Why is it that every MP3 player is riddled with idiosyncracies? My Creative Zen Touch is great (I hate Apple for their hatred of bloggers and control-freak zeal, so I would never buy an iPod), but I wish I could fast forward within tracks. Having to wait through Bruce Shaprio (who is great) in order to re-listen to a story is a slight chore. Oh well, nothing’s perfect.

BTW, I know you can load the Linux kernel on iPods – could the same thing be possible with yours? There’s no shartage of player hacks out there. Also, I think the volume issue is very common in MP3 players. I read a Wired story a while back about amplifiers you can buy specifically for MP3 players – I’ll try to find it for you.

I have all the LNL podcasts going back to May on my MP3 player. How geeky of me, on so many levels…

Ben, I think some particular software makers have for so loong gotten away with selling broken products that they promise to fix later, that computer users are half-accustomed to finding glitches in new techietoys.

I’m really fairly annoyed with the iRiver. I’m giving serious thought to returning it and picking up one of these no-name MP3/MPEG-4 video players at Aldi. Only $29 more than the iRiver, no hacking required… and works with Win98SE, I’m told.

Ben,
Proudly geeky (or should that be Gladys) with you 🙂

I gave up on the flaming iRiver. We’ll see what the no-namer looks like in a couple of days.

“iRiver H10 to work as advertised with Win XP” – Really? I’m a proud owner of the iRiver H10 5gig (Rosie) and I’ve had no problems. I too am boycotted Steve Jobs and his shitty internal radio-less iPods.

Mushie, true! XP would not recognise the H10 (this one was a 20Gb, but I don’t think that matters). I had to use “Emergency Connection” mode by holding down the “o” key while powering up while the thing was connected to the USB port.

iRiver specifies that XP SP1 with Windows Media Player 10 should be able to connect to the player. No go, at least for me. I even upgraded XP to SP2 to see if that was the problem. Didn’t fix it.

I spent almost 14 days frittering around with the H10/20Gb… that was enough effort. Let’s hope the next player I try is a bit more cooperative.

It’s really quite annoying when the cheaper iRiver T30 is so much easier to use. It’s not like iRiver can’t do it correctly.

I’m guessing that you didn’t have the same probs I did. What version of XP do you have?

I am with Suki and yourself about ‘Radio National’, perhaps.

Sorry to change the subject, slightly. We have a fantastic national broadcaster that is danger of becoming,’Christian speak’,Australia. Have listened as this major, secular, asset has been watered down,slowly.

Used as an experiment for podcasting, but suspect, it is being quietly castrated because most of the people who work there, are a little too bright and the station has far too much reach around the country.

Joe, dunno what you mean. Of all the things I have not seen taking over RN, it’s religion. Yes, there’s several programs which are primarily occupied with religion (i.e. The Spirit Of Things), but no individual religion appears to have undue influence over RN material. You get as much Buddhism as Anglicanism on RN.

Point me to what you mean, please.

Yeah – I’m not clear on your point either Joe.

And Suki – thanks mate, geek on!

More clearly then. The a.b.c board ,is being slowly stacked,in my opinion. When you get Dr Peter Jensen ,Anglican archbishop of Sydney, sermonising over four nights, for four weeks under, the “Big Ideas” banner you start to wonder.

joe, I see your point, but that’s more the exception than the rule. There’s little doubt that morons like Janet Albrechtson will have an influence- and it can’t be good. Why on earth would you put someone in charge of an organisation who has long advocated dismantling said organisation?

Mind you, the ABC listenership is not entirely powerless. The last time they really tried to stuff it up, me & 20,000 other Friends Of The ABC were on the steps of the Opera House, raising holy hell. Worked, as I recall.

Set Advenced/Study_Mode to 180sec – fast clicks FF make 180sec jumps.
😛

“I would like the FF to jump in 5 sec increments when the button is held for 5 sec”

krzy, thanks for the note… but the H10 went back to the shop. 2 weeks screwing around with it was enough. I’ve replaced it with an off-brand pocket multimedia player… which works fine with Win98. It also has a progressive fast-forward function. Wheeee-hoo!

Have a look at this thread, they’ve got a lot of good development going on over there, including the ability to change the background images.
http://www.misticriver.net/showthread.php?t=29095
Dave

Thanks for the tip, Dave. I’ve already returned my H10 to the shop for a refund due to difficulties described above, but perhaps other H10 owners will find those tricks handy.