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Topic author: arkla_arkla
Subject: "FM Radio"
Posted on: 08/26/2005 05:29:46 AM
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I'm surely presenting myself as a total Neuros Hater here, and well, it's not true, I do use it for music on the move, mp3/wma/ogg with headphones, yet i'm back to post again today, after yesterday I tried to listen to the Radio on a train crossing the city.
I got Nothing, right across the whole FM 88-108 range. Not a single station would come in. Any crappy other radio is totally saturated here.
Believe me, there is no lack of seriously powerful FM in this city, and all I could get was some vague sounds breaking in over the fuzz by doing acrobatics with the headphone lead.

So I'm posting again.. because I'm just sat amazed looking at these five buttons on the left side of my Nueros. (What are they FOR????)
Why put five dedicated buttons on this thing, when the radio doesn't even work? I had kinda forgotten about this, but also having radio was one of the reasons I made the buying decision on this thing.
So yesterday, that nasty feeling came back, that I had when I received the Nueros and realised I had been done. Not by saying that it's an mp3 player and it isn't, it is.
But by the marketing buzz that it is an mp3 player+
It isn't.

Oh, one time I did actually manage to momentarily get an FM station in stereo, I think. But I've never received anything that would be possible to listen to while on the move.

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Reply author: Zithromax
Replied on: 08/28/2005 7:45:02 PM
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I haven't had an experience that bad. The Neuros reception is poor compared to a $10 walkman you might buy at Wal-Mart, but I can usually receive reception outside faily well. I lose almost all stations when I enter work, though. Sometimes you can improve reception by wrapping the headphone cord around the neuros a couple times.

By the way, you can use those preset buttons on audio files as well. They are good for use with audiobook or radio shows.

Reply author: Sottilde
Replied on: 08/28/2005 7:58:08 PM
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You could always grab a small antenna, too... it should work for recieving, but is disconnected for transmitting due to FCC regulations...

------Order #9082 :D

Reply author: MCBAZ
Replied on: 08/28/2005 10:31:55 PM
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Originally posted by Zithromax
By the way, you can use those preset buttons on audio files as well. They are good for use with audiobook or radio shows.

The only problem with using the radio buttons for audio files is that the buttons no longer work as a fm preset. The preset button should work as an fm preset while in radio mode and work as a bookmark to an audio file in the other mode.

Reply author: Zithromax
Replied on: 08/29/2005 8:26:34 PM
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Hmm, that sounds like a bugzilla suggestion to me. I'd look for that suggestion, but I don't think it would do any good to vote for it anyway. Neuros audio is no longer actively supporting the device.

Reply author: MCBAZ
Replied on: 08/29/2005 8:38:36 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Zithromax

Hmm, that sounds like a bugzilla suggestion to me. I'd look for that suggestion, but I don't think it would do any good to vote for it anyway. Neuros audio is no longer actively supporting the device.

I suggested this just over a year ago on Bugzilla. Here is the link to the bug.

http://bugzilla.neurosaudio.com/show_bug.cgi?id=252

Nothing was ever done about it. It was not even commented on by someone at Neuros. A "This is a good suggestion but we simply do not have the resources at this time to do this." would have been preferable to no comment at all.

Reply author: Zithromax
Replied on: 09/01/2005 11:36:20 AM
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What a coincidence! I'm the only person voting for that bug. I probably voted for it about the time it was posted. I don't even remember doing that.

It's funny how some of the easiest things to implement were never done or in some cases even attempted because the much more difficult things were more desireable. And now the much more difficult ones may never be done. We probably could have had many of these simpler functions.

Reply author: arkla_arkla
Replied on: 09/06/2005 09:02:39 AM
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Now, THERE's a great argument for keeping the open-source development alive. Maybe when the Neuros II has been forgotten about in a few years, somebody might slip the source code out the door..

Reply author: Don
Replied on: 09/18/2005 09:20:30 AM
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I prefer having the preset buttons the way they are, so 1 will put me in a given position on a song, while another will switch to radio at a certain frequency. I generally have some that are "reserved" for radio and some for file play.

-Don

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