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Originally Posted by intogamer92
i like drag and drop =] pretty simple and you dont need to run an external application
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The core of the discussion is not if you are able to "drag and drop" as you can do that with both methods of transfering files (transfer protocols), but rather "how does the system
see the device", either as a media device or a generic storage device, which for the sake of the discussion are MTP and MSC [UMS] respectively. However, at the [common] user level this poses no "threat" as many people will simply only see that before their players were a L:\ drive and now they refer to it as Clix:\ (from the Explorer's location bar). At any rate, many users will find the second more "convenient" and the first a bit more "cumbersome", however many users have also grown used to the "old" method. At the user level the functionality is virtually the same (provided they use the device within the boundaries it was thought to be used [MTP-compliant media library managers, and players] or through the shell [Explorer]). The point of the discussion is not the idea behind the method used, but the
implementation, i.e how iriver and Microsoft have implemented this way of transfering files from your PC to your Clix/[other-MTP-device] and viceversa. At the moment, this last part is what's "flawed", and the reason why a lot of people are asking to be able to have the device "switch" from one to the other, or even make it so that you could set this directly into the firmware's settings (how would you like your device to "talk" to your computer, using MTP or MSC). Thus far the consensus is to have the ability to switch between the two.