"I wish I knew then what I know now" - tips from Zen Xtra Veterans to Newb
I've just purchased a 60 GB Zen Xtra and very much looking forward to building a library... I've been perusing the forum here and was hoping that some Zen Xtra veterans might offer their top 5 tips to a newbie
While this is my first Mp3 player, I've been downloading and burning concerts to CDs for years, so I'm sure I'll be able to figure out the basics on my own... really looking for those tips that "they don't tell you about" that often make a big difference in a positi've experience
FYI - for what its worth, the majority of what I'll be putting on my Zen Xtra will be free and legal concerts available at www.archi've.org -
While it seems like many of these shows are "tagged" with song title, artist and date of show, it seems that many simply retain only the file and track number designation
for example, the 5th track from a 2-25-990 Grateful Dead concert will probably appear as gd90-02-25dt05_vbr.mp3
So rather than "renaming" each track I think I'm just going to have to accept the fact that the name of the song itself will not appear - and I can deal with that as I expect to have my player set to a random shuffle for the most part anyway, or will otherwise listen to any concert straight through
So if there are any other helpfulf hints from Zen Xtra vets who have a lot of jambands downloaded, I'd appreciate your input and advice...
For example - as with burning a show to CD, in listening to a concert I'd prefer not to endure a 2 second delay from song to song within a sho - is there a setting so that there is no "gap" between songs in a concert, as the tunes often run together?
Any tips would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Message Edited by casique2000 on <SPAN class=date_text>-09-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>07:34 PM
Message Edited by casique2000 on -09-2005 07:5 PM
Thanks for the feedback - I'll look into this and at least learn how to properly tag, determine how much time and effort it takes (I'm somewhat lazy)
From a practical standpoint however, the jamband concerts I will listen to will have songs that are played on numerous nights (the draw for fans is that no two versions are ever the same, and in fact are often quite different)
As such the same song will appear many many times in my library - I don't expect to go "looking" for a particular song and and although I might consider bookmarking some better performances, ultimately I imagine I'll cue up a show and simply skip ahead past any songs I don't like
In that sense I think I'm different from a lot of users who use the Zen Xtra - and with the file names already reflecting band name, and the date of the concert - I expect that should be good enough for me as I would likely be inclined to listen to an entire show
Really appreciate the feedback though - thanks... and still am wondering whether or not there are going to be "gaps" between songs and if there's any way around that
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