Quote by ukre:and then also to have your tech support department fend off all the people complaining that they can't play their iTunes purchased content on your player, as they wrongly assumed that AAC support means iTunes store support.
Quote by epithetless:I agree with floorten's requests, as well as this one:
Quote by Peregrine on 2006-12-05, 21:13:- Re: the lock function. It would be nice to be able to FFWD or RWD through songs, in addition to PLAY/PAUSE while locked. Only disable the rotary VOL.
The ability to disable only the rotary function of the scroll wheel/D-pad would be sublime.
Quote by ukre:AAC isn't a problem for anyone to implement, it's just that it costs to license the codec - and then also to have your tech support department fend off all the people complaining that they can't play their iTunes purchased content on your player, as they wrongly assumed that AAC support means iTunes store support.
Quote by Peregrine on 2006-12-06, 14:18:Yea, the Wheel does PITCHBEND, SEEK and BRIGHTNESS. Touch the wheel. When VOL comes up, press LEFT and you can toggle between the 4 options.
Better quality screen?!? I'm puzzled by that one. I have ZERO complaints about that. I think it's very pretty. Then again, I haven't seen as many as you have. lol
Quote by ukre on 2006-12-07, 14:02:AAC isn't a problem for anyone to implement, it's just that it costs to license the codec - and then also to have your tech support department fend off all the people complaining that they can't play their iTunes purchased content on your player, as they wrongly assumed that AAC support means iTunes store support.
Quote by kwhilden:What I would really like is to use the scroll wheel to navigate the current playlist when pressing the center button. For some reason, the scroll wheel controls volume in this view only. Additionally, if this view had all of the Now Playing functionality, then I would be in heaven.
Quote by RubenNYC:Quote by kwhilden:What I would really like is to use the scroll wheel to navigate the current playlist when pressing the center button. For some reason, the scroll wheel controls volume in this view only. Additionally, if this view had all of the Now Playing functionality, then I would be in heaven.
I thought you could already do this. The only quirk is that you have to click Menu > Now Playing to do this.
Right, that's the whole point. Running-order editing on the Karma worked the way you're asking for, and it was a real problem: Riovolution had a constant stream of people who had just never found the running-order editing facilities. (You had to press the stick, then press the wheel -- and the entire rest of the UI could be operated without knowing that the stick or wheel was even pressable.)Quote by dapreview:I noticed that too. In the Now Playing screen, when you click the center-select button, it gives you a Now Playing list that isn't functional like the Now Playing playlist (Main Menu > Now Playing).
But, but...for those of us who are loyal, it's inconsistent to change from the inconsistency!It's more consistent that way, and it's IMO only people who've got used to the Karma's inconsistent way of doing it who would want it otherwise...
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Quote by dapreview on 2006-12-09, 06:55:OGG is good enough for me personally but i know some people are already into AAC since it works with the iPod & Zune.
Quote by peter:Right, that's the whole point. Running-order editing on the Karma worked the way you're asking for, and it was a real problem: Riovolution had a constant stream of people who had just never found the running-order editing facilities. (You had to press the stick, then press the wheel -- and the entire rest of the UI could be operated without knowing that the stick or wheel was even pressable.)Quote by dapreview:I noticed that too. In the Now Playing screen, when you click the center-select button, it gives you a Now Playing list that isn't functional like the Now Playing playlist (Main Menu > Now Playing).
So, in the Sigmatel Cambridge reference firmware, it was changed so that running-order editing was available from the menu system, where it's much harder to miss, and conversely so that all the "main player screens" are informational only, with all the "functional" screens available from the menus. It's more consistent that way, and it's IMO only people who've got used to the Karma's inconsistent way of doing it who would want it otherwise...
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Quote by peter on 2006-12-10, 04:52:Right, that's the whole point. Running-order editing on the Karma worked the way you're asking for, and it was a real problem: Riovolution had a constant stream of people who had just never found the running-order editing facilities. (You had to press the stick, then press the wheel -- and the entire rest of the UI could be operated without knowing that the stick or wheel was even pressable.)
So, in the Sigmatel Cambridge reference firmware, it was changed so that running-order editing was available from the menu system, where it's much harder to miss, and conversely so that all the "main player screens" are informational only, with all the "functional" screens available from the menus. It's more consistent that way, and it's IMO only people who've got used to the Karma's inconsistent way of doing it who would want it otherwise...
I'm not fully up to date, but till some months ago Vorbis regularly scored as high or higher than AAC in double blind testing for perceptual transparency.Quote by John30_06 on 2006-12-10, 17:34:Quote by dapreview on 2006-12-09, 06:55:OGG is good enough for me personally but i know some people are already into AAC since it works with the iPod & Zune.
Zune does aac? I did not know that. Ogg is quite good lossy, and open source, but aac is very good lossy.
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