[Anaxilus]

Actually, iTunes on a Mac is incredibly efficient.  The difference between iTunes on Macs and PCs is night and day.  I bet Jobs did that intentionally to screw people on PCs.  Thank goodness iTunes is worse than its competitors.  I find other problems w/ iTunes unrelated to performance though.  Ugh, I feel dirty after defending an Apple product, I need to take another shower and scrub down.  Yuck!  

 

[killz23]

But I've always thought that iTunes is a great music management system... As I'm using a Mac, that's a given isn't it?
 
Any other "Media-Monkey" that's Mac-compatible?

 

[swanlee]

This player is simply just a drag and drop player, you do not need to use any music management software for it it just shows up like a usb drive on your pc.

 

[nickosiris]

Following on from my earlier post and the recent discussion: I am a lifelong Mac user, and wouldn't dream of having a Windows PC at home. Also wouldn't dream of ever using iTunes. Don't like it, don't need it.
 
My music management tool? Finder!

 

[killz23]

Wow, a Mac user without iTunes? For me, every song is played through iTunes..It's hard not to be associated with iTunes at this point isn't it? 
 
I'm familiar with S:Flo2's type of interface -- drag and drop. But I'd like to find something similar to iTunes without being a memory hog..

 

[nickosiris]

 
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Wow, a Mac user without iTunes? For me, every song is played through iTunes..It's hard not to be associated with iTunes at this point isn't it? 
 
I'm familiar with S:Flo2's type of interface -- drag and drop. But I'd like to find something similar to iTunes without being a memory hog..

 
No, it's not hard at all! Free yourself from the tyrrany of iTunes! Do it today!

 

 

[gustavoskn]

Just bought FA Eterna Rev.1. Let's see if it synergizes well with S:flo2

 

[Young Spade]

Quote:

Wow, a Mac user without iTunes? For me, every song is played through iTunes..It's hard not to be associated with iTunes at this point isn't it? 
 
I'm familiar with S:Flo2's type of interface -- drag and drop. But I'd like to find something similar to iTunes without being a memory hog..

I've been using media monkey; I think it's alright; great for playing music and synching files. I'd look at Foobar too although I don't know how the library integration is on it. 
 

 

[killz23]

Well, for a Mac user, Media Monkey is a no-go simply because they haven't released an official version for a Mac. I'd hate to use Parallels to load up Media Monkey though -- music sounds bad this way for some reason..
 
Well, I'd like to stop using iTunes as well, but so far haven't found any worthy successor to this otherwise effective music management system..

 

[swanlee]

Quote:

Well, for a Mac user, Media Monkey is a no-go simply because they haven't released an official version for a Mac. I'd hate to use Parallels to load up Media Monkey though -- music sounds bad this way for some reason..
 
Well, I'd like to stop using iTunes as well, but so far haven't found any worthy successor to this otherwise effective music management system..

Seriously you can  just drag and drop the music it really is not that big of a pain to just treat the sflo:2 as a usb drive

 

[Anaxilus]

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Seriously you can  just drag and drop the music it really is not that big of a pain to just treat the sflo:2 as a usb drive

I don't think he's going to be too happy w/ the manual folder and playlist management.  If you are then for the love of god please just throw the files on the card.  

 

[Poimandres]

Has anyone performed a rmaa with the new 2.3 firmware or with the new 2.3 firmware and the ad8620 chip?  I would really like to see those as I am looking for a new player.  Thanks in advance.

 

[headfone]

I'm sure this issue has been noted several times ...but that's why we have DIY FW hackers...
 
I don't want (never use) any portable player's native file-mgmt options. I create file-containing folders (directories) on my PC, and upload them onto all my DAPs/PMPs. COWON and Apple are both brands that I have used and offer GAPLESS playback of files in the folders I upload.
 
When I rec'd my Teclast/MP4Nation DAP, I uploaded Directory-based folders (which contain mostly FLAC files). I am hugely bothered by Teclast/MP4Nation DAP's apparent lack of GAPLESS playback.  Despite repeated requests, I don't think this DAP can still do GAPLESS.
 
Questions for Teclast/MP4Nation FW programmers: Is adding GAPLESS to this DAP difficult? I'm guessing the native BIOS (or OS) does not support it -- or is it a hardware (chip) issue?

 

[swanlee]

Quote:

I'm sure this issue has been noted several times ...but that's why we have DIY FW hackers...
 
I don't want (never use) any portable player's native file-mgmt options. I create file-containing folders (directories) on my PC, and upload them onto all my DAPs/PMPs. COWON and Apple are both brands that I have used and offer GAPLESS playback of files in the folders I upload.
 
When I rec'd my Teclast/MP4Nation DAP, I uploaded Directory-based folders (which contain mostly FLAC files). I am hugely bothered by Teclast/MP4Nation DAP's apparent lack of GAPLESS playback.  Despite repeated requests, I don't think this DAP can still do GAPLESS.
 
Questions for Teclast/MP4Nation FW programmers: Is adding GAPLESS to this DAP difficult? I'm guessing the native BIOS (or OS) does not support it -- or is it a hardware (chip) issue?

 
 
Before gapless is added I would simply like proper ID tag reading so I do not have to use the browse by directory option. I want gapless to but with this player the gap is not that distracting and there are ALOT of players out that currently do not do gapless. The ID tag issue is a much bigger problem that almost all players get right the first time.
 

 

[Somnambulist]

I think someone somewhere said one of the main problems with this stuff is that the Rockchip used in the S:Flo2 has virtually no documentation or stuff available for it that would help. Obviously people have made front-end themes for the player but I haven't seen anyone go deeper than that. At a guess the Chinese Teclast forums might have a better answer, but the language is alien to me haha.