Hey, Steve. Keep the suggestions and issues coming. The occasional "I love
it!" will be welcome as well. ;-)
Let me respond to a couple of issues/questions you've raised.
1) .m4a on Apple Lossless. As I've had it explained to me, MPEG-4 is
essentially an encapsulation format, which internally contains a tag
indicating what the compression is, if any. Although the container is using
a standard format, the codec is an Apple codec not a publicly-specd one.
2) You can't go "right" to select an item in a list because of the
left/right quick navigation feature in lists. [For those without a
SoundBridge (yet), in lists of albums, artists, songs, etc. you can use the
left and right arrows on the remote to rapidly navigate the list. In a
sorted list, each press skips by the first letter of the item: A, B, C, etc.
In an un-sorted list, it goes by a percentage.]
3) Fixed volume output. This feature was slated for inclusion but didn't
make it. It will appear in a later release. However, if you turn the
volume all the way up to 100, you'll have the same effect. This leads me
to:
4) DTS isn't a supported iTunes format, although it's interesting to hear
that it works for you with your AirPort Express. It's already filed as an
enhancement request.
5) You mentioned that the first two times you tried to access a playlist, it
failed. Can you tell me a little more about your config? Wired/wireless,
number of items in the playlist, iTunes version, etc. Email me privately if
you prefer.
6) Play button to play the highlighted track. Here's why we didn't do this.
Let's say you play some music and then go navigating around in the menus to
add some songs to your playlist. Your phone rings, so you pause the music
and answer. You hang up and want to resume the music, so you hit Play with
a song selected in the UI. What should happen? In short, using Play this
way creates an ambiguity. In evaluating other products, I found this to be
a frustrating behavior for that reason.
You will notice, though, that we put some effort into organizing the menus.
So, "Play songs starting with <>" is the first item in the menu you get when
you press select with the highlight on a song. Thus, you can "double-click"
the song to start the list playing.
7) Play a list, shuffled. How about a menu option for "play songs shuffled"
that would just shuffle the song list, and start it with a random song?
Post by Steve MartinOK,
I love it, the kids love the visualizer. I think they can use it. It
is great to not need to access a laptop to run it as the Airport
Express does).
Other than the DTS and Apple Lossless shortcomings which I'm sure will
be corrected the other things are just minor little ui things.
If I reported everything that worked right, I'd be typing all day
instead of listening to my music ;-)
Can I say "I love it" again?
Still, I'm going to report all the little bugs as I come across them.
I'm sure the Roku folks appreciate that.
Oh, and by the way "I love it".
Post by Jeff CurtinDo you have any thing good to say. All you've done is b_____!
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A little UI gripe.
Probably from using a TiVo, but when I'm on a list I keep wanting to
press the right arrow to select the current item. Then I remember I
have to press select. If possible it would be nice if the right arrow
would act like select when browsing menus.
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