Originally Posted by JerryGuitar
i am in the market for a digital music player, and have been looking at the X5L 30GB. A couple posts in this thread raised questions for me - please excuse my ignorance:
- what is ID3 browsing? i read on another site that you can't play tracks by album with this player? how does the browsing work then?
- what is "gapless" play? Does that mean if i have a live concert with multiple tracks, it will put spaces between the songs? no seamless Scarlet->Fire transition?
thanks!
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ID3 browsing is basically browsing the music on the DAP by the song title, etc. I'm not sure what exactly the other site poster was referring to when they say you 'can't play tracks by album on the iAudio X5. I do that all the time. My music is stored artist/album/track and I can browse and play by either method. I do have to move through the hierarchy to play an individual song. Most of the time I navigate to the album I want and just tell my X5 to play the album and away it goes.
- gapless play is moving from one song to the next without a pause or 'gap'. So, yes there'd be a short gap between tracks in your example.
iAudio seems to be very responsive to their customers and I fully expect them to release a firmware upgrade to support ID3 and 'fix' some of the other minor things. I love my X5 and wouldn't trade it for any of the other players on the market.