According to the manual, the playback order can be determined by the name of music files, which is not true. Songs are, if not the souffle mode is set, played in the order in which they were written to memory. This has the advantage that the file names no numbers must be prefixed to force a particular order. The disadvantage, however, that the order can be changed retrospectively hardly targeted and that subsequent renaming a file can get the order mixed up. It is better if the order would be decided on an updateable list would. But you can not ask for the price well.
For my purposes, the i.Beat enough, but I would like to mention that my negative impression accrued points:
- The earphones are too big for my ears, so they keep badly.
- The upper rocker switch does not respond each time in music mode. (Seems to the software to do, because the function in other modes properly.)
- The operation is quite used to.
- At the beginning and end of an audio file each fraction of a second will not play, what I find disturbing in some songs.
- The volume is quite low, particularly in radio, which is much quieter than the player. (If the equalizer used, the volume is still low, since one frequency are lowered.)
- The radio can not switch from mono to stereo in my device even with a stereo transmitter.
- Radio recordings are of poor quality. They sound as if they had been taken up by the microphone of a horn gramophone.
- Microphone recordings sound too dull and are backed by a continuous buzz.
- When charging the battery, there is no indication of the state of charge and no indication of whether the battery is fully charged.
- AVI files have to be converted, and with an enclosed only for Windows program (I have in the absence of a Windows system not tested). On the Internet I found a clue on how to convert a file with Linux's standard tools, but this has not worked for me.
- The player can not play FLAC and OGG files.
- Firmware update possible only under Windows.
- In text mode, umlauts are displayed wrong (at least UTF8 coded, others I have not tried).
- The battery is not replaceable.
Play in the kitchen canned music through amplified speakers - - For my purpose the i.Beat move S 2.0 is sufficient. However, anyone who has higher expectations, should look rather to another device.
