On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio <[email protected] > wrote:
> su, 2010-04-04 kello 16:46 +0200, Sebastian Krause kirjoitti: > > No video or any file format besides MP3 is needed and 4 GB is > > enough. > > The Sansa Clip would be fine, but... > > > - It would be nice to somehow have podcasts and music seperated on > > the player. I don't want a "music library" where I have to look > > for the podcasts between all the music. Basically simple > > file-system browsing is all I need. > > You can kind of do that, the Clip separates files tagged with the genre > "podcast" from any other files. That doesn't quite work as well as it > could, though. AFAIK there's no way of queuing all podcasts at once, you > can only queue all episodes of the same podcast. Since the Clip supports > playlists, you'd think this could be worked around by creating a > playlist of all podcasts, but you can't put files tagged with "podcast" > into the playlists, the Clip just doesn't see those files when playing > the list. The way I do it is I make sure the podcast files have no genre > tags at all and then I make a playlist of them and set the Clip to play > the list, but then music and podcasts aren't separated when browsing the > files. I haven't tested the newest firmware too thoroughly, so some of > this stuff might be fixed. > > You can also put files in /PODCASTS, and they will be separated by the firmware. Also, the Clip+ has file browsing, as does the open source Rockbox firmware which can be put on certain Clips. > > - The player should remember the position for each single podcast > > and resume there later. I often switch between different very long > > podcasts and it's nice not to have to manually search for the last > > position. This is the most important feature and what I actually > > liked about the iPod. > > I don't think the Clip does this for every file, probably just for the > current file, but I'm not sure. > It does it for all files recognized as podcasts. > > > - The fast-forwarding shouldn't be too slow. I hate it when I > > accidentally hit a button in a 3 hour podcasts and then have to > > hold the fast-forward button for 5 minutes because it's so slow. > > The FF in the Clip gets faster the longer you hold the button, at least > to a certain point. It's been fast enough for me with podcasts such as > the Linux Link Tech Show and its two hour episodes. > Works for me. Hilton Shumway
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