Damn, I had it on good authority they would release a Bernie Mac Edition iPod.

I did order a blue iPod nano for my girlfriend yesterday afternoon. It was for her birthday, which was on September 2nd. Luckily she was ok with waiting until this week as I told her newer models were coming out. The Nike+iPod sport kit (which I did buy in the 2nd) is still waiting here in its box for the iPod.

Does anyone recall if the new search feature works on the nano as well? And does anyone know if the nanos (for that matter any of the iPods) have crossfading?

Search is definitely part of the new nano software. I didn't see it on their site either, but just take a look at the photos on this guy's flickr page.

The news on the weeb is that Microsoft will be launching the Zune tomorrow at an invite-only event. Hopefully its agressive features will put some pressure on Apple to kick up the iPod. I'm hoping the current 5.5G (as it's being called) is just a stop-gap until they come to market with a larger screen version with some form of wireless connectivity (it would have to have been in development for some time and may or may not just be delayed). But of course let's see what MS' software platform does with all these reported hardware features.

I'm about to set up my entire music library in iTunes for the first time ever. I've only used iTunes here and there to play single tracks and to develop things like our remote software. I'll be using an external 250GB drive to hold the collection - hopefully I won't have any issues with the removable device. This will finally let my girlfriend do her own music management for loading/unloading her portable player. She never got into RMM with her old player. Of course we never loaded a significant amount of music onto that system either.

This might be of help: Multiple iTunes libraries in iTunes 7

Their search is quite nice, as it's a full grep. Not screamingly fast, though, the search just seems to run in the background and deliver results as and when it finds them. Not as fast as the phone keypad style search we're all used to

Hugo

Bummer it doesn't work on the original 5G iPods. I was excited for a bit.

This has to be a firmware update at most. See if there are any petitions online or anywhere generating any kind of buzz that Apple might notice. Get that puppy dugg and I'm sure Apple will eventually cave and offer the feature for the 5G. The new ones after all are just 5.1G anyway.