Skip Length and Scan Speed

[Sirocco]

What are the options for these 2 properties, anybody know?

[GSV3MiaC]

Skip length is either 'track' or 2,3,4,5,10,15,20,30s.

Scan speed is 1,2,3,5,10,30s

[Dominic]

what is scan speed? I've never changed that setting but I assume it was to do with navigating menus

[b0ng0]

I believe scan speed is how fast it scans through a track or video when you hold down the forward or back button

[GSV3MiaC]

It's how fast it scrolls back/forward through a track (or movie or whatever) per unit time (presumably not per second, else '1' makes no sense!).

[Dominic]

Ah, got it, I got skip track and scan speed muddled, thank's for the clarification

[Sirocco]

For scan speed, do you mean 30X? You have 30s.

The fine gradations for skip length seem to be pointless. Are you sure there's no option for something in the range 5-10 minutes? And what does the "track" option do, go to the end of the track so the user can then rewind from there (which would be easier than FF to something toward the end of a very long audio file). That would be very tivo-like. Is my understand of this correct?

[GSV3MiaC]

Nope, the SCAN speed is calibrated in s. Like I said, it can't be 'X' because 1x makes no sense as a 'fast scan', does it. Seems to me that the repeat rate is at least 5 per second, so 30s is 150x, maybe more - at 1s it looks closer to 10x even.

The 'skip' does what it says on the box - each 'peck' moves you forward or back by a track, or 30s, or whatever you have it set to.

[Sirocco]

On other models I've seen scan speeds of 5X, 16X, 32X, which means 5 times normal, 16 times normal, etc, where the letter "X" is the convention to indicate this, since it's used to indicate a multiple of some other number. I wonder if the Koreans use a different convention. When you say it's calibrated in "s", what is "s"?

Is the skip length in seconds? It seems that the increments would be over a broader range, in bigger increments, such as 5,10,30,60,120. Although I suppose anything that approximates this is better than nothing.[smile]

[GSV3MiaC]

s is seconds.

[SnoopyGirl]

I record some radio talk shows on my computer (yes, I am a geek.) When I play them, the 30 second skip is real useful for buzzing past the commercials. I currently have a X5L, but I am considering getting this flash player. To skip through them now, I just push the joystick to the right a few times and, zap, I blow through all the ads. How hard is it to operate the skip on the iAudio 7? I'll have to look at the screen every time, right? Can I tap 4 times to skip ahead 2 minutes, for example?

[Sirocco]

I received my iAudio 7 yesterday. Tap the right arrow of the slider (a surprisingly light touch) to jump ahead 30 seconds. Hold the arrow down (again, very lightly is all that's necessary) and you hear a pretty quick clicking sound, each click for every 30 seconds skipped. What's nice is that the longer you hold down the left arrow, this has an accelerating effect, so you can skip over 30 minutes in a matter of 8 seconds, about, which is great for moving around in a long audio file. the iAudio 7 has bookmarks too, you can assign the book mark feature to the "red dot" and make a bookmark instantly, with one "button press", although going to a previously bookmarked location requires a few button pushes, and managing bookmarks can be a project, moreso than with the Samsung YP-T8, in which bookmarks are very easily managed (although the YP-t8 is only 1 gb, this is good for about 20 hours of audio at 96 kbps).

One thing I don't like about the iAudio 7 is the text is so small, it's a challenge to read. Although the black background creates high contrast, the screen size is just over an inch diagonally. I'm beginning to think that a screen needs to be at least 2 inches diagonally, for any purposes. My inclination is to break down and just get an ipod nano, which has very readable text, at least.

[GSV3MiaC]

I record some radio talk shows on my computer (yes, I am a geek.) When I play them, the 30 second skip is real useful for buzzing past the commercials. I currently have a X5L, but I am considering getting this flash player. To skip through them now, I just push the joystick to the right a few times and, zap, I blow through all the ads. How hard is it to operate the skip on the iAudio 7? I'll have to look at the screen every time, right? Can I tap 4 times to skip ahead 2 minutes, for example?

You can peck the screen 4 times to skip forward 4 lots of 30 seconds, if you have 'skip' set to 30s. If you want to use 'scan' you'd probably want to watch the screen. If you set 'skip' to 30s you can actually use the +/- buttons at the top when the player is in 'locked' mode in your pocket, IFF you set that up in the general options (firmware 1.13 amd later) to use those keys for forward/back rather than volume.