Mark-key idea

I know version 1.1 is going to have a way to "mark" songs with a key on the remote... what I want is a way to tell it what I plan on doing with that song. This could be done by a customizable table of mark commands. This table could be modified on the computer & synchronized with the empeg, so that when you press the "mark" key, it will display a list of the "mark-actions" that can be selected.
For example:
[(mark) (mark)] = "Re-Rip"
[(mark) (0)] = "Add to Favorites"
[(mark) (1)] = "Delete"
[(mark) (2)] = (undefined1)
[(mark) (3)] = (undefined2)
...
[(mark) (9)] = (undefined8)

where [(key1) (key2)] =
means
key1 -> first key press
key2 -> second key press
action -> user defined mark-action to select.

So, in the above case, if you press the "mark" key, it will display:

Re-Rip | Add to Favorites | Delete

with "Re-Rip" selected as default.

What do you think?

Mk2/40GB/Blue

I dig it. But I would figure that I would "mark" so few tracks in a day or week that I would remember why I marked them when I run emplode again. But I do like the "add to favorites" idea. I had only thought of marking to delete or re-encode.

12gig Mk. II BLUE
Detroit, MI USA
www.PfeifferBeer.com

I tend to have longer empeg intervals... I'll do a lot of ripping & organizing, then I'll synchronize... I'll listen to my music for about a month, then I'll do some more work on the empeg database.

During the month of listening, I find a LOT of MP3s I want to re-encode & a LOT of MP3s that I want to add to some kind of special list (Various "Favorites" type playlists).

During such a long time period, it will be difficult to remember if I wanted to "add to favorites" or "re-rip"... I probably would end up skimming through each song to see if I wanted to rerip it or not.

-Jeremy

Mk2/40GB/Blue

I find this as a great Idea, I wonder if I could be implemented in 1.1 before it goes beta so the alpha testers could try it out. I always come across something I notice that for some reason is cut off, burping, etc. I notice that I find a lot more corrupt and bad songs listening in the car then when listening at my computer, most likely due to the much more attention I have on the music in the car then on the computer.

Later!
Damien

Damien Heiser
tnl

I think I read there's been a code-freeze on new 1.1 features?

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Hmm... maybe 1.11?

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