anthemfield
02-07-2007, 20:47
Have had my 2 gig D2 for a couple of weeks now and all-in-all I'm impressed. However, there are two things that would make the experience even more enjoyable.
First, when you bring up the music browser (or the vid or pic browser too) you can only leave the screen untouched for a few seconds before it automatically reverts back to the "now playing" screen. Sometimes right in the middle of browsing I'll forget where it was I wanted to go, or I'll get a few levels deep and forget the name of the song I'm looking for, or I'll be otherwise interupted...and there's nothing worse than being forced back to the "now playing" screen only to have to start the whole process over again (please realize I have fingers like tree stumps).
This is a bit of a two-way street because where I dislike the way it automatically reverts from the browser to the "now playing" screen, I do like the way it will automatically make the menu lists disappear if you leave them untouched for a few seconds. I just long for the X5 and A2 days of being able to open my browser, dig a little, scratch my head, dig a litte more, remove the lint from belly-button, and finish digging, all without feeling like I'm racing/fighting the UI clock.
Second - and this has already been mentioned in a few other threads - I wish there was better integration between the stuff you've got saved in the on-board memory and the stuff on your SD card. It is a chore having to back all the way out of one to get all the way down into the other. Again, a two-way street because while not being able to view all your files together is crappy, it is nice to know exactly which files are on the SD card and which are not. You would think there is a way to list them together and yet have some kind of designation for files on the SD card.
Nuff said.
First, when you bring up the music browser (or the vid or pic browser too) you can only leave the screen untouched for a few seconds before it automatically reverts back to the "now playing" screen. Sometimes right in the middle of browsing I'll forget where it was I wanted to go, or I'll get a few levels deep and forget the name of the song I'm looking for, or I'll be otherwise interupted...and there's nothing worse than being forced back to the "now playing" screen only to have to start the whole process over again (please realize I have fingers like tree stumps).
This is a bit of a two-way street because where I dislike the way it automatically reverts from the browser to the "now playing" screen, I do like the way it will automatically make the menu lists disappear if you leave them untouched for a few seconds. I just long for the X5 and A2 days of being able to open my browser, dig a little, scratch my head, dig a litte more, remove the lint from belly-button, and finish digging, all without feeling like I'm racing/fighting the UI clock.
Second - and this has already been mentioned in a few other threads - I wish there was better integration between the stuff you've got saved in the on-board memory and the stuff on your SD card. It is a chore having to back all the way out of one to get all the way down into the other. Again, a two-way street because while not being able to view all your files together is crappy, it is nice to know exactly which files are on the SD card and which are not. You would think there is a way to list them together and yet have some kind of designation for files on the SD card.
Nuff said.