bhaagensen;447407 Wrote: > But did it actually work reliably for you? It was always rather flaky > for me, especially when going to 4x, or even worse 8x which was almost > useless. It seemed many had the similar problems. Also I couldn't really > recognise the sound when it was fast forwarding. AFAIK it wasn't playing > the samples quicker (as a conventional CDP), but rather just skipping > some.
Yes, it worked reliably for me. I'd often go up to 64x to skip quickly through a long piece of music to find the next gap. It didn't work well if you fast-forward too far, i.e. through track boundaries, but neither does the new mechanism. I know some people seemed to have reliability issues, perhaps relating to mis-use/mis-understanding of the feature. After all, there's no documentation. I personally found it quite intuitive, as it was quite similar to Sky+ fast-forward, and VCRs. The audio effect was to play a snipit from the current scan position periodically. So no matter how fast you are scanning, it played at the same speed. It was good enough to detect where the sound had changed significantly, so I knew when to stop fast-forwarding (by pressing play). There's no reason why it couldn't have been incorporated into the new mechanism. eg. having got the progress bar up to adjust playback position, press and hold << or >> to fast-forward through the track with audio. Maybe allow the speed of fast-forward/rewind to be adjusted to fine-tune the position. eg. the longer you hold the button down, the quicker it would scan through the track. -- Philip Meyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip Meyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=95 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66542 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
