First of all, and to echo what a few others have said, thank you Paul for opening this thread up and providing such great support for all these years - you truly make a difference and your great efforts are recognized and honestly appreciated.
I spent some good quality time today putting a list of things together - some are bugs/issues and some are improvements/enhancements and I also tried to make note of those that others have mentioned before either in this thread or the original DX220 thread.
Here is my list:
1) It would be most useful to add an alphabet based jump-to in all selection menus in addition to scrolling. Scrolling down through hundreds of artists, albums, or songs is not the quickest way to get to what one wants to listen to. Maybe have a horizontal scroll or multi-row list at the top of the screen which is based on the first character which when touched the window scrolls to the first in the list. Has been suggested by others as well – please, for the love of god, or whatever superior being you may or may not believe in, we need this!
2) When returning to a previous menu the default should always be to go to the exact position in that menu the user was at. In many cases I have found that returning to the previous menu goes to the top of the list and then I have to scroll down a long list to get back where I was. There are some areas where this does work as expected but we really need this to apply everywhere. This request has been posted by others as well.
3) The Artist information for all songs should be based on Album Artist property of the music file instead of Contributing Artists property – would avoid songs not displaying with the album & artist correctly.
4) For both the Mango and Android modes in the Artist menu add the option to list by Album or by Song. This request has been made by others as well.
5) Incorporate the Android Search capabilities in Mango mode.
6) There are some characters not displaying correctly - Ö & ö, Ü & ü, and Ÿ & ÿ which are in band names like Blue Öyster Cult, Mötley Crüe, and Queensrÿche (although they do display correctly in the Directory mode at the Folder level view and Queensrÿche appears correctly in Mango). What appears are some Chinese/Asian (please – no offense intended) looking characters and the following character is incorrect as well for Blue Öyster Cult & Mötley Crüe. A similar issue exists for the accented e in Céline Dion - another Chinese/Asian looking character is displayed.
7) In Mango mode Artist list some folders are displayed out of alphabetical order. Not sure exactly why – does not happen in Android mode.
8) Allow for multiple Custom EQ settings to be saved such that different adjustments for different ear/headphones, music types, AMP modules, etc can be stored separately. Maybe 6 is a good number to increase to. Some folks may not be aware that we can alter the 5 predefined settings (Classical, Pop, Dance, Rock, and Bass) as I found out from Paul back in the DX90 thread – just in case some may not know this.
9) For the Mango mode in the detailed track information view the bit rate is shown in bps but the label is listed as Kbps. Remove the K so the label is just bps. Displays correctly in Android mode since the value shown is actually the Kbps.
10) For Mango mode Genre menu add the options to list by Album or Song at the top level as well as once an Artist is selected. In Android mode the Genre only lists all Songs under a selected genre – should be able to see the list by Album or Artist as well.
11) For the Play Mode options – please add the option to play just the current song and stop.
12) Low resolution album art (looks like 200x200 pixels or less) in Android mode looks very fuzzy – looks better in Mango mode for some reason.
Hope these make sense to folks - let me know if I need to clarify or you have any questions.
So far I don't have any complaints on the great sound quality and I don't use streaming/online music content - strictly a rip from CD dinosaur (come on - I know a few others have admitted to being in this exclusive club as well!!!).
Best Regards,
Tim