Ipod Being Accessed Unnecessarily?

[Alejandro Wainzinger]

So, iPods make a clicking sound when the hard drive is being accessed.
 In Amarok 1, I only hear this at the beginning when the database is
loaded, and on song change.  In Amarok 2, I hear it fairly constantly,
even if no songs are being played on the iPod.  Is there something,
like the cover fetcher for instance, constantly trying to update
itself and therefore accessing the iPod?  I'm concerned with this as I
don't want unnecessary hard drive use for obvious reasons.

Secondly, and maybe this question goes to aumuell et al, when I play
songs on A2 the iPod shows the icon of two arced arrows spinning
around, as if it's constantly being read off of, whereas in A1 this
usually only happens on track change.  Is something different about
the way files are played in A2 as opposed to A1?