M3 navigation and file organization question!

strangepanda · 10-15-2004, 23:24

Recently i've decided to move up to an mp3 player from my mp3/cd player, and i've got my eyes on an ipod or an m3. But i can't seem to find just exactly how music is organized on an m3. And using the remote, is it slow to get through albums and tracks? These little things are the only problems that are keeping me from getting an m3, so any help would be great!

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oh! and does anyone have any idea which consumer stores in america stock cowon players? it'd be great if i could pick one up this weekend if that's at all possible!

booth99 · 10-15-2004, 23:30

It all depends on how you have it organized on your computer. I have mine set up like this.
Genre/Artist/Album/Track.
I can get to any of my 3000 tracks on my M3 in about 10 seconds.

strangepanda · 10-15-2004, 23:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by booth99

It all depends on how you have it organized on your computer. I have mine set up like this.
Genre/Artist/Album/Track.
I can get to any of my 3000 tracks on my M3 in about 10 seconds.

oh, so you can create as many folders as you'd like, naming them what you'd like?

booth99 · 10-15-2004, 23:35

You create the folders on your computer and drag & drop them to the M3. I don't know if there is a limit to folder amounts. You can name them anything you wish.

Rev. Nathan · 10-16-2004, 00:45

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Originally Posted by booth99

You create the folders on your computer and drag & drop them to the M3. I don't know if there is a limit to folder amounts. You can name them anything you wish.

Correct. If you keep your music oganized by album like in say, your My Music folder, it's as easy as dragging and dropping all of those into the iaudio.

The scrolling from artist to artist is as fast as your can twiddle your tumbs; those if you hold the scroll it goes mega-fast; leaving to time to read the first letter of the artist/folder. It works, IMO.

Ivegottheskill · 10-16-2004, 02:40

I think the scrolling speed is settable as well, but I haven't tried changing mine from 4x (there are options up to 64x)

BTW, I wish the U2 came in 256GB Rev. Nathan

strangepanda · 10-16-2004, 10:58

awesome...thx for the answers! but i'm still wondering if any stores in the us carry iaudio products, i have a huge trip coming up and i want to carry my music with me, so if i ordered from a website it wouldn't be here in time. If anybody knows of any please let me know!

Koolshen · 10-16-2004, 11:18

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Originally Posted by strangepanda

oh, so you can create as many folders as you'd like, naming them what you'd like?

Isn't there is a limitation about files and folders? I thought 2,000 folders and 10,000 songs for the 20GB and 5,000 folders and 20,000 songs for the 40GB M3 was the limit. Or has this problem already been solved in one of the last firmware updates?

addz · 10-16-2004, 11:25

ya correct from what i have seen,
and cant you just order a device online??, insted of looking around for it. May save you some time.

andy · 10-16-2004, 11:27

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Originally Posted by Koolshen

Isn't there is a limitation about files and folders? I thought 2,000 folders and 10,000 songs for the 20GB and 5,000 folders and 20,000 songs for the 40GB M3 was the limit. Or has this problem already been solved in one of the last firmware updates?

i think there's some kind of limit. on dapreview i read about an 80gb-xcleff which wouldn't start up with about 12.000 files on the hd, but i can't say, if it would be like that on the iaudio, because i don't have one yet

strangepanda · 10-16-2004, 12:39

i'm sure there's some kind of limitation, but it's probably beyond what anybody would ever need. I was just wondering if it was in stores because i have a trip coming up. That's ok though.

lollypork · 10-16-2004, 14:43

Another issue is that the M3 can't show more than 99 playlists, which was quite annoying - until I set up my music to \ARTIST\ALBUM\TRACK# - TITLE. The player then plays them in the correct order every time without playlists.

I would like the playlist limitation to dissappear, though.

MadGuy · 10-16-2004, 14:58

Which firmware do you have on your device, lollypork?

Buddy · 10-17-2004, 01:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by booth99

It all depends on how you have it organized on your computer. I have mine set up like this.
Genre/Artist/Album/Track.
I can get to any of my 3000 tracks on my M3 in about 10 seconds.

With tools like mediamonkey or tdt it absolutely doesn´t matter how u have organised the files on ur computer, as long as the tag information is complete (Track, Artist, Number, Year at least).

Because u can say to those tools that they have to synchronize the files and, if there is something on ur music-folder which is not on the player, the programm copies it. There u can say how to copy. For me, the best solution was the following:

Organisation via TDT on M3:
\Music\@\albumArtist\album (year)\track-number title.ext
........
\Music\A\albumArtist\album (year)\track-number title.ext
.......
\Music\Z\albumArtist\album (year)\track-number title.ext

@ stands for groups with numbers at he beginning, like 2pac i. e.

TDT (which was orinally build for the iRiver iHP-series) could be found at http://tdt.sourceforge.net/tdt.htm

Regards,

Gunter

EllenIaudio · 10-17-2004, 13:32

I've got a shop for you in the States: shopsuntec.com. It is a webshop, however they deliver very fast. My M3 arrived at my home in Europe (!) 5 days after I paid them. I think delivery within the States will be even faster.

10-15-2004, 23:30	#2
booth99 Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 87	It all depends on how you have it organized on your computer. I have mine set up like this. Genre/Artist/Album/Track. I can get to any of my 3000 tracks on my M3 in about 10 seconds. __________________ iAudio M3 40GB, CW 300 256MB, Creative Zen Touch Sennheiser HD 202, HD 212, PX 200, MX 400 Koss KSC 50, KSC 10

10-15-2004, 23:35	#4
booth99 Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 87	You create the folders on your computer and drag & drop them to the M3. I don't know if there is a limit to folder amounts. You can name them anything you wish. __________________ iAudio M3 40GB, CW 300 256MB, Creative Zen Touch Sennheiser HD 202, HD 212, PX 200, MX 400 Koss KSC 50, KSC 10

10-16-2004, 14:58	#13
MadGuy Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Posts: 107	Which firmware do you have on your device, lollypork? __________________ \"...And I saw a Beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads...\"

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EllenIaudio Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 214	I've got a shop for you in the States: shopsuntec.com. It is a webshop, however they deliver very fast. My M3 arrived at my home in Europe (!) 5 days after I paid them. I think delivery within the States will be even faster. __________________ Happy with an M3 20 GB

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10-15-2004, 23:24	#1
strangepanda Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6	Recently i've decided to move up to an mp3 player from my mp3/cd player, and i've got my eyes on an ipod or an m3. But i can't seem to find just exactly how music is organized on an m3. And using the remote, is it slow to get through albums and tracks? These little things are the only problems that are keeping me from getting an m3, so any help would be great! edit: oh! and does anyone have any idea which consumer stores in america stock cowon players? it'd be great if i could pick one up this weekend if that's at all possible!

10-16-2004, 02:40	#6
Ivegottheskill Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 105	I think the scrolling speed is settable as well, but I haven't tried changing mine from 4x (there are options up to 64x) BTW, I wish the U2 came in 256GB Rev. Nathan

10-16-2004, 10:58	#7
strangepanda Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6	awesome...thx for the answers! but i'm still wondering if any stores in the us carry iaudio products, i have a huge trip coming up and i want to carry my music with me, so if i ordered from a website it wouldn't be here in time. If anybody knows of any please let me know!

10-16-2004, 11:25	#9
addz Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: UK, London Posts: 430	ya correct from what i have seen, and cant you just order a device online??, insted of looking around for it. May save you some time.

10-16-2004, 12:39	#11
strangepanda Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 6	i'm sure there's some kind of limitation, but it's probably beyond what anybody would ever need. I was just wondering if it was in stores because i have a trip coming up. That's ok though.

10-16-2004, 14:43	#12
lollypork Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 14	Another issue is that the M3 can't show more than 99 playlists, which was quite annoying - until I set up my music to \ARTIST\ALBUM\TRACK# - TITLE. The player then plays them in the correct order every time without playlists. I would like the playlist limitation to dissappear, though.