iRiver announces planned firmware upgrades to H series!

**coreman** · #1 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 06:12 AM

iRiver announced their schedule for firmware upgrades. OTF delete, OTF playlists and gapless playback made the grade and are planned by June (30th probably). No other mention was made about the other issues..hopefully they will also fix the shuffle and DB manager!

Well, I think we finally embarassed them into posting something...too bad it took so long!

yoshi · #2 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 06:50 AM

wow!!!!!! now that's progress

**seadzz** · #3 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 06:55 AM

I'm sure some of these inprovements were ment to be included in the H300 launch but the pressure here and over at the iRzoo was getting to them.

sdz

ManchesterUnited4Life · #4 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 07:37 AM

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hopefully they will also fix the shuffle

Coreman, look closely;

Functions When

On-the-fly File Delete
May
Real Shuffle Mode

On-the-fly Playlist
June
Gapless Playback

So you really will have the features you want bu June ... even if it IS the 30th, lol ...

Am az amazed and happy as the rest of you guys, but one thing made me chuckle when reading the statement;

Quote:

We strive daily to oversatisfy your expectations

lmao ...

**seadzz** · #5 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 08:03 AM

From my inside sources at iRiver they are only making the "Real Shuffle Mode" to make the coreman guy stop complaining.....no one else on the planet thinks the existing one is bad anyway.

I also have learned the OTF delete function really means that each H series owner will be sent a magnet to wipe against the HD to delete tacks.

Hopefully when they get these chaff firmware upgrades out of the way they will get back on track with lyrics support and the lava lamp LCD remote function so many of us wanted.

sdz

**coreman** · #6 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 08:10 AM

Just found that iRiver made a typo...instead of OTF Delete. they actually developed the WTF Delete...of course using seadzz's Ronco Electric Super Duper Deluxe MagnoWiper magnet...

I don't have a clue how I missed that "Real Random Shuffle"...must have been because I was in shock!

BUT at least they are admitting that the current shuffle isn't "Real Random"....

**sweetspot** · #7 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 09:32 AM

Here's what I posted over at Head-Fi (because the site was down ....AGAIN.

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Not to sound like a deek or anything, but I'll believe it when I see it. You'll all have to forgive me if I seem a bit suspicious or untrusting when it comes to what Iriver has to say. Looking at their web site now, it's just the biggest goof and mess of a site.

I now know what Austonia was complaining about when he said he couldn't find the firmware updates. The site has changed a little bit and it's totally unorganized. No news section, no updates section, and information strewn about like a mentally challenged person put it together.

As far as the post about the updates goes, I wouldn't put it past some person to fake a post by iriver and make such a joke. On top of that, IF this really is genuine, I'm STILL not getting my panties all moist. Let's see if the features are even implamented correctly. Yes...trust me...there's a way to screw it up.

On a positive note, if it's real, it's about time. But there's still NO excuse for their behavior..what makes NO sense to me is, if you're a company who is constantly getting flak for things, and your customers are ALWAYS complaining, WHY, if you know that you're going to address the issues, would you wait until the last minute to finally say that you're taking action ? I would think that the right thing to do, would be to make sure that the people never get to the point of where they're constantly arguing and complaining.

So...w/e. Good luck to all of us.

*jumping inside of self waiting for gapless*

Nick114 · #8 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 09:46 AM

firmware sounds good - lets just hope it is

LeftfieldTilt · #9 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 11:40 AM

Wahoo, roll on may/june ok prob july/august well maybe sept.

Please dont fail us Iriver

**elwood** · #10 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by seadzz

Hopefully when they get these chaff firmware upgrades out of the way they will get back on track with lyrics support and the lava lamp LCD remote function so many of us wanted.

And a decent screensaver.

Sod the battery life, we *need* 'Flying Windows' implemented with iRiver logos instead of windows symbols.

It would look even better with the backlight flashing on and off all the time in screensaver mode.

y0da · #11 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 12:01 PM

in screensaver mode a hard house remix of catch the digital flow starts playing in your headphones

pomegranate · #12 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 01:46 PM

Well, if it is true (with respect to SS's musings), I will be well chuffed. Not too bothered about OTF deleting, more-or-less satisified with shuffle as it is, but OTF playlists and gapless playback (! hardly any other players have this!) will make me cream my pants....so long as they're implemented properly and not a pain in the ass to use...
re skepticism... could it be that they've developed these features for the *new flagship* H300 (or whatever its called) and its simple for them to carry them over to the iHP firmware?

Next step: autosyncing/DB updater software!

**jeff** · #13 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 01:54 PM

I have reason to believe the post is accurate and true. I'm trying to confirm and will hopefully have an answer by tomorrow sometime. In the mean time if you look here you see that there is a link to the post. Unless someone hacked the iRiver site the only way a link gets posted here is if iRiver puts it there.

**sweetspot** · #14 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 02:15 PM

Alright...my doubts have subsided. I'm taking the more optimistic road now. As long as the gapless implamentation is done correctly, I'm a happy camper. Wow. Gapless !!!!

**jeff** · #15 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 02:17 PM

What happened to your last avatar Sweet? I truly was in love!!!!

**sweetspot** · #16 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 02:55 PM

Hehe..don't worry, she'll be back. She's actually a friend of mine. Haven't spoken to her in a while, since she moved to California...She sent me a bunch of pics like that..some a bit more provocative. Ones that I can't really post.

I'm actually hoping that she'll wander by the site and see her pic one day and get freaked out ! Though I doubt she will, she's not a tech geek. But I'm sure she'd be flattered by your comment as well as my actual posting of her pics.

Besides, who doesn't love Christopher Walken ?

chibishin · #17 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 05:27 PM

Very true, Christopher Walken is 'the man'. "I've got a fever...and the only cure is more COWBELL!" or whatever, I'm sure I'm misquoting it hehe.

And all I've gotta say is it's about damned time. This could be bad though...I think it's one of the signs of the apocalypse. ^_^;;

**sweetspot** · #18 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 05:55 PM

It's "prescription" and you can just clicky on my siggy....

profingersk8er · #19 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 06:41 PM

WOW! that's some really good news!!!

damnnnn i cant wait

chibishin · #20 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Sweet Spot

It's "prescription" and you can just clicky on my siggy....

Oh yeah....Dude was that there the entire time!? haha...I can't believe I didn't notice that ^_^;;

**coreman** · #21 (**permalink**) April 7th, 2004, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jeff

What happened to your last avatar Sweet? I truly was in love!!!!

Yeah...count me in on that as well! She is a beautiful woman and that was a great pic! Bring them all back!

Oh yeah, about the firmware thing...hope they include gapless MP3 with the ogg or I am going to be mad

,my whole collection is MP3 (Karma has gapless MP3)....