[jasondudley]

Regarding Shuffle Mode:

Thom22, I too hated that. I figured out that you can just select your first song and let it start playing - then, on the Now Playing screen, click it to make the controls come up. On the bottom right corner of the top controls is a button to turn Shuffle Mode on or off.

[maremare]

As a listener to mainly classical music I want album shuffle back. Shuffling "songs" doesn't work well with classical pieces and I want to be make playlist where all albums are always played in the same order.

[sharpy]

Now this isn't so much something that should be added to iPod as something that was removed, and made part of the Clock app. Something that I've missed since I traded in my trusty Nano for an iPhone is the ability to use my iTunes playlists as alarm tones. I've heard that the new APIs in the SDK will allow apps to access your iTunes media—maybe an update to the trusty iPhone Clock is imminent?
The other thing is the ability to shuffle by album. I find it ever-so-slightly ironic that I can utilise shuffle by album with the Remote app (granted that feature is built into iTunes, and Remote can't change the setting), but can't do the same thing in iPod.
Sharpy.

[gbandy]

I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on earth who covets this feature but Apple, please, please include the ability to crossfade on the iPhone/Tough and ALL ipods. It's great on the newest Nano and as a former DJ, I've always really appreciated the flow of segued music.

[rwolfman]

The video playback controls stink! I'm an old Video iPod fan, and I found the circular scroll wheel (for fast-forwarding, etc.) to be far superior to the current iPhone method. The circular scroll had much better fine-tuning control to get to where you needed to go (e.g., past the 3.5 minute commercials of a TV show).

[jimmylittle]

to everyone wanting better scrubbing, it'll be here in 3.0. It's still not as good as the scroll wheel, but it works so much better. You just hold the scrub indicator, it gets a little halo. Slide your finger down the screen (off the scroll bar) and a speed indicator pops up, saying "Half Speed" "Double Speed", etc... Then slide forward or back as normal, but at the indicated speed. It takes a second to get used to, but it works great, especially in landscape.

[adventmedia]

I'd like to see one boring feature restored - my 2nd gen iPod allows me to shuffle by album, not just by song - a feature MIA on my iPhone 3G - those of us who listen to classical music would like to be able to hear a composition in its 3 to whatever movement entirety before moving on… and I'm sure there are fuddy-duddies out there who remember "album rock" who would feel the same.

[iMudd]

Have to agree with luomat2; the inability to "scrub" a long audio file in a meaningful way is my #1 complaint.

I listen to podcasts on the iPhone, and sometimes I missed something that was said, and want to jump back a few seconds to hear it. As luomat2 stated, this is easy using an iPod clickwheel. It is horrible on the iPhone's audio scrollbar. In fact, it is impossible if the audio file is more than a couple of minutes in length -- the longer the file, the bigger the "chunks" I have to move through, often 2-3 minutes in length. And, I'm using my comparatively huge finger to find a very tiny point on the audio scrollbar. It is incredibly frustrating, as I run into this several times a day.

I'd suggest taking a cue from the TiVo remote, and just add a button (or gesture, or something) that jumps back 10 seconds each time it is pressed. That'd satisfy me, anyway.

[jimmylittle]

it's coming! today! 3.0 has a replay button, that automatically jumps back 30 seconds. It's right under the scrub bar between the "Repeat" and "Shuffle" buttons.

just wish jump back duration was user-definable. 30 seconds is a little too long for me...

[Hakeswill]

All I want is to be able to sync my iPhone (particularly my music) wirelessly. I believe this is possible over MobileMe, but I don't have (and don't want) that. Surely it can't be that difficult over a wireless network, or am I missing something?

[vaporman]

The only iPod function I want in an iPhone is 120GB hard drive.

[cstewartsewanee]

Lyrics:
If you just run Harmonic on your mac's Dashboard in the background, then before you know it all the lyrics are pretty much there anyway. I know this isn't the perfect solution (not on the go, no pc users, etc.), but it works pretty well for me.

[Plan_K]

I tried. I really tried to like the new iPhone iPod audio/video scrubbing features in iPhone 3.0.

And the features are better than nothing. But not a whole lot better than nothing.

The click wheel of an old iPod is so much superior and so much easier to use and feel sightlessly.

I really wanted to test the iPhone's iPod scrub features for a full 24 hours before dismissing them, but I had to abandon the test when I tried to use it while driving. I hooked the iPhone to my car speakers and played a podcast. Realizing I heard a segment of the podcast previously, I wanted to fast forward to another segment within the same podcast. But with my eyes on the road and at least one hand on the wheel, there was no way I could lift the iPhone to where I could see it, activate the iPhone screen, get into the iPod mode, tap to select the scrubber, put my finger on the status bar, pull down to get fine scrubbing and watch as I scrubbed forward in time.

On a click wheel, you keep your eyes on the road, feel for the iPod's click wheel, click the center button once, and swirl a thumb around the wheel once and?boom?you're a minute ahead.

But forget about it being a safety issue while driving. Scrubbing in iPhone 3.0 simply requires too many steps and requires too much focus to do something that on a device released previously by the same company simply works so much better.

I can see how the new scrub features on the iPhone might be handy when scrubbing through video. Your screen is already active. Your focus is already on the video. So it's not so much trouble to use the scrub feature.

But it's still not as intuitive or as easy to use as the click wheel. And it's not as intuitive as scrolling through photos in the iPhone camera's photo album and enlarging or shrinking them. Gestures in some of the iPhone apps make perfect sense. Why not incorporate those into the iPod? Or better yet, why not give us the best tool so far for navigating the iPod?the click wheel? Can't that be created and sold as an inline remote control on a set of headphones. I'd buy it. In a second.

[jimmylittle]

one hundred percent agreed. if Apple, or anyone else (I'm looking at you, Griffin...) came out with a iPod Nano-sized clickwheel built into a matchbox sized wireless remote, I'd have $75 waiting for you at the register.