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quote:Originally posted by Don

quote:Originally posted by Rejk
one feature that would be incredible would be the ability to have a small cable with a female regular USB A plug on it, and then be able to plug the other end into the neuros 3, and if you put a pen drive into the cable you could transfer things off of it.

That would have to be a separate socket on the Neuros with more hardware.  A USB device has to be either a host or client (generally the PC is the host and all else are clients).  To transfer files between 2 clients (ie camera and Neuros) you need an adapter with electronics in it that will appear to be a host to both sides and will somehow determine what files get copied where.

Lookup the USB On-The-Go (OTG) standard.

USB2 OTG is, or will be, available very soon.

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Track progress bar is controled by the songs db and the db gets its info during synchronization.

Basically, your tracks exhibiting this problem are messed up and you need to process them for (and fix any) errors.

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quote:Originally posted by kborn(at)neurosaudio.com

The problem way back was "chirping" during MyFi. How often does your music skip. When you reformat and rebuild your Neuros, does it have any effect?

The skipping seems to be when there's a lot of IO to purge/fill the cache.

I cannot and will not format and rebuild due to being limited to USB 1.1 connection... My USB 2.0 backpack died and I'm waiting for the backorder situation to be resolved.

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I read in some of the schematics or white paper documents that the Neuros already (at least theoretically) supports a remote transmitting in the less-than-FM-band frequency range... like less than 80 MHz.

Look into that before hacking through hardware.

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Solid state storage can't compete with hard drives. A few years time won't change that. Perhaps when hard drive manufacturers find a physical limitation that truly cannot be overcome, but it will be a long time before that happens.

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quote:Originally posted by notzippy

Personally I like the two piece design, it seems to allow expandability..

Internally I would like to see a second processor, then you can offload the decoding and FM encoding to the second processor while leaving the primary to handle the GUI - thus getting rid of the slugishness feel while playing... (Although coding this may be an interesting task ;>)

In fact the current Neuros I & II have two processors internally.
One is the main TI DSP and the other is a Xilinx FPGA.

I agree that I like the expandability and I think the size & weight are just fine.

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quote:Originally posted by Zap!

Quick question: Will I have to send in the head unit with the drive for an upgrade?  I'd really like to keep using my Neuros with the flash backpack.

I think that they want you to do so because they do a full health checkup on the head unit and if there have been any modifications/improvements to the hardware inside the head unit, they will bring your particular device up to date with the current hardware revision.

At least, that's what I understood.

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quote:Originally posted by RADAggie

I seriously doubt if Apple gives iPod users the ability to upgrade without buying an entire unit.

I can assure you that they do not.

You must buy a completely new unit to do any type of upgrade, unless of course it's the warranty voiding type of upgrade. []

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quote:Originally posted by secret|eating

Man this is just great!  It seems odd however that no one seems to be posting about their actual experiences with the Gamma Units, how they work in comparison with the old usb1.1 units.

Faster = Better

quote:Originally posted by secret|eating

I noticed that we have to send in the player with our backpack when upgrading.  Why is this?  I keep hearing that this is just a backapck upgrade not a main unit, hd, or battery upgrade.  So why send in the main unit then?  Is it because the Firmware is stored on the main unit?  If so will the usb2.0 upgrade render the 128M flash unit non-functional, since the usb2.0 firmware is not compatable with the usb1.1 backpacks?  Or have I misunderstood somthing regaurding Firmware?

They also take the time to inspect your head unit and update your device to any design changes (improvements) and also fix any issues they find. Basically the standard 1,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes Manufacturer's recommended maintenance. []

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quote:Originally posted by TheErk

I just bought a Neuros a month or so ago and I LOVE IT!  However, I've had songs start skipping and/or repeating parts of the tune (like a needle stuck on the old LP's) and one time I was able to bring the Neuros to my ear when this happened and it sounded like the "whirr, click, whirr, click" of a hard drive going bad.

Known issue. Related to caching. Your HD is most likely OK... The firmware is just getting confused and sending it on a digital wild goose chase.
http://open.neurosaudio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48

quote:Originally posted by TheErk

I'm planning on making the USB2.0 exchange.  Will that replace my hard drive with a new one or do I need to make a note when I send in my old unit to see have you guys check out the hard drive?

http://www.neurosfaq.com/fom-serve/cache/23.html

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quote:Originally posted by kronin

If that's the case, then at least in Linux you could mount that single file as a fat32 partition using the loopback device. Then you can read and write to it just like you read and write to the 128 MB Neuros.

I was thinking of that, too, but really you're right when you say this:

quote:Originally posted by kronin

It would be easier if the firmware backed the 128 MB flash up into a directory. Plus it would fix the problem where even if your 128 MB flash is only half full, the backup is still 128 MB. It would be more complicated from a firmware standpoint, though, as it wouldn't be able to do a bit-for-bit copy.

Also any non-music files would need to be moved over. Can't forget those.

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quote:Originally posted by demonbane

I was actually working on a feature for NDBM that would allow you to store 128 MB playlists on the Neuros for a quick-sync before OS/2 was released. This involved copying the songs over each time, however. Now with the flash backup option, this goes out the window.

However, I have been thinking about going in a direction similar to what you had mentioned. I need to look more at what kind of a backup is actually done on the HD backpack, but if it is, as I hope, the contents of the flash drive dumped into a directory on the Neuros, then it would be quite possible.

Sounds like a nice feature to me, however I think that the flash backup simply does a bit-for-bit copy of the RAM contents to a single file on the HD.

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quote:Originally posted by sheki(at)earthlink.net

When will 'official' units be available for sale, and at what price?

TBA []

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