Well I'm thinking about getting one of the new shuffles, just for going to the gym and stuff. The problem is that the controls are on the headphone cord. For obvious reasons I do not want to use the iPod ear buds. So I'm trying to think of a workaround for this. I'm sure I could just hack off the ear buds and put in an 1/8th inch jack, but I like something a little more elegant.
The headphones use a TRRS jack. I'm assuming that it outputs a line level signal that can just be attenuated by the little control. That seems simple enough, but the song changing it's where I would think it gets a little more difficult. Especially since the control varies based on how long you hold the button.
Any thoughts? Or should I just get one of the old 2 gig models?