Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:35:38 -0400 From: "David Hettel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Thoughts on the Jukebox Hi Derek, Just a couple of questions, What do you mean by stop responding? Did it power down, or just quit playing, or did it lock up and you had to reset it? Does it have a way of showing if the disk is going bad? eg bad blocks or bad sectors? or does it display free space, free time? What I'm wondering is if it was damaged, by your jogging? Thanks David Hettel "Derek Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8q3kf1$sku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > After shopping for months, I decided on the Jukebox and waited a couple of > months for the release. I decided to be impaitent and just buy it off > Amazon.com for the full $500. My initial thoughts are as follows: > > 1) You CANNOT run with it! I tried today on a 4mi run and between every > song, or about 2min into any song, the thing would stop responding. I > noticed that instead of skipping and resuming like a CD player, the Jukebox > just stops responding, I wonder if anything can be done about that? > > 2) I have a medium-large collection of downloaded MP3s and I spent 5-6 hours > renaming them (800) so the ID3 tags would show the artist and genre, etc. > However, all the filenames were in the same format (Artist - Title of Song) > so there should be a program the can automattically fill in the ID3 tags as > long as each song is in the same format. > > 3) Also, I saw someone else complain about this, but I like LOUD music, and > the headphones dont go loud enough. I know I can get that boost thing but > Ive spent enough money, and I dont wanna carry anything around, thats why I > bought it in the first place (so not to carry CDs) but I found a small > solution to this problem. Simply go to the Equilizer and boost everything by > 6-10dB. > > 4) I know that nothing can be done about this, but the menus move too slowly > when a song is playing, and it can get very annoying. > > 5) The battery time is WAY too low! There should be something else to extend > the battery time. > > 6) These things can be changed by firmware: Need a battery indicator, I > never have any idea how much battery time I have left. Obviously, this has > been discussed, but a way to fast forward and rewind, and also a countdown > timer. And also a way to search songs. > > Well, overall not bad, but for $500 those things shouldnt be a problem. > There will be more that Ill add, but this is all of the BAD stuff that I can > think of now. So not so scare anyone away from the Jukebox, it is a GREAT > prodcut and works very well for me and I have no regrets other than how much > I spent. By the way I bought a Silver one because the Blue was backordered > when I ordered it I guess so I had to cancel my order and order the Silver > one. > > Derek Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
