>The original method may have been more precise... >Song Scanner is so much quicker and easier to >use for this. The graphics help you estimate how far into the track you >are. I use it for long radio podcasts as well as short music tracks.
The new method allows you to set playback to a fairly-specific position, but you need to know what that specific position is. That's all very well if you know that your favourite bit of a song is at 3:34 and you want to jump close to that position. However, I hardly ever want to jump to a known position in a song - I generally play whole tracks. The only time I want to scan forwards is when I'm listening to long podcasts of new music. If a song comes on within that long podcast that I want to skip, I want to fast-forward with audio feedback until I detect a change in the music. If all I have to go on is a proportional bar, all I have to go on is guess work. Because I don't know the music, I don't know how long it is, or where the tempo changes are, etc. Even worse, I listen to some quiz podcasts, where the questions are at the front, and answers at the end. Sometimes I find myself wanting to skip forwards and backwards, but not too far or I may reveal the answers before I'm ready. The graphics do not help me estimate how far into the track I am, nor more to the point help predict how far into the future I need to seek to find the gap between songs. Don't get me wrong, the scanner has been implemented well, and it serves its purpose well. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover my needs, and I have generally resorted to listening to such podcasts on an iPod, that does implement both ways of scanning and seeking (albiet not as well as SC used to). I think it's a bit techy - working like computer software products rather than other typical consumer products - PVRs, etc. Phil _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
