next firmware wishlist?

pinkamoree

idk, i decided i'd make one 'cause i didn't see one.

1. the stuttering that happens sometimes at the end of songs
2. PLEASE PLEASE make it possible to adjust scrolling speed, and if possible, make the scrolling like the SL where the speed depends on how fast or how slow you slide your finger across the pad. i have like 300 songs on mine and it takes FOREVER to get to the bottom

that's all i can think of.

nice2know_u

1. Agreed.
2. What? That kind of scrolling only works for e-books, and not songs. If you push the <<| or the |>> button it will take you to the center-bottom-top of the list! Try it!

pinkamoree

omg, awesome. i never knew that. thank you!

Traps

1.
Better cover art support. (At least it should be independent from id3 tag album names, or have a way to deal with album names that contain special characters reserved by the filesystem)

2.
A play mode where after the currently playing album ends, the player automatically moves to the next album.

3.
Video at 25 fps.

4.
Avoid video-audio out of sync problems, by dropping frames when needed and/or re-syncing playback at the next keyframe.

5.
Library should not update when no new songs were added.

6.
Problem with library automatically updating when the M6 is turned on while locked.

7.
Again, fix the end of song stuttering.

8.
Fix the "slow distortion at the middle of song" bug that happens very rarely (I only heard it once so far).. or was this already fixed?

9.
Seamless playback

10.
Fix the library limit of 128 tracks per artist and max of 2024 files. (or has it already been fixed?)

11.
Change the way how the M6 cannot be used while connected to the PC.

12.
Just like pinkamoree, I would like to see the new kind of scroll (currently only for e-books) applied to all the other scroll environments.

13.
Add a way to adjust screen contrast and saturation.

stonecoldd

man we always make these wishlists for the upcoming firmware and its always the same things mentioned every time around...damn u meizu..listen to us for a change...that is if u wanna have the best dap out there...

felixperro

Yes, these are annoying. Just when I was showing somebody my new M6SL, we had to wait a minute or so for library to sync because I had the unit on "hold" before turning on. It was kind of an anticlimactic demo.

While #6 makes no sense as to why it even happens, #5 may not be possible unless the M6 can do some sort of checksum for the library rather than scanning the ID3 tags of each song (which I assume is happening).

The library update should at the very least be and option in the user settings to be manual or automatic.

Rockbox seems to have gotten this right and it's open-source.

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Speeder

1: Yea, it's a bit of a gap in there, but are you sure it's one of the worst problems to ask a fix for?
2: Go to the artist list, locate the album you wish to play, press the play button.
3: It's a limitation of the M6's hardware. What it cannot do, it cannot do. Only some software optimizations took it to 20FPS as well.
4: True, true...
5: Yes, it shouldn't however in a removable disk drive functionality, how on earth could the software detect you've put any music files on? Or deleted any? Felixperro, what checksum on the playlist? The M6 just would wanna decide if it has to be updated as the current is probably already old, there is nothing to compare it with. Unless reindexing. My guess is that manual playlist updating was taken out cuz of techsupports and returns that it doesn't read files from the less experienced...
6: Just check the lock or don't use it :D (it always just bothered me really when I used it)
7: Yea, true, but to say everything as well, I'm quite sure that the stuttering MP3 songs aren't fully right. If you re-encode the songs with a high quality encoder, they don't stutter.
8: Well, if you've only seen that bug once, then I believe it would be better if Meizu would spend their time on fixing other bugs instead.
9: Yea, I guess many people need that. On the other hand you should take a look at some posts here, someone had an idea to put all the song parts into one and showing the current song with a timed LRC subtitle file.
10: Nope it hasn't been.
11: If it's connected to the PC, you can use the PC to listen to songs, no?
12: Well... previous-next buttons And don't forget you can hold your hand over the pad under the top and above the bottom button, that scrolls quite fast too.
13: Well, the SL's screen is just the way it's like I guess

Hope this contains some useful things

P.S.: felixperro, Rockbox would be a too big project! Noone wants to do it. Also, Meizu deliberately made the decision to not give a manual update function.

drunk_evil_666

roelandb

fix the file limit, its the most important one for me:
(since i have a 8GB model i am planning to put a lot more files on my player.)

there are actually 2 problems that NEED FIXED FAST:
- 2048 files total limit
- 128 songs per artist limit

Seelan

All I want is last.fm support, or some kind of logfile so I could code a sync tool. But it seems like meizu is not interested in this feature.