Russell":2pvdojbv said:Just trying to make room for more toys got a Fender Strat that needs to go on a stand and thinking of getting a Gibson Les Paul as well
Well that pretty much refuted my theory!
Russell":2pvdojbv said:Just trying to make room for more toys got a Fender Strat that needs to go on a stand and thinking of getting a Gibson Les Paul as well
Jake":2ndhg8rn said:Russell":2ndhg8rn said:Just trying to make room for more toys got a Fender Strat that needs to go on a stand and thinking of getting a Gibson Les Paul as well
Well that pretty much refuted my theory!
Right chaps, I have just read through the tech specs and the FAQ'a.RogerS":3e1be6vx said:TrimTheKing":3e1be6vx said:.....
The PC management thing is all well and good, but what about when the machine doesn't import the album or track names correctly (as happens ridiculously often with ALL music players/software)? How do you modify them? How long will this take?
That's what really puts me off this product even for pop and jazz music. As far as I can see all you can enter is album name and track which to my way of thinking is pretty naff. Even for pop. Surely you'd want to select by pop group? True, they say you can use the album field for the name of the group but then where do you put the name of the album? Plain daft, if you ask me.
[Waits for someone to tell me that i've got it all wrong.....]
No probs Russell, and I'm the last person who would try and talk someone out of a shiny new purchase, just wanted to make sure you knew all the details before you dove in.Russell":12qs294n said:You can choose for each cd whether to use loss less or not so for the important ones you choose loss less for the others the ones where it doesn't matter you choose MP3 its the flexibility I like. I have about 100 cds I listen to loads where I want an exact copy of the cd the others it don't matter. I have had a play with one and had a listen and played through my own kit and not just on their speakers so very happy with my choice.
TrimTheKing":mfvkdwjt said:Right chaps, I have just read through the tech specs and the FAQ'a.RogerS":mfvkdwjt said:TrimTheKing":mfvkdwjt said:.....
The PC management thing is all well and good, but what about when the machine doesn't import the album or track names correctly (as happens ridiculously often with ALL music players/software)? How do you modify them? How long will this take?
That's what really puts me off this product even for pop and jazz music. As far as I can see all you can enter is album name and track which to my way of thinking is pretty naff. Even for pop. Surely you'd want to select by pop group? True, they say you can use the album field for the name of the group but then where do you put the name of the album? Plain daft, if you ask me.
[Waits for someone to tell me that i've got it all wrong.....]
Roger, you need to look again (if you care :wink: ), there are apparently 10 searchable database fields, including artist, they just don't make it easy to find on the site.
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I read it somewhere but couldn't find it again, I will go searching.RogerS":20v2608h said:TrimTheKing":20v2608h said:Right chaps, I have just read through the tech specs and the FAQ'a.RogerS":20v2608h said:TrimTheKing":20v2608h said:.....
The PC management thing is all well and good, but what about when the machine doesn't import the album or track names correctly (as happens ridiculously often with ALL music players/software)? How do you modify them? How long will this take?
That's what really puts me off this product even for pop and jazz music. As far as I can see all you can enter is album name and track which to my way of thinking is pretty naff. Even for pop. Surely you'd want to select by pop group? True, they say you can use the album field for the name of the group but then where do you put the name of the album? Plain daft, if you ask me.
[Waits for someone to tell me that i've got it all wrong.....]
Roger, you need to look again (if you care :wink: ), there are apparently 10 searchable database fields, including artist, they just don't make it easy to find on the site.
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Mark..can you please point me in the direction where you found this. All i can find is..
Albums and tracks both have names up to 64 characters - including spaces. There is no formal structure for extra information like artist, genre, year, composer but you can put anything you want in the album and track names and edit them as many times as you want
The fact that it gets its' data from freedb..well, i just had to go and take a look at freedb and it's even worse than CDDB for classical. Also, looking at the display of the Brennan, they seem to append composer name in front of the 'album' which is pretty useless as you then have to wait and scroll (I guess to choose which Brandenburg). Wait ..it gets worse. I have, for example, 7 different versions of Mahlers' Resurrection Symphony. No way that i can see for being able to select which one easily.
I see from the brennan website that Gramophone thought it was the DBs but unfortunately the source for this does not appear to be in the Gramophone archive and so may have been taken out of context or the reviewer had his milk-bottle bottom glasses on that day.
As you may have gathered, lack of support for classical music in MP3 type players is one of my hobby-horses and I am not alone.
TrimTheKing":gc0tezsp said:Sorry Roger, I misread another piece of text, I was wrong about the 10 fields.
This link will give you the why's and wherefore's of what it can/can't do. And this is the user manual.
It looks like it can store what you want up to 64 chars, but you are at the mercy of the db software or cataloguing it yourself.
TrimTheKing":3h5dc6oe said:Roger
I haven't read your whole post so apologies if you reference this in there, but you need an iPod Touch. No scrolling there, you can see the whole detail on the screen, would that help you with your issue?
wizer":gddtj6lz said:Russell, how much research into alternative products did you do? I think you're going to outgrow this very fast. It's ancient technology.
It's like when the first blackberry came out, it looked like a psion organiser from the 80's. But people went crazy for them - for all of five minutes and then astute blackberry upgraded them to align with current technology.
I do hope you don't regret the decision to buy it.
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