Media Player Redux

I said in my previous post that I would post some additional thoughts about my new media player after a couple of weeks of usage. Overall, the experience has been very good – the player produces good quality music, is nicely built, and does what I want it to. There are a few annoyances, though:

• The Music – Hold – FM slider. The button itself feels very flimsy, which in turn makes it very difficult to operate. Even worse is that because it is a 3 stage slider, it’s very easy to slide it past hold, and onto FM, requiring that you then slide it back to Music, and then hit play. It would be better to have 2 sliders, 1 for Hold on and off, and the other for Music or FM selection. Having the sliders more robust, and more flush to the edge of the player, would be a good move too.
• Ordering – I’ve not quite sussed out how it orders the files on the player. I _think_ it’s alphanumeric, which can be a PITA if the CDDB entry for a particular album doesn’t include track numbers.
• Big files – I mostly use the player for listening to LUGRadio, which is typically about 80-90 minutes long. It would be nice if I could pause playing it, skip to listening to some music, and then return to listening to LUGRadio at the place I left off. Sadly, I don’t think this is possible (I’m not sure if any player works like this?)

Mostly, though, I can’t moan

mrBen