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This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poeti
by justusthane 5y ago
This is really cool. It’s amazing how “realistic” the clickwheel feels—it instantly transported me back to actually using an iPod. Also, there’s something poetic about emulating the clickwheel on the interface that replaced it :)
- racl101 5y agoI still have my original iPods. The original and the mini chromatic ones. When I'm on the go and or in a gym and I need to play music, nothing beats a simple mp3 player. Don't want the bulk of the phone. Don't want to have to touch a phone screen and engage with it. I'd rather just reach into my pocket and press buttons.
- scatters 5y agoI think smartwatches fill that niche now - at least those models with physical buttons. I'm actually impressed by how ergonomic the music listening experience on my Garmin is.
- smoldesu 5y agoI never thought I'd say this, but I actually agree. I have a Fossil Gen 5 that I use for the exact same purpose, and it works great with Bluetooth headphones.
- zeroonetwothree 5y agoI don’t like wearing a watch So for me the MP3 player is still great
- SilverRed 5y agoWhat benefit do you get from the mp3 player over a phone? Typically the main reason is to avoid bouncing while running but most runners prefer to have a watch for fitness tracking.
- fumar 5y agoRight, wearing an Apple Watch + AirPods is the modern iPod experience to me. I can leave my house without a smartphone and take a stroll or bike ride or skateboard etc with music. The Apple Watch crown provides that tactile feel missing from smartphones. I like how easy it is to turn up the volume by quickly rotating the crown up or down.
- notJim 5y agoDo you have to have the watch with LTE, or does it actually cache music locally?
- fumar 5y agoLTE but you can download music when on Wifi and keep it stored on the watch.
- systoll 5y agoIt can cache music locally – it does some guessing as to what you want by default, but you can also sync specific playlists. Current models have 32gB of storage.
- leucineleprec0n 5y agoyou can but the issue is they limit the media storage to 8gb. :eyeroll. I can see why they'd want to leave some to the OS, but it really defeats half the purpose of 32 on a watch as is if limited to 8GB for media.
- SilverRed 5y agoAs far as I know, only apple music saves it locally but spotify and others can stream if you have LTE. I believe this is just a hold up from spotify and the apis are available though.
- systoll 5y agoAs of about a month ago, Spotify can download content to watch too.
- racl101 5y agoI was debating getting a watch. Maybe I'll give this a try.
- schrijver 5y agoFWIW, if there’s one thing I love about wearing a non-smart watch is that it keeps me from doing all the other things my phone incites me to do (check messages etc) when all I want to know is the time. A bit like you use your MP3 player to, well, play MP3’s.
- websap 5y agoAirpods + iPhone/Apple Watch. No wires, nothing to put in your pockets when you're lifting and running. Who loads an MP3 player?
- wlesieutre 5y agoThe square iPod Shuffle with the clip on the back was great for running! Still had a wire, but no need for pockets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#/media/File:Apple-iPod-Shuffle-Display.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Shuffle#/media/File:Apple... I think I've got one somewhere. Weirdest thing about it was the cable, it used a USB 2 (4 pins) to TRRS cable for syncing with the computer.
- ngcc_hk 5y agoStill use mine on an old one that accept the older iPod interface for music playing. Not all songs go into it though. For the player I wonder whether I can trust it fir the access to my iphone account. Or Spotify.
- davidmurdoch 5y agoIs the click wheel "feel" experience only on iOS? I don't get any haptic feedback on Android
- muhammadusman 5y agoI don't feel the click haptic feedback on iOS with iPhone 12
- justusthane 5y agoNo, no haptic feedback for me either. It would be interesting to try, but honestly it might make it feel more gimmicky if not done perfectly.
- nuccy 5y agoDepends on the phone, high-end phones (iPhone obviously, but also Samsung S XYZ, et al.) have quite good "vibration" these days, since it is produced by more sophisticated mechanism [1] than just rotating motor. [1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/16768/apple-taptic-engine-haptic-feedback https://www.ifixit.com/News/16768/apple-taptic-engine-haptic...
- nuccy 5y agoNo vibration feedback on Android, something like navigator.vibrate(...) can be used for that [1] [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/vibrate https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/v... or https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/ https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/vibration/
- breck 5y ago> transported me back I felt the same way! It was 2003 again. Cool stuff. Thanks to the OP!
- kfarr 5y agoAgreed! And given the source code is available maybe someone could hack together a prototype of this Onion classic: https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA
- Biggsie 5y agoOMG. Thanks for bringing back that Onion classic. The sentence suggestions are legendary Onion.
- beeandapenguin 5y ago+1 Would be super cool if this integrated with the Battery Status API for even more realism! Looks like the spec is getting updated with more modern security and privacy practices. https://www.w3.org/TR/battery-status/ https://www.w3.org/TR/battery-status/
- dylan604 5y ago"Sadly, this only works on Chrome Desktop" when clicking the sign in to Spotify on my iPhone. definitely doesn't have that "it just works feel" in that regard. However, driving the click wheel is fun. I did instinctively click on the buttons that would pop up in the menu by clicking them directly the first time rather than spinning the wheel to get to them. Just shows how much more powerful the touch screen is.
- mparlane 5y agoI think in terms of scrolling through the big lists, the wheel was a far superior scrolling device than touch scroll is.
- beeandapenguin 5y agoI have to admit, this was first time I've considered trialing Apple Music after being a longtime Spotify customer. Lack of browser support in a Spotify Web API providing free advertising for Apple Music. The irony!
- dylan604 5y agoWhat's the big deal? Just install our App. It's soooo much better in all the data we can take from you, er provide you.
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- neurostimulant 5y agoHmm, it works on firefox desktop on my end. Maybe they just doesn't support safari?
- brundolf 5y agoPart of what makes it feel so good is that it keeps tracking if your finger goes outside of the actual wheel. This mimics the fact that you could keep your finger in the physical wheel by feeling the edges