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Hey, I just got my 442, and I really like it, but I do have a problem seeing the names of the songs I have, because they're in the common "Artist Name - Song Name" format and most of the time I end up, for example, seeing something like this on my song list:

Some Random Arti~
Some Random Arti~
Some Random Arti~
Some Random Arti~

actually I think it cuts off sooner than that, but you get the idea.

Sometimes a file has ID3 information, but I can't count on this all the time, and I have the same problems with videos too... my video list looks like this :

Some Show Episod~
Some Show Episod~
Some Show Episod~
Some Show Episod~

Since Neuros seems to be adding features with each firmware release, I'd like to request a scrolling file name be added somewhere in the selections menu, or just on the highlighted file itself.

I mean even my old little iRiver iftp 300 scrolled the filename that you selected, so surely it can't be that hard to implement.

Thanks

Edit:Found the same request on the Wiki... this feature would really help.

Yeah, the iPod is pretty and nice to look at, but having to use iTunes with it was a fatal flaw for me.  And yeah it is an iPod "Video" but it's way too picky about what it will and won't play.  It's borderline false advertising, in my opinion.

Cool, thanks for the info.  I think I'll order one.

I've been shopping around for a good PMP and first tried the iPod Video and returned it after about 5 hours.  I hated having to use iTunes.  And how you had to convert all files you wanted to play.  And how playing video on it required tedious and long re-encoding, and how the software that did that was a seperate 25$ ( I did find a free 3rd party program that would do it... slowly).  And how you could copy mp3s directly to it's hard drive, but it wouldn't recognize them.  That's crap.

My main question about this player is how you copy music and video to it from your PC.  It said in the product description that there is no software required, but maybe that means using it with other hardware, so I wanted a specific answer here.

Do I copy and paste files to it like I would any USB hard drive, and then it can play those files?

Is there any file managment software to deal with?

Will it use my pre-existing directory structure, or will it pull an iPod and say "no, screw you, I'm using the ID3 tags, your carefully organised folders be damned!"

Thanks