Hello!
Just joined this forum, although I’ve been reading here for a while; it’s what convinced me to get a Clip in the first place! Great little product, but since there is opportunity for improvement, here are my suggestions:
1) “Shuffle Play” when “Play All Songs” engaged should be modified to:
a) when possible, not play songs by either the same album or artist back to back
b) have a “lookup table” so that previously played songs since the last database refresh are not played more than once, and that the << button allow us to go back to those songs vice spooling up the next random song. Spooling up the next random song is what the >> should do in that context. Also make it possible to download the table, including the order of songs played, to the computer - some of these shuffles are playlists I’d like to be able to repeat!
2) Turn off OLED display when Clip is attached to the computer, except when a button is pushed to activate the display timer. That way, battery charge status can be checked without burning out the screen unnecessarily.
3) Be able to display “time remaining” of a song, or album when “Album Mode” is selected.
4) I note that when both the artist name and song title are too long to fit on the screen, only the artist name scrolls. Make it that both scroll, or that hitting the “select” button changes which one scrolls.
5) I’d like to echo other folk’s requests, such as:
- gapless playback
- OGG, FLAC support
- better on-the-fly playlist creation
- File/folder browsing
- Pan/balance
- FFWD/REW with sound - and adjustable FFWD/REW speed
- Keep the tracks’ play count in the database/tags(?) - like Cowon, Creative, or Zune players
But overall, a superb product! I look forward to downloading FW 1.01.19 with all these features incorporated! ;-)
Also, for future products, it might be too much to ask if a Clip could be outfitted with swappable SD microchip capability, but I certainly hope that the improved audio quality of the Clip makes it’s way into ALL your players, and that they accommodate micro SD’s.
MG-bert