Re:Fast-forward?
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Chuckstar
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· Score: 2, Informative
According to the User's Guide, pressing the forward or reverse button quickly skips to the next or previous song. Holding down the button fast-forwards or rewinds within the song.
Background pattern
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Informative
Ugh, if you have Web Developer installed on Firefox, I highly recommend you use it to turn off the background image. Much easier to read the text with the background off.
HTML version of PDF!
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antdude
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· Score: 2, Informative
-- Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Re:Inspired Technology.
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XxtraLarGe
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· Score: 4, Informative
Not to the 95% of the world's population for whom price is a bigger factor.
I was just at Walmart this weekend pricing MP3 players. Most of the 256 MB Rio's and MuVo's were in the $89-99 price range. In this instance, I'd say a $99 512 MB iPod is highly competitive.
-- Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
The controls on the surface of the case are not fastened to the contacts they operate.
So, [it looks like] you can slide the circuit board out from underneath the buttons without first removing them.
Re:Inspired Technology.
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UWC
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· Score: 2, Informative
Yeah, but any more storage capacity and the lack of display would be more than just an inconvenience. I have a 128MB MuVo and with its mere 30-song capacity the lack of display still gets annoying. It has identical controls to the Shuffle, plus an A-B loop button (and a replaceable AAA battery). I can't imagine trying to navigate through a GB of music with just the controls available there.
The Shuffle feature and iTunes integration will be the selling points, undoubtedly, and very likely enough to make it sell well. I wouldn't mind having shuffle on my MuVo. The actually competitive price point (though current MuVo models have a display) doesn't hurt, either. I see it selling fairly well as a companion to the HD-based iPods and iPod minis.
This thread at head-fi.org has some additional comments regarding the chip.
It looks to be a basic MP3 decoder + DAC + integrated headphone amplifier with support for custom DRM algorithms, no fancy custom chips here. It is interesting that the chip has audio record features as well as FM tuner input and control capability. The data sheet also mentions that it can be upgraded for codecs other than MP3 (and obviously AAC and WMA). Ogg anyone?
Maybe we can expect to see some hacking of this player to enable some of these unused features.
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According to the User's Guide, pressing the forward or reverse button quickly skips to the next or previous song. Holding down the button fast-forwards or rewinds within the song.
Ugh, if you have Web Developer installed on Firefox, I highly recommend you use it to turn off the background image. Much easier to read the text with the background off.
Thanks Google! Much faster over dial-up. :P
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Not to the 95% of the world's population for whom price is a bigger factor.
I was just at Walmart this weekend pricing MP3 players. Most of the 256 MB Rio's and MuVo's were in the $89-99 price range. In this instance, I'd say a $99 512 MB iPod is highly competitive.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
The controls on the surface of the case are not fastened to the contacts they operate.
So, [it looks like] you can slide the circuit board out from underneath the buttons without first removing them.
The Shuffle feature and iTunes integration will be the selling points, undoubtedly, and very likely enough to make it sell well. I wouldn't mind having shuffle on my MuVo. The actually competitive price point (though current MuVo models have a display) doesn't hurt, either. I see it selling fairly well as a companion to the HD-based iPods and iPod minis.
Honor Among Slackers. A veri
According to IpodLounge, the MP3 decoder chip is a SigmaTel D-Major STMP3550 (PDF).
This thread at head-fi.org has some additional comments regarding the chip.
It looks to be a basic MP3 decoder + DAC + integrated headphone amplifier with support for custom DRM algorithms, no fancy custom chips here. It is interesting that the chip has audio record features as well as FM tuner input and control capability. The data sheet also mentions that it can be upgraded for codecs other than MP3 (and obviously AAC and WMA). Ogg anyone?
Maybe we can expect to see some hacking of this player to enable some of these unused features.