Coverflow and continous Hard Drive Spin - workaround

Okay, so I have a nice, new, shiny black 80g ipod classic that works and feels great.
Bad news - my battery goes flat fast. This is not the desired behavior, not what I had in mind...
Through experimentation (that is, sticking the unit to my ear and listening), I discover that the drive is still spinning when I launch a song from coverflow.
The solution - simply hit the menu button once from the launched song. This briefly displays the coverflow screen, and the drive stops. It then times out, goes back to my song, and all is good. From this point on the device works great, until I launch a different album/song using Coverflow. Then, a simple menu tap, and all is good again.
This works for me. You can try it for yourself by launching a different song/album from Coverflow and listening to the unit (should hear the drive spinning, relatively high pitched sound). Then hit the menu button once, and the sound will soon stop. If it works you will notice the difference.
I can get this this to repeat practically every time. Apple has a bug here, I am fairly certain (and I write software for mobile devices, I have created my share...). But there is a simple workaround until it is fixed.
To rehash, when launching a song/album from coverflow on an Ipod classic, I hit the menu button once from the song screen. The drive will stop spinning and behave fine until I launch the next item from coverflow.
Can others verify this?
thanks,
jgregc

Hi jgregc,
I have a brandnew IPod Classic with Firmware 1.0.2 and I followed your description. Yes, I can verify this exact behaviour. In addition I also tried to start listening to an album which I did not select with cover flow and the disc stops spinning after two or three seconds as it should.
As a conclusion I think that
1. this is a bug! Apple please fix this with 1.0.3 (or will it be version 1.1 after that amount of time?)
2. this procedure should work as a workaround until then. So in my opinion a downgrade to 1.0.1 isn't necessary as long as you are careful with "shutting the IPod down"
Hope this helped.
Best regards, Jens.

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