New Sansa Clip Zip is out! - Page 14

No dedicated volume buttons, kinda iffy dial wheel, proprietary USB port.

Never quoted myself before.

I have a Clip+ and considering Fuse to get longer battery life. Any reason not to go with the Fuse?
 

Oh man, that's unfortunate. I'm sorry to hear the news about your laptop's hard drive. :/

Even though I own a Macbook, I almost exclusively use Exact Audio Copy on Windows for the most accurate rips. However, on Mac OS X, I think XLD, xACT, and Rip are decent CD-rippers.

For converters, I use Foobar with LAME MP3 on Windows. On Mac OS X I use either iTunes LAME with a slightly older LAME MP3 encoder or Max.
 

Just a warning about ALAC files with the Clip Zip, the stock OS doesn't support ALAC (I've tried), and it ends up playing random noises. With Rockbox however, ALAC files play perfectly fine.

Thanks miceblue, no worries about the hard drive. Lesson learnt to always have a back up storage. Do I need to add the Lame MP3 decoder seperately to Foobar or is it pre-installed as standard components? Does Foobar decode FLAC? Correct me if I'm wrong that EAC files takes up more disk space than FLAC file or is it the WAV files that take up more space.

Lastly, does rockbox improves the SQ compared to the OF or is it's only a better ui that we are getting? Many thanks.

WAV takes up the most space. FLAC takes up more space than MP3 does, for sure. 

fb2k does play flac. 

In general rockbox shouldn't change the sound of the device. Potential exceptions are cowon devices with "jet audio" filters and EQs where it can be hard to understand where the "Don't monkey with my music" setting really lies. 

there might be other considerations, like gapless playback, but i don't pay enough attention to the sansa OF to know. I just install rockbox on principle. It's possible that i have one of the largest collections of rockboxed DAPs among non-rockbox-committers. 

Hi all.

long time rockbox user here (mostly on the clip+)

i do a lot of short voice nots via the recorder, and I'm noticing that with the zip (rockboxed of course)  i'm having trouble accessing the "files" folder which i use to access my recordings.

when i click on it, nothing happens.. and i mean nothing.. its as if i did not click on it.  i havent found a sure workaround to make it accessible but every once in a while i manage to get in there.

is this a known bug?

if not, any suggestions on a workaround?

thanks

Thanks miceblue, no worries about the hard drive. Lesson learnt to always have a back up storage. Do I need to add the Lame MP3 decoder seperately to Foobar or is it pre-installed as standard components? Does Foobar decode FLAC? Correct me if I'm wrong that EAC files takes up more disk space than FLAC file or is it the WAV files that take up more space.

Lastly, does rockbox improves the SQ compared to the OF or is it's only a better ui that we are getting? Many thanks.

Hi all.

long time rockbox user here (mostly on the clip+)

i do a lot of short voice nots via the recorder, and I'm noticing that with the zip (rockboxed of course)  i'm having trouble accessing the "files" folder which i use to access my recordings.

when i click on it, nothing happens.. and i mean nothing.. its as if i did not click on it.  i havent found a sure workaround to make it accessible but every once in a while i manage to get in there.

is this a known bug?

if not, any suggestions on a workaround?

thanks

there might be other considerations, like gapless playback, but i don't pay enough attention to the sansa OF to know. I just install rockbox on principle. It's possible that i have one of the largest collections of rockboxed DAPs among non-rockbox-committers. 

Yes, gapless playback, and especially the battery life improvement. The difference in battery life is particularly stunning if one uses FLAC files on a Sansa player.

Yes, you do need to locate the "lame.exe" file on your computer in order for the encoder to work properly. The latest versions can be downloaded from here. When you right-click on a track on Foobar, go to: Convert, convert, Output Format, MP3 (LAME), Edit, Convert, locate the "lame.exe" file.

I just tested the voice recording feature on Rockbox and it works perfectly fine for me. When doing voice recordings, make sure you scroll down to "Filename" and press the center select button so that it says: /R_MIC......

This should start the recording process and the indicated file size should be increasing. Also make sure your recording volume is loud enough to be heard. Press the hold/power button to stop recording.

Then when you plug-in your Clip Zip to your computer, that file should be in the root directory in WAV format. This can be opened via VLC or another media player that supports WAV files.

From my quick test, I don't think the microphone has enough gain to record a class lecture very well even with a 24.0 dB gain. I attempted to record some music playing through my desktop speakers and the end recording is pretty quiet (speakers were about 70cm away and playing at normal listening levels in a quiet environment).