This one time, at band camp, CaT wrote: >On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:25:45PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, CaT wrote: >> >On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:19:03PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> >> I've got a Cowon iAudio m3: 40GB disk, plays Ogg Vorbis, AAC, FLAC, MP3. >> >> >> >> My boss had an iRiver H340, again a 40GB disk, does all the above and also >> > >> >What are the physical interfaces on those like? >> >> The H340 has a regular "small" USB socket on it, and the iAudio has either a >> dongle guy or a cradle, both with a small USB socket. They come with small >> to regular USB cables too! > >Yeah but how do they handle going through masses of mp3s? How responsive >are they? etc...? :)
Oh, *that* interface :) The iAudio has an external control unit which means there's an extra wire and plug you can break, but means you can attach it to your shirt or bag nearby and hide the disk in a pocket. The controls take a bit of getting used to, but nowadays I leave it on random and the only thing I need to do is change volume or skip or replay a track, all of which are a simple button press, and it's easy to do it without looking. Everything else in the firmware sucks; no rating system, playlists are difficult to manage, finding a specific track to play is near impossible unless you group your tracks sensibly and use no filename longer than 10 characters (othrewise you are lagged by scroll delay to read the entire filename) and though I suspect that the unit writes last played data to the tracks themselves, no software I've found incorporates that information into its own databse to do favourites analysis. The iRiver H340 has its controls on the disk unit, and I haven't used it much so I can't comment on usability. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
