I went through a stressful day and thought I’d relax by listening to an audiobook. Alas, the Clip starting playing track 23, instead of track 1. I tried using mp3tag. I tried using Winamp. I also checked the properties of each file directly. No mistake, nowhere I could see. I’ve spent more than one hour trying to solve the problem, ending even more stressed out than I was when I started. All of that because the Clip is unable to simply read folders and file names in alphabetical order.
I keep having problems with mp3 tags. Very often, it is a problem between tag versions, and sometimes it is a problem with no reason I can fathom. Usually, I can solve such problems with mp3tag, if only by erasing then renaming all the tags, but it always costs me time, from a little to an awful lot. To solve problems that wouldn’t even exist with a folder view.
The Clip has great sound. It also looks great. It is also, alas, the most annoying mp3 player I’ve ever used.
@promisedplanet wrote:
Whether SanDisk made the right decision about folder support (if that’s what they actually did), well, who knows. But coming to the conclusion that “Sandisk programmers ■■■■ big time” seems kind of bizarre. Especially given how amazingly responsive they are to users’ requests in this forum
… except in regards to the one feature most requested by users in this forum: a folder view.
Most changes to the firmware have been correcting problems born from the use of mp3 tags; problems that wouldn’t exist with a folder view. While tag users are numerous enough to offer them a tag view, people who are happy using just folders are, I believe, even more numerous. I once asked my college students about how they listened to their mp3 files; all of them had a player, but NONE of them (not one out of forty-two) knew what a tag was. All of them, though, knew what a folder was, so when I read from someone in this thread that many computer novices may use WMP or iTune but not know what a folder is… well, I bet the contrary is more often true.
Message Edited by Sinocelt on 11-09-2008 05:04 AM