MP3 players ...
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tamaranthWell, I now have a plethora.
Creative Labs win at customer service: within 12 hours of my original plea ("help Zen stone DOES NOT WERK drive not recognised o noes!") they sent me a long email full of diagnostic steps etc. I skipped to the end, downloaded new firmware and now have an empty but functional Zen Stone.
Tesco came up with the goods: £9.97, 1GB, own brand, kind of clunky. (Pic below cut.) Functionality not quite up to Zen standards (you can't fast-forward or pause/resume within a track) but perfectly adequate for walking-music. It does have one huge advantage, which is that it takes an old-fashioned battery. While this is less ecologically sound, it's much more convenient if one's away from laptop for extended periods (e.g. holidays, long flights, sailing trips).
Unfortunately at that price I cannot take it seriously, so this afternoon -- whilst listening to the 'on hold' music of British Gas, EDF, Lewisham Council, Reigate Council and the camera repair people, all occasionally interspersed with Real People -- I have given it a makeover.
Why, yes, those are stick-on diamante gems, guaranteed to give any object a touch of class. The zebra-print tape was a present from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Creative Labs win at customer service: within 12 hours of my original plea ("help Zen stone DOES NOT WERK drive not recognised o noes!") they sent me a long email full of diagnostic steps etc. I skipped to the end, downloaded new firmware and now have an empty but functional Zen Stone.
Tesco came up with the goods: £9.97, 1GB, own brand, kind of clunky. (Pic below cut.) Functionality not quite up to Zen standards (you can't fast-forward or pause/resume within a track) but perfectly adequate for walking-music. It does have one huge advantage, which is that it takes an old-fashioned battery. While this is less ecologically sound, it's much more convenient if one's away from laptop for extended periods (e.g. holidays, long flights, sailing trips).
Unfortunately at that price I cannot take it seriously, so this afternoon -- whilst listening to the 'on hold' music of British Gas, EDF, Lewisham Council, Reigate Council and the camera repair people, all occasionally interspersed with Real People -- I have given it a makeover.
Why, yes, those are stick-on diamante gems, guaranteed to give any object a touch of class. The zebra-print tape was a present from
ladymoonray who saw it and thought of me.
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Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 05:22 pm (UTC)Have you tried holding down the "skip forward" button? Probably, but I've found several players that use that as their "fast forward through this track" option ... and just wondered if the Tesco player was similar.
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Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2008 09:33 am (UTC)1. Play/pause/stop
2. Next track / volume +
3. Previous track / volume -
Not even a 'shuffle' function ... not that I miss it too much!
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Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2008 09:45 am (UTC)For a player that size I'd basically treat it as a a single playlist of upto 1Gb (which could be 15-20 albums, depending on MP3 size) and load it up either weekly or whenever I felt like it with a new set of tracks, and then mostly use it for the gym (as it's light and cheap!) and stick with the bigger player for walking/train journeys etc. (hmmm, haven't tried my iPod with the cassette adapter into the most recent car yet ... something to try sometime soon!)