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Diploid
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Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF?
#9758673 - 02/08/09 02:19 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I've worn out another MP3 player (iRiver) and am looking for a replacement. The Zune 120gb is on my short list because I listen to a lot of audiobooks and the Zune has a bookmarks feature. But now I'm reading that it doesn't have an equalizer? WTF is wrong with these people?
Anyone have one of these who can confirm this? This is almost as stoopid as Apple leaving off the left-right balance control on the iPod Touch. They must think the ears and playback chain of everyone on Earth are perfectly linear.
If it turns out the Zune designers are drooling morons after all, any suggestion on another high end, high capacity player that can put a bookmark in the middle of a long MP3 file? I don't care too much about video or fancy screens (though I don't mind having that) and price doesn't matter.
Suggestions?
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: Diploid]
#9759687 - 02/08/09 11:02 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't know Zune did that w/ bookmarks.
I listen to way more books-on-tape than I do music, so that would be incredible.
You can only break a book into so many "chapters".
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: Diploid]
#9777015 - 02/11/09 06:36 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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So, no suggestions? Doesn't anyone have a favorite player? How about a hated player I can trim off my list?
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: Diploid]
#9777022 - 02/11/09 06:41 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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i have a creative labs zen and it has a custom eq that you can set yourself.. i hate to say it but i like my ipod better except for that one feature
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: Diploid]
#9777045 - 02/11/09 07:03 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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My gf got the Zune for christmas...I don't know, it's a good player but it doesn't have nearly the amount of options that I want.
She loves it, though. However, it is exactly what I don't like in it that she likes the most! Ease of use, and no more settings than you absolutely need.
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: trendal]
#9777733 - 02/11/09 11:22 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I was always pissed that ipods never had proper 5 or 7 band EQs (though I never paid for the thing myself, so I was in no position to complain), and I was thinking about getting a zune, on the condition it had an EQ . The last mp3 player I had that had a proper EQ was a creative labs model, but it was very old, but it beat the fuck out of equivalent generation ipods. It even had an FM radio tuner and recording ability.
I'm looking at samsungs now.
Edited by Minstrel (02/11/09 11:35 AM)
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Re: Zune MP3 Player Has No Equalizer? WTF? [Re: Minstrel]
#9779967 - 02/11/09 05:59 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have an older Zune and it has EQ presets. It still kinda sucks because you can't manually set the EQ>
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