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« Reply #120 on: April 02, 2004, 05:15:06 PM » |
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I encode all my files with quality setting 5 (oggenc -q 5 *.wav), and have not had the skips when I had the "old" firmware with my original unit - I'll try out the newer firmware to see if that resolves it - the good news is that to my ear, it sounds like the phonic quality of the Neuros has improved with the 2.12.xxx firmware I have now!
The chirps that were common with Oggs in the older firmwares are now skips in the 2.x versions. I haven't noticed many with q5 over MyFi, but I'd imagine if a particular passage ended up with a high bitrate encoding (it is VBR) then it might skip, especially if other things are going on (disk read, navigation, etc.). |
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« Reply #121 on: April 03, 2004, 12:36:52 PM » |
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I forgot to mention that I have seen other problems in addition to USB 2.0 connectivity:
1. I only have Ogg files, and with this unit, some of the songs skip (like listening to a skipping CD) in various places
2. The unit froze yesterday when I pressed play on one of my playlists (I had to press the up direction and play at the same time to reset)
3. One of my playlists starts playing the 2nd song in the list (it is completely skipping the first song)
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What quality are you encoding your ogg files at? I have both q5 and q6 oggs on my USB 2 unit with firmware 2.13 with no noticable skips or freezes.
After upgrading the firmware to 2.13, at least on the first song I noticed skips, the skips have disappeared! I'll have to check my others songs that exhibited the skips, but at least this is a good sign! [  ] |
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« Reply #122 on: April 06, 2004, 09:53:57 AM » |
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I'm officially jealous of you folks who got your units back in less than 2 weeks. I wanna my neuros! [:p]
-- OVER the underpass! UNDER the overpass! Around the FUTURE and BEYOND REPAIR!!
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-- OVER the underpass! UNDER the overpass! Around the FUTURE and BEYOND REPAIR!!
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« Reply #123 on: April 06, 2004, 02:30:31 PM » |
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I'm jealous too! Me wants my preccccioousss >=] It'd have been 2 weeks for me Thursday this week. Unfortunately I'm leaving the country a week on Wednesday so I might have to do without my precious until late July if it's not done by next Monday/Tuesday morning =((. It took 14 hours for UPS to ship mine 15 miles away to DI hehe Anyway, I'm sure they have been bombarded with many more units recently so things may be slowing down. Keep up the good work DI! |
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« Reply #124 on: April 06, 2004, 03:53:47 PM » |
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i sent mine in on the 3/18/04 and still have not recived it yet what is taking so long
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« Reply #125 on: April 06, 2004, 04:04:37 PM » |
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Well, they did say 3-4 weeks, so we still have time to wait until that limit is over. It's not really taking so long, they just have lots to get through and they are taking care to make sure the units are in good shape before sending them back. Patience, grasshopper, I too find it difficult to go without my daily Neuros fix - but think of the benefit for the wait!  |
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« Reply #126 on: April 07, 2004, 12:02:52 AM » |
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This is why I'm glad I waited a month or so before I'm going to send mine in, get the rush over first, then get mine back in no time at all (or so the plan goes).
That and the fact that I need my Neruos for a trip to Atlanta next week for the FIRST Robotics Championships, if anyone knows what I'm talking about.
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« Reply #127 on: April 07, 2004, 01:13:23 PM » |
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This is why I'm glad I waited a month or so before I'm going to send mine in, get the rush over first, then get mine back in no time at all (or so the plan goes).
That and the fact that I need my Neruos for a trip to Atlanta next week for the FIRST Robotics Championships, if anyone knows what I'm talking about.
Ah yes, I was on the FIRST Robotics team at my schoool two years ago when I was still in Highschool. During the competition our robot was tied for 1st place then near the end, a gear got worn out and our robot could only move in circles ... so we ended up 22nd [:p] |
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« Reply #128 on: April 08, 2004, 01:11:49 PM » |
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Ah yes, I was on the FIRST Robotics team at my schoool two years ago when I was still in Highschool. During the competition our robot was tied for 1st place then near the end, a gear got worn out and our robot could only move in circles ... so we ended up 22nd [:p]
We've had an eventful year, with team politics and what . Still did manage to be finalist (we lost the last round of the competition) at SBPLI (my local competition, on Long Island), even though our robot didn't do much except drive back and forth... I realized though, that for Atlanta, I'm going to need something to keep me entertained while I wait for my entire team to get through security checkpoints and such, so I'm holding on to my Neuros till I get back. Hopefully when I send my Neuros in, it'll come back within two or three weeks, just in time for my birthday... :p |
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« Reply #129 on: April 08, 2004, 01:54:08 PM » |
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Been playing around with Beta Firmware 2.13. Seems to work a LOT better than the last one. I had a couple of weird crashes right after receiving my Neuros back from the USB2 upgrade (it had 2.12), but those seem to have disappeared now. Good work folks!
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« Reply #130 on: April 11, 2004, 08:00:07 PM » |
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rramsey, the bundle and the 128MB version have always had 128MB. The "brains" as you say in the HD version (not bundle) has 64MB. Buying a 128MB Neuros, a car adapter, and a 20GB backpack has always been equivalent to a bundle (maybe not always in price though).
-Jeff
Jeff, Took awhile to find the quotes from JoeBorn, but I know now I didn't have a faulty memory. http://www.neurosaudio.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43&SearchTerms;=difference,backpackIn this thread, discussing the memory differences between buying a bundle (128 megs of memory) and buying a flash unit and a hard drive (64 megs) Joe Born said: "we're not putting 128 megs on the main player when shipped with a HD unit, since our initial feedback is that very few folks will be interested in this functionality. We do intend to support that down the road." Later: " The flash unit is exactly the same as the 20GB unit except for memory." This is also in the faq: http://www.neurosaudio.com/support/NeurosProductsfaq.asp#a3The Neuros product store also has the 20 gig backpack model listed with 64 megs of memory: http://www.neurosaudio.com/store/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=DigitalInnovationsCatalog&category;%5Fname=Neuros+Players&product;%5Fid=4010201Could someone from Neuros confirm/clarify that this is no longer the case, that if I buy a 128 meg neuros and a 40 gig usb 2.0 backback that this is the equivalent of buying a bundle? Since the 128 meg units are sold out at the moment, what are the chances of seeing them upgraded to 256 soon? insert funny sig here |
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« Reply #131 on: April 11, 2004, 09:51:37 PM » |
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Those quotes are basically what I said myself...
In your earlier post you were mixing up the bundle and the HD unit
Neuros Bundle = 128MB Neuros (and everything included with it.) Plus a hard drive backpack and a car adapter.
Neuros HD unit = 64MB Neuros face with HD backpack in one box
So if you were to buy a bundle you get three items in the box. A Neuros box containing a 128MB Neuros exactly the same as if you bought it by itself, you get another box or envelope containing the HD backpack, and also a car adapter.
This means that a bundle is simply a 128MB plus car adapter and any HD backpack of your choice. I hope that clears it up.
As for 256MB... when the Neuros gets back in stock it will probably still be 128MB at least for a while.
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« Reply #132 on: April 12, 2004, 02:44:47 PM » |
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So, I had to replace the hard drive in my Neuros as a result of dropping it on a concrete floor; as a result, I figured I'd put in a much larger drive (80 GB) as long as I was going to have to buy a new drive anyway. Question: can I still get the USB 2.0 upgrade for free? (I bought mine back in June or July of 2003.) Since I replaced it with a larger drive, I just want to make sure that (a) the DI people aren't going to get pissy and (b) that I'm going to get the same drive back. [ ] I'm perfectly willing to put the now-defunct drive back in the unit before sending it in, but I figure DI is going to want a working drive in order to test the unit. (Personally, I'd much rather they just sent me an empty USB 2.0 backpack and take a CC # to give me incentive to send back the unused USB 1.0 backpack, and I'll transfer the drive and battery myself; but it sounds like they don't want to do this.) Cheers, Kyle |
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« Reply #133 on: April 12, 2004, 02:51:45 PM » |
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You can email support about the upgrade question (sending it in) since your drive assuming you are using the latest firmware should work if moved from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 without any problems.
-Jeff
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« Reply #134 on: April 13, 2004, 12:55:52 PM » |
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Neuros received my order four weeks ago. It's not ready yet. All they said was soon. Be prepared for a longer than four week wait.[V]
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