iRiver H10. About to buy one, have a few q's

[jackwanders]

Ok, just to clear things up for anyone else who might find the info useful:

I have my H10 now (it rocks :D), and here's how song orders works:

In the 'Music' Section, where you can browse songs by artist, album, genre, etc., songs are ordered alphabetically by the 'Song Name' tag.

In the 'Browser' Section, where you browse through the folder hierarchy, songs are ordered alphabetically by filename.

So, if your song filenames have the track number in front (which most people do now), then they will show up in the correct track order in the 'Browser' view. If you want them to show up correctly in the 'Music' view, you have to alter the ID3 tags to include the track number at the start of the 'Song name'.

Other than that, this is one sweet little player. I was truly surprised by the quality of the FM reception, and by the overall sound quality. I've made arguments that only a freaky audiophile would be able to tell the difference between an iPod and an iRiver (given the same file and same headphones), but the first thing out of my mouth when I played the first song was, 'wow'.

[ZZOOzzoo]

:woot: Any chance you will post a review on Neowin?

Congrats!

[.fury]

What version firmware do you have?

[jackwanders]

:woot:  Any chance you will post a review on Neowin?

Congrats!

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Already started. It'll be up this weekend sometime.

[jackwanders]

What version firmware do you have?

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Right now, v1.00 is all the US customers have. v1.10 for the UK version came out about two weeks ago, and iRiver says they're working "frantically" on the US firmware update to fix these issues, so we're keeping our fingers crossed for a firmware update by month's end.

[.fury]

OK. I put V1.10 on mine a few days back and it fixed a few problems like the screen not turning off properly etc, but no fix for the alphabetical tracks yet. I seem to be having trouble with the database on it, the other day it became completely corrupt and wouldnt show any songs at all, I had to use browser mode :s Only fix was to delete the database from iRiver+. Oh, and random tracks are still disappearing from the menu. So let's hope what they're working on will be released soon!

[jazzvortex]

This was extremely useful to me, as this issue has been driving me crazy - I really think the H10 is so cool, an since I prefer it to the Ipod for my own personal reasons, not dsaying one is better than the other - but a radio, more space, and I think its just a cool looking - but this fundamental inability to play an album in order is a show stopper for me. I realize that a lot of folks don't seem to care what order they get their music in, or they are OK with the inconvieience of creating everything as a play list, but as a musucian I fine this lack of attention to the order of an album to be very depressing - I am just an old fart I guess, but I remember when an album really meant somthing. For that matter, if you are listening to classical (not my main thing), your MP3s will be per movement of a particular piece, so it really matters. ENOUGH of my PREMABLE being said (this is my first post) - here is my humble thanks for your clear and accurate explainantion - I did not even bother to check in Browser mode. The instruction for this unit are a joke, so forgive me for asking what may seem like obvious questions on basic funtionality, but I do not understand the featue of Browser mode - seems like I clicked on one song and it played the whole album (yes - in order, I renamed my file names as per the Iriver site recomendation, pretty easy in Musicmatch) - played the whole album - this is whatI wanted, but what if you jsut want one song? I hope they fix the software so that you can do this from the Album view as this would make it easier to navigate the system by album - duh. Meanwhile, your assitqance may be just enough to keep me from retruning this otherwise perfect little gem. :D

Ok, just to clear things up for anyone else who might find the info useful:

I have my H10 now (it rocks :D), and here's how song orders works:

In the 'Music' Section, where you can browse songs by artist, album, genre, etc., songs are ordered alphabetically by the 'Song Name' tag.

In the 'Browser' Section, where you browse through the folder hierarchy, songs are ordered alphabetically by filename.

So, if your song filenames have the track number in front (which most people do now), then they will show up in the correct track order in the 'Browser' view.  If you want them to show up correctly in the 'Music' view, you have to alter the ID3 tags to include the track number at the start of the 'Song name'.

Other than that, this is one sweet little player.  I was truly surprised by the quality of the FM reception, and by the overall sound quality.  I've made arguments that only a freaky audiophile would be able to tell the difference between an iPod and an iRiver (given the same file and same headphones), but the first thing out of my mouth when I played the first song was, 'wow'.

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[Zeni]

Ow shhh  :D

get back on topic  :p

no you are right I'm brainwashed by iPod ...

@smapdi you are richt Creative was the first one. sorry for the mistake. But you have to admit that almost every mp3 player is based on the iPod.

Just look at the name iPod iRiver, iRiver even copied the name ! (I know that apple hasn't a patent on the "i")

[Make peace no war, and get back on topic]

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Aaaaactually, iRiver has been around for longer than Apple has been making the iPod, iRiver used to OEM the RioVolt line of MP3 CD Players back in the day, and that was a considerable while before the 1G iPod was released. :)