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So last night we headed down to the Apple Store to take a look at the new iPods that came in. They had the new shuffles, Phat Nano and the iPod Classic. I've been most interested in the Classic because of the larger storage offerings and battery life. I'd love to get my entire music collection on there.

While demoing the iPod Classic, I played with the Coverflow effect and was really enjoying it, even though it was a bit slow to render the album graphics. I realize it can't be helped but what I found afterwards was a real bummer.

While playing a song on the iPod Classic, I went back into coverflow to switch songs. During my flipping through album covers I noticed the music that was currently playing began to stutter. This can't be right I thought to myself. So I got off of that unit and went to another. Sure enough, same problem. I then tried it on one of the newer Nano's and the problem didn't rear it's ugly head. Seems like this stuttering while playing music and searching coverflow only occurs on the iPod Classic. I will assume that this is due to the fact that the Classic has a hard disk drive and maybe not enough processing power to run both? Hopefully it's just a glitch and can be fixed with a firmware update.

This makes it a bummer for me since I'd love to be able to scroll through the covers of my music while listening to music...

Have you noticed this in your iPod Classic?