Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Short then long next/prev dir skip "feature" making current builds unusable.
LinusN:
--- Quote from: Dwyloc on August 22, 2006, 12:18:58 PM ---I think it may just be the combination of my player getting a bit old and the standard iRiver h140 case getting in the way of the joypad.
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Strange...
--- Quote ---I am right handed and am holding the player in my palm of my right hand with my thumb on the joypad and using my first finger to press the controls buttons right hand side of the player.
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Hehe, when I hold it in my palm, I can't bend my index finger enough to reach any of those buttons. Did you really mean you have it in your *palm*?
--- Quote ---For me at least it is a lot harder to deal with multi press combos that rely on timing then just hold down play and press the joypad in a direction.
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Fair enough. I repeat my question: how come you haven't discovered this problem until now? We've had this joystick combination since the beginning of this year. There must be something different about it now, like different timing or something like that.
Jillorious:
--- Quote from: LinusN on August 22, 2006, 12:32:33 PM ---I am right handed and am holding the player in my palm of my right hand with my thumb on the joypad and using my first finger to press the controls buttons right hand side of the player.
Hehe, when I hold it in my palm, I can't bend my index finger enough to reach any of those buttons. Did you really mean you have it in your *palm*?
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What he probably ment was that he's holding it ON his last 3 fingers, and he placed his index finger on the right side of the device [at least, thats the way I used to do it back then when I had a H140 (now I own a H340)] - give it a try, it shouldn't be that difficult.
But if you feel that your player isn't safe enough this way, you might try this way (which is more complicated, but gives you a better grip): keep the player in your palm with your thumb ON THE PLAY BUTTON, and control the joypad with your midle finger - which should be rapped around the player from the bottom (might be VERY difficult with small hands).
Mikerman:
--- Quote ---The general consensus (here at least) seem to be that the previous method of holding down play and pressing left or right was a lot easer to use. Plus it’s just as easy to work the player with one hand buy holding play with your first finger and controlling the joystick with your thumb.
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I find the 2-key combinations harder to use. If my player is in front of me on my desk or in the car, or on my belt, it is much harder, or dangerous, to do a 2-button manuever such as that here than a simple short + long click left/right.
snowgoon:
I believe seeking backwards is broken in long files since 31/07. Try this, play a long file until buffer wraps (twice to be sure), then seek backwards to a point that is no longer in the buffer. This broke for me with flac, mp3 and mpc (seek to start). I have written a patch and will submit it asap, eg. tomorrow.
Dwyloc:
--- Quote from: LinusN on August 22, 2006, 12:32:33 PM ---Fair enough. I repeat my question: how come you haven't discovered this problem until now? We've had this joystick combination since the beginning of this year. There must be something different about it now, like different timing or something like that.
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For me until very recently the new playback code had a tendance to lockup if I did too much seeking or skipping around a lot but thanks to all the hard work everyone did during the feature freeze that problem is now fixed.
So I tended to use an old build with the old playback code when ever I wanted to listen to audio books and do quite a lot of seeking. I guess if was just luck on my part that the builds with the new play back code also happened to have a feature I always wanted to disable broken.
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