What features do you want to see in the D2 firmware?

[snorreh]

Check out all the great suggestions found in this thread:
http://www.iaudiophile.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=12945

I hope that Cowon will comply with the wishes from their most enthusiastic users.

I'd like to see the following features:

• A File Manager utility would also be nice where you can copy, move and delete files and folders in both internal and external (SD card) memory.
  
• The possibility to enable the TV-out feature globally for every menu, which would be especially nice for displaying pictures on the TV and also for hooking up the D2 to your stereo system using the A/V cable.
  
• To be able to play video files without requiring to convert them to 320x240 resolution first, as well as support for higher resolution TV-out if possible.

But first of all, fix the bugs before adding more features. Keep up the good work!

[scheide]

Definitely good suggestions on the link you provided. Didn't want to register there as well, so I'll only add that I think the firmware should remember your personal settings between upgrades.

[Soul_Rvr911]

I would love to see Musepack support. It's already in the A2, hopefully they can bring it to the D2 soon!

[philaudio]

This is pretty simple... while we can all come up with a list of codecs that can be supported I have one main thing to crybaby about that almost every other player can support...

...MULTIPLE PLAYLIST SUPPORT!!!!

I mean seriously guys, there is NO excuse for not implementing this. Dealing with the A2 and now the D2 this is the ONE negative about these players. And it is a BIG negative, I mean there are a TON of less capable players that gets this right the first time.

Really, when you open stuff up in notepad.. a playlist in any given form is just a mere text file plain & simple. What is so friggin hard in having these capable players read.... a text file... and playing according to what's listed in this text file? You mean it's possible to implement & improve audio/video codec support, have the D2 support FlashLite games, and ensure that the D2 can support SDHC cards... YET we can't get the luxury of ANY multiple playlist support? PLS?! Or ANYTHING that you guys can throw together?!?!

Seriously, it's fortunate that these players seems to get everything else right otherwise I seriously look elsewhere, tho a couple of friends I know of who was seriously interested in the D2 was immediately turned off after finding out there's no PLS support. Sure one can make folders & put their favorite songs there but really... isn't this a waste of space when they have those same songs in existing folders/albums on the player? Obviously the player's capabilities is up to a trivial task of playing from a PLS file so WHY are we not given this on the D2 & A2?!?! I mean for crying out loud... IT WAS ON THE IAUDIO M3!!!!! So wait, was this support all of a sudden dropped with someone up top saying "you know what... eh it wouldn't hurt to implement it JUST IN CASE someone needs the support but you know... maybe just having stuff play from ONE DYNAMIC PLAYLIST is more flexible".

Eh, sorry if I went off in rant mode but the combination of this being an otherwise great capable player AND the fact that developers are continually updating this player... it seems that they're ignoring the complaints of playlist support for whatever reason I don't feel like speculating in (ah what the hell, because we don't need it? because we don't deserve that much luxury? because we should worship one god and that one god is the almighty default dynamic playlist which we should all put on random shuffle mode? No other playlist shall come before this gawd?)

*sigh* I'm done here -_-

[freemanli]

I would like to have

1) a build in English Dictionary (oxford or Longman)
with a small keyboard, that will be wonderful, even to pay extra money,
for example 20.00USD.
you can make it registered to single serial Number so that no free copy.
2) Notepad better have a keyboard input.

3) fixing bug of 2.50Beta is for sure,don't have to say.

[freemanli]

Please make sure it can display the Pronunciation and phonetic symbols in uniform for Chinese.
also, there are some characters can't be display now in 2.5Beta

thanks

[Soul_Rvr911]

As well as MusePack support, I'd also like to see gapless playback! (This occurred to me while I was listening to an album and heard a nasty gap in between two tracks which are supposed to flow.) MP3 now supports gapless playback (and I'm pretty sure OGG always has natively), so the D2 should as well!

[zerg49]

some support for aac (maybe even protected) would be awesome for us ex ipod users, its such a great device, its too bad a lot of people are going to have a problem when they realize they have 500, 1000 or even more songs that are useless now that they have a d2, also just support in general for different music services (napster and others)

[Areev]

I've been very pleased with each firmware update so far! To be honest, it started me thinking of more possibilities. Here are a couple:

• Updates for swf playback:
  • An XML document of existing media files for the flash player to load.
  • The onMouseMove event to trigger when sliding a finger across the screen.
  • Transparent window (wmode) background.
  • Set SWF as wallpaper.
  • Imployment of Flash Player 9 to take advantage of ActionScript 3 Sound object improvements (SoundMixer.computeSpectrum would allow for swf-based audio animations/visualizations).
  • ExternalInterface (req. Flash Player 8) functions for calling D2 methods (display HUD, get/set volume, etc).
• The ability to print pictures or text documents when attached to a USB printer.
• A calculator (The more advanced, the better).
• The ability to save, load, and delete playlists in the XSPF format from the Dynamic Playlist screen.
• Adjust the seek bar to have a slightly larger hit area (and perhaps allow scrubbing).
• Improved percision when scrolling with pointer strokes. Ideally, a list would scroll while screen is pressed and stop when released.

Thanks for listening!

[freemanli]

Originally Posted by freemanli

Please make sure it can display the Pronunciation and phonetic symbols in uniform for Chinese.
also, there are some characters can't be display now in 2.5Beta

thanks

because now I just load an English dictionary in TXT format, it will be really good to display KK phonetic symbols font