Re: Hello all... and a few questions....

> I hope you will bear with my questions. I am thinking of buying a
> SliMP3 but I want to know more about it than is revealed on the
> company website.

Hi Hitesh. I can answer your questions, but I'm sure you'll also get some
replies from others SliMP3 owners on the list. Being a Slim Devices
employee, my opinions may be a little biased. :)

> Can it handle very large mp3 collections well? Is scrolling through
> the playlists acceptably fast or does it get sluggish as the number of
> files increase?

Yes, and this is one area where the SliMP3 excels compared to other
products. Some people are using it with collections in excess of 300GB. We
build indexes of the MP3 library in RAM, and this allows for extremely
quick browsing and searching.

The typical response time for the remote when scrolling up and down
through song listings is less than 20 milliseconds. Entering a very large
directory, or creating a playlist of several thousand items can sometimes
take a second or two, but for normal browsing there is no lag. On other
players, there is a noticeable lag even with the simplest functions,
because the device has to do a lot of work on its embedded processor. The
reason the SliMP3 is faster is because we take advantage of the speed of
your PC to drive the user interface, instead of trying to do everything in
the player.

> Any specs available on the actual audio performance, such as DAC
> resolution, sampling rates, any upsampling etc?  Does the mp3 decoder
> produce output at 24bit or higher resolution?

The output from the MPEG decoder is 16 bits per sample, at 44.1 (CD) or
48Khz (DAT), depending on the sampling rate of the original MP3. If you
want more technical information, you can find full specs on the DAC here:

http://www.cirrus.com/design/products/overview/detail.cfm?d=29

And the MPEG decoder here:

http://www.micronas.com/products/documentation/consumer/mas3507d/index.php

> Lastly, anyone done any comparisons with the Audiotron or RIO or the
> HP product (Sonic Blue?) ?

The SliMP3 is a fairly new product, so as yet there are no third party
comparisons of these three main contenders.  I don't have time to keep up
on all the competing products, but I know that there are a number of
people on this list who owned Audiotrons and Rios before purchasing the
SliMP3.


Sean


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