Comments on: Too Zune https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7757 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:18:24 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7757 I loathe dealing with batteries, to the point that I don’t use a wireless mouse, keyboard or game controllers. I’d pay, say, five bucks more for a dockable Wiimote, I hate them so much. However, I’ve found that with my NetMD (yes, I owned a NetMD, and I knew exactly what I was getting into – I was strapped and there was a Rush Limbaugh emergency) and now with my Samsung, accomodating the single AA doesn’t bother me. I have a four-battery cradle, so I just carry a charged one in my pocket kit and every week or so when the player dies, that battery goes back into the rotation that night. Of course, the bigger, fancier players all have Li+ batteries, so that particular bit is a moot point unless you’re minimalist like me.

As far as capacity goes, that’s an area where the big (bad) names have always led. I’m not about to insult a fellow, more audiophilic technophile by trying to track down Samsung’s entire range for you, so my quick check might have missed some 4GB jewel. The info I’ve seen, starting with the second of those three reviews for craig, suggests that worthwhile Samsung flash players top out at a couple of 2GB models (watch out for first-party firmware upgrades that enable UMS). This ignores a couple of 4GB models with idiot dealbreaking flaws.

My tags were {rave}/{/rave} and {pedant}/{/pedant}, encompassing the entire text of my first comment and placed such that I didn’t look absolutely schizophrenic. Then the variable {product number} inside my “buttons” string.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7752 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:41:24 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7752 Fixed. Cheers for the links, and the recommendation Craig. That does actually look pretty much flawless, except that I’d sold myself on the idea of a flash player. The one you suggest, Jason, is great except for the 1GB and AA batteries – I actually prefer an internal one that charges from the mains. Messing around with rechargable AAs was the worst thing about my first digicam.

What were your humourous HTML tags? It ripped them out so hard I can’t even see them in the source code.

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7738 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:58:09 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7738 Also, I missed an underscore before Review in that ciao thing. Sorry, I was in a hurry and a copy-and-pasteless environment.

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7737 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:54:33 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7737 So we can’t have concise links. Well, that’s an improvement…though it seems an odd distinction for an anti-spamotron to make. Then again, you’re not getting comment spam so maybe all the spamming algorithms care about neat links. Huh. Considerate of them.

]]> By: Pentadact https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7732 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:07:15 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7732 I guess the link-detector anti-spamotron works its techno-magic before the auto-linkerlator hyper-textifies the word-strings.

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7730 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:53:57 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7730 Here are a long and two shorts of fairly high coherency – I’ve found that for electronics, ” buttons” is often a good filter. The commentbot rejects HREFs, so these aren’t links, sorry.

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Samsung_YEPP_YH_J70SB__Review_5541348
http://www.alkenmrs.com/mp3/samsung-mp3-player.html
http://www.dukebox.com/player/samsung-yhj70SB-20gb-digital-multimedia-mpeg4-player

]]> By: craigp https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7606 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:36:26 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7606 http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=24418

A 20GB Samsung (refurbished) MP3 player for under £100. I’m hunting around for a coherent review if anyone wants to help me with that.

This is the closest I’ve come so far:

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/portable_av/0,39033456,39093883p,00.htm

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7595 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:29:17 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7595 Hey! The overzealous HTML parser took away my humourous pretend HTML tags!

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7594 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:27:26 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7594 As with your other MP3 player post, I simply have to push Samsung’s YP-MT6Z forward for consideration. AA battery with long playtime, radio, line-in, mic, recording from all three, MP3, OGG, and UMS with absolutely no proprietary software. It’s slightly larger than my thumb and I got it for one hundred American dollars, a year ago. The only black spot for a serious enthusiast like you is the 1GB storage space, but for all I know they probably have an upsized model now. Samsung’s actually been doing some pretty cool things in a lot of areas lately.

You may want to capitalise Holocaust

]]> By: The_B https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7593 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:19:43 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7593 I may now have to buy the Anything But Zune domain now you’ve given me the idea. Although I would have nothing to put on it…

]]> By: craigp https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7585 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:42:47 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7585 They do seem obscenely expensive, though.

]]> By: craigp https://www.pentadact.com/2006-09-16-too-zune/#comment-7584 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:40:07 +0000 http://www.kfj.f2s.com/?p=114#comment-7584 Thanks for linking to Anything But iPod. I’ve been looking for just that sort of site. Cowons. Interesting.

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