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> On mine, you can do stuff like adjust how long the backlight stays on
> after you press a button (so you can conserve battery power - or not),
I really only use mine in the car, so it's always on charge, but still I
like having the backlight turn off after 5 or 10 seconds of not pressing a
button (I could do this anyway on the iPod firmware and seems to still
behave the same now by default).
> whether tracks cross-fade into each other, whether it advances to the next
> folder or loops or stops when it finishes all the tracks in the current
> folder, and so on. I believe you can also install themes...
Oh yes, after the install it popped up asking me if I wanted to install a
theme, so I chose a nice looking one from the list and it put it on there.
It really is a well designed installer.
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>> I believe you can also install themes...
>
> Oh yes, after the install it popped up asking me if I wanted to install
> a theme, so I chose a nice looking one from the list and it put it on
> there. It really is a well designed installer.
Heh. All I got was 3 Zip files. Unzip them all on top of each other in
the correct place on the player's harddrive, and plug the player into
its charger. Assuming you didn't screw up, it now works. And you can
then change (and even to some degree edit) themes on the player itself.
(The default theme was not quite to my liking.)
You, it seems, got an actual *installer*...
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> You, it seems, got an actual *installer*...
There was only one download, supposedly for all supported players, so maybe
they sorted out an installer since you did it?
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scott wrote:
>> You, it seems, got an actual *installer*...
>
> There was only one download, supposedly for all supported players, so
> maybe they sorted out an installer since you did it?
Heh, yeah, it was a year or so ago.
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:09:32 +0200, scott wrote:
> Only problem I noticed is that pressing "skip next" sometimes takes 2 or
> 3 seconds to skip to the next track (I'm sure it was almost instant on
> the original firmware) - that's a bit annoying but maybe there are some
> settings to tweak...
I don't notice it taking that long to switch, but it does buffer so
there's gapless playback (something Apple wouldn't put in their
firmware). It may be that the buffering thread isn't buffering enough to
jump ahead to the next track at that point.
Jim
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:26:53 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
>>> You, it seems, got an actual *installer*...
>>
>> There was only one download, supposedly for all supported players, so
>> maybe they sorted out an installer since you did it?
>
> Heh, yeah, it was a year or so ago.
There was an installer then, but myself, I build from the source, since I
get involved in chasing bugs down on occasion.
I used the installer to get the bootloader on it, that's really the
biggest part for the iPod mini. After that it's just unpacking it.
Jim
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Invisible wrote:
> whether tracks cross-fade into each other, whether it advances to the
I'd be happy with a player that would play adjacent tracks adjacent to each
other.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:12:55 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> whether tracks cross-fade into each other, whether it advances to the
>
> I'd be happy with a player that would play adjacent tracks adjacent to
> each other.
Rockbox does that. You configure the fade time to 0 and tell it to
crossfade. With the version I build, I include the debug menus, which is
really cool because you can watch the buffering thread do its thing.
Jim
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> I don't notice it taking that long to switch, but it does buffer so
> there's gapless playback (something Apple wouldn't put in their
> firmware). It may be that the buffering thread isn't buffering enough to
> jump ahead to the next track at that point.
It only happens on I'd say about 20% of track skips, the rest are almost
instant. I'll try and have a play about with the buffering settings over
the weekend.
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On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:20:00 +0200, scott wrote:
>> I don't notice it taking that long to switch, but it does buffer so
>> there's gapless playback (something Apple wouldn't put in their
>> firmware). It may be that the buffering thread isn't buffering enough
>> to jump ahead to the next track at that point.
>
> It only happens on I'd say about 20% of track skips, the rest are almost
> instant. I'll try and have a play about with the buffering settings
> over the weekend.
That definitely sounds like the buffering thread just doesn't have the
next track yet.
Jim
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