Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: Dermbrian on September 06, 2008, 03:20:29 pm
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Amazon link, 160gb version (http://www.amazon.com/Archos-160-Internet-Media-Tablet/dp/B001D089XQ/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1220728635&sr=8-4)
user's guide (http://www.archos.com/support/download/manuals/en_User_Manual_ARCHOS_5-7_v2.pdf)
It sounded perfect. A seven inch touch display on a device that can hold a large audio and video collection. Built in web browser and wifi.
The folder navigation system looks good and is friendly to music styles stored by genre/artist/album, like my library is. See p. 16.
Then why-oh-why don't they support a jukebox manner of queuing up songs??? The online manual says (p. 19):
“Queue” allows you to select a track to be played after the current one
is finished.
while a track is playing, switch to the browser window, select
a track to highlight it, then open it. This is your queued track,
which will be played after the current track.
you can only queue one track at a time.
Damn. I was all ready to start saving up, This would have been a really good heart of a jukebox cabinet. Imagine being able to just snap it into a cabinet at home and then popping it out if you wanted to carry it for the day.
How hard would it have been to support a true queue? argghhh.
Brian
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I bought an Archos 20 GB media player about 5-6 years ago. I was able to load RockBox on it. You might want to see if you can replace the *firmware* on the unit with Rockbox. Rockbox is an open source firmware for media players.
http://www.rockbox.org/
Good luck.