
the iPod insisted that the top volume be higher. Being the boss, this is
how the iPod is.

Well, in BB Europe, it was decided that the iPod was too loud. So, there
is a top volume limit for models sold here that is less than that for
the rest of the world. Apple did this by simply modifying one of the
entries in the song database. The iPod can have a per-song volume
normalization. To obtain the required volume limiting, this value was
set to a lower maximum value in iTunes in Europe.

If you use the Linux gtkPod to control your iPod, the volume setting can
be overridden, giving us Europeans the original iPod maximum volume. I
modified my gtkPod to make the volume setting the max without me having
to set it this way for each song, letting ME decide to listen at a lower
volume. I do understand how to use a volume control, despite the EU
worries on my behalf.


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:49 -0600, Alan Jackson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:41:13 -0500
> Nobody <nobody at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to Tom Wilson we now have a Step on Setting up an Ipod on Linux.
> > You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/non_pc/iPod.html
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
>