Re: First Impressions

> The screen is really borderline for me to read it from
> my couch.  It's plenty bright but the letters are
> *just* a little small.  I'm probably not the first one
> to offer this particular bit of insight.

Hmmm... I dunno what to say. These displays are the top of the line,
unless you want an LED display at $3 per *character*. There's not really
much I can do here. You should see the tiny LCD that our competitor is
using - comfortable reading distance is no more than 3'.

> The UI is pretty intuitive and makes navigation easy.
> But what the non-primary buttons do on the remote is
> sometimes confusing and non-obvious (and
> undocumented). As others have noted, scanning takes
> forever and that's one thing I'll be looking to change
> in *my* source tree pretty soon.

Check out the file README.REMOTE. We're working on the scanning - see
slimp3-dev archives for the last couple of weeks.

> Sound *quality* seems very good, but I see a
> *significant* volume difference between playing a CD
> and playing an MP3 of said CD through the SliMP3.  I
> am ripping with the latest CDex (1.40beta9) using the
> LAME encoder at high-ish bit rates (>=160kbps) and
> without normalizing.  My decibel meter quantifies the
> difference at about 5db. I've looked at the archives
> and found one other person with this issue who thought
> there was something wrong with his MP3s, but I can't
> see what I'm doing wrong.

You should turn on normalizing. The SliMP3's output range is the same as
standard consumer gear. If it's noticeably lower than your CD player, it's
your MP3 files.

> I've got some ideas that I'd like to work on wrt to
> what is on the display when you're not playing MP3s -
> ie give options other than the time and make it easy
> to customize.
> Anyhow, thanks to Slim Devices for a cool product!  I
> hope I can contribute a little code in the not too
> distant future.

Please join the slimp3-dev group, and try out the current development
version of the server!  Thanks for your feedback.

Sean


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