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10-02-2007, 08:50 PM
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The Official Insignia Pilot Feature Request List
Welcome to the Insignia Pilot Feature Request/Bug Report Thread This thread was created by the community, as a central area where the Insignia MP3 Team can easily find what features we would like to see in the Pilot series, as well as future players from Insignia. So here's how it works: you suggest a feature, and I'll put it in the "New Requests" category (Note: By suggesting a feature, you automatically vote "yes" for it). Once there, it may be voted on by other members. If it receives at least 1 more "yes" vote, it'll be moved to the "Low Priority" category. If it receives 3 more "yes" votes, it'll move to the "High Priority" category. If a feature receives 5 "no" votes, it may be placed in the "Recycle Bin", but only if the "no" votes outnumber the "yes" votes. You may also submit bug reports. If a bug receives 2 "yes" votes, it'll be moved to high priority. Please be sure to include the version of firmware you are presently running when submitting a bug. Please read before voting:
__________________________________________________ ____________ Stats Total Votes Counted: 146 Total Features Requested: 43 (Non-Software Related: 0 Change Reqs.: 2) Total Possible Bugs Found: 8 Features which might make it into next, or subsequent firmware release: 9 Bugs which might be fixed in next, or subsequent firmware release: 2 Last Updated: September, 18th, 2008 at 12:20PM (GMT-7) Latest firmware version: 1.006 Released: ----- Next firmware release date: Unknown Features implemented so far: 0 Bugs fixed so far: 0 __________________________________________________ ____________ High Priority ID 1 Remember playlist / currently playing media after sync/charge [10 votes] 2 Ability to display album art from folder.jpg / albumart.jpg images [7 votes] 26 FLAC audio support [6 votes] 9 Wallpaper [7 votes] 7 When returning to a bookmarked file, player should also play all files in the directory of the bookmarked file [5 votes] 1c <FCR> Add “Play/Add” sub-menu to Folder Browser [5 votes] Pressing play on a folder should bring up a context menu like in media library. This would make it possible to organize your music in a deeply nested folder structure and play/add more than just one folder at a time. 15 Option to disable data communications while connected to PC [5 votes] (Description: Add a "Do not connect" option to the connection type menu. This would allow you to use the player while charging via the USB port) 13 Multiple on-the-go playlists + playlist editor [9 votes] (Description: Multiple on the go playlists, with the ability to save, name, and edit -- insert to, append to, move within, and remove from -- playlists) 1b BUG:{Major, Confirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Player hangs while trying to display certain .JPG images [3 votes] 2b BUG:{Major, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Pressing back multiple times causes player to skip forward in random mode [6 votes] Description: While in random mode in the “Now Playing” screen, pressing the skip back button will go the beginning of the song, but each subsequent press skips forward through the playlist. 8 Ability to search the database for specific artists, albums or songs [5 votes] Low Priority 8b BUG:{Minor, Confirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Clock flickers during playback [1 votes] 7b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Embedded progressive JPG album artshows up as a black image if copied in MSC mode [1 votes] 6b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 }Player forgets currently playing media upon SD card insertion/removal [1 votes] 5b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Pressing the menu or 'up' button while playing audio causes a 'pop' sound [1 votes] 4b BUG:{Major, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 } Player occasionally skips tracks prematurely or starts playing a track a few seconds already in [1 votes] 3b BUG:{Minor, Unconfirmed, Firmware: 1.006 }Album art is not displayed for WMA lossless files [1 votes] 42 In-player Bluetooth volume control [2 votes] 4 Ability to copy files from external to internal memory and vice versa [2 votes] 3 Better Unicode support [3 votes] 6 Video/Photo Folders [2 votes] (Description: Allow Videos and Photos to be organized by folders) 10 Ability to sort library by song rating [3 votes] 11 Option to force player to immediately respond to button presses while idling [3 votes] 12 Additional EQ profiles [2 votes] 16 Ability to edit filenames in the player [3 votes | -1 vote] 14 Player should check to see if ID3 tags have been modified since last DB refresh to prevent unnecessary time consuming DB refreshes [4 votes] 18 Display artist name next to song title in the “Now Playing” quick view list [4 votes] 19 Audio Crossfading [3 votes] 20 Gapless Offset [2 votes] (Description: Because the silence between tracks vary greatly depending on how they were encoded, it is difficult to create a one-size-fits-all gapless setting. This feature would allow the user to adjust the duration of silence between tracks to something that best suites their music collection. This option would tell the player, in milliseconds how prematurely to skip tracks. Options could be: -500ms -250ms -100ms Off (e.g., "-500ms" would tell the player to skip tracks 500ms before the current track has ended, reducing or eliminating any silence)) 21 Automatically record radio in mono or stereo depending on mode selected in radio settings [3 votes] 22 LCD backlight should shut off if the player is connected to a computer for a certain period of time [3 votes] (Description: The player should obey the backlight timeout setting while connected to a computer.) 24 FM Timer Recording [3 votes] (Description: Allows users to schedule a time for the player to start recording the FM radio) 25 Alarm clock function [3 votes] 27 Audio fade option [2 votes] (Description: Audio fades in and out when song is stopped/started, paused, or player is powered off/on, like the iAudio U3, or iriver clix) 28 Games [4 votes | -2 votes] 2c <FCR> Player should ignore the word "The" in song titles, album titles, and artist names when sorting alphabetically [2 votes | -1 votes] 31 Improve context menu button functionality [2 votes | -1 votes] (Description:
33 Ability to delete an entire folder [4 votes] 34 Player should remain in the same directory after syncing, SD card insertion/removal, and after deleting a file [4 votes] 35 Ability to play video at 640x480 via TV-out [2 votes] 2c <FCR> Reverse menu button operation [4 votes] (PB: Pressing the "Menu" button briefly should take you to the previous screen, and holding it down should take you to the main menu. CB: Currently, it's just the opposite, which isn't what most users expect.) 37 Visualizations [3 votes] 38 AAC audio support [2 votes] New Requests 41 Ability to tag files recorded from FM radio with RDS data [1 vote] 5 Ability to switch to filename view in photo browser [1 vote] 17 Allow full operation of the player while external memory is indexed (background indexing) [1 vote] 23 Option to enable audio feedback [1 votes] (Description: The player would make an audible sound through the headphones such as a 'click' whenever an item is highlighted, a button is pressed, or a message window pops up.) 29 GAMES: Tetris [1 votes] 30 GAMES: Breakout [1 votes] 36 Replay Gain tag support for all music formats, especially OGG Vorbis [1 vote] 39 Ability to record audio directly to external memory [1 vote] 40 Ability to play WMA files from the Audible folder [1 vote] Implemented/Fixed None Legend: {Confirmed} = At least two people have experienced this bug. {Unconfirmed} = Only one person has experienced this bug. {Major} = This bug affects normal operation of the player. {Minor} = This bug does not affect normal operation of the player. {PIP} = Possibly Isolated Problem. This may be a hardware malfunction, specific to a single player. {Firmware:} = Firmware version this bug is present in. <FCR> = Feature Change Request. Requesting the modification of an existing feature/function. CB = Current Behavior. How a feature/function behaves currently. PB = Proposed Behavior. How a feature/function should behave. Notice: Feature preview images are merely representations of what I think a feature may look like. They are not meant to represent what a feature will actually look like if implemented. All images, audio, and video are Copyright © 2008 Tobey Phillips, unless noted otherwise.
f43b8c2-91708(41408)-173 (161-164) Last edited by Tobey; 09-18-2008 at 01:11 PM. 
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#3
10-03-2007, 10:27 AM
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** Remember playlist after sync/charge **
It would be great if the Pilot could remember the dynamic playlist and currently playing song after USB sync. I understand the files could change, but it relentlessly profiles the media any time something halfway major happens (including sync) and should be able to tell if nothing changed.
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#4
10-03-2007, 10:30 AM
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BUG: Locks up on some images
Haven't established a pattern, but while in MSC mode I uploaded folders with cover.jpg album art. These may have unexpected DPI or very large sizes, but the Pilot should not lock up. I have to hold the power switch over for 10 or 15 seconds so the player shuts off.
Edit: Should have noted this before... NS-4V24, firmware v1.006 Last edited by mattschuette; 10-12-2007 at 10:24 AM. Reason: technical details
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#5
10-03-2007, 10:32 AM
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** Album art with MSC **
Only way I've found to include album art is via MTP. It would be great if cover.jpg or folder.jpg or [album name].jpg could be used as cover art. Added bonus would be if these were ignored in the Pictures list, but if not, that's fine too.
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#6
10-03-2007, 10:38 AM
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BUG: Back goes forward
I consider this a bug.
CB: When you are in random mode on the now playing screen playing a song, pressing left or back will go the beginning of the song (this is correct). Press it again and you move FORWARD in the playlist. PB: Retain going to beginning of current song, but subsequent press should play previous song. Especially since the random playlist appears to be pre-built rather than dynamically choosing the next random song, this seems like a no brainer. Edit: Should have noted this before... NS-4V24, firmware v1.006 Last edited by mattschuette; 10-12-2007 at 10:24 AM. Reason: technical details
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#7
10-03-2007, 10:46 AM
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** Play/Add context menu in Folder Browser **
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When using the media library, pressing the play button on an Artist, Album, Genre, etc., you get a context menu to Play, Add to playlist, Play All, etc. When you are in the Folder Browser, play simply expands the folder (which can also, more intuitively, be done using right/next). This makes it only possible to play/add one file, or all files in the immediate folder. PB: Pressing play on a folder should bring up a context menu like in media library. This would make it possible to organize your music in a deeply nested folder structure and play/add more than just one folder at a time. For instance, if you have "artist/album/nn - song.mp3", it is not currently possible to add all albums from one artist at once using folder browser. Last edited by mattschuette; 10-05-2007 at 01:31 PM. Reason: grammar
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#8
10-03-2007, 01:28 PM
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I agree with these 3 things. I absolutely hate that you cannot go back in random mode
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-Insignia Pilot 8GB - Dead  , Screen is not easily replaceable at all -Cowon D2 16GB - The Pilot Replacement
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#9
10-05-2007, 01:40 PM
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My only problem with the player is how it implements bookmarks & folder browsing. I listen to audio books which are often broken up into multiple files in a folder (similar to how music albums are stored). If you bookmark a file while listening to it and then reload it the player will only play the single file bookmarked and when it finish it will not go to the next file. The same is true if you navigate to a file with the file browser. It only plays the single file selected. Bookmarking as it is currently implemented, is not useful unless your audio books consist of a single file. The file browser is not useful unless you only want to play a single file. All the players needs to do is if it gets to the end of the file and it is not in shuffle/repeat mode then play the next file in the folder. Either that or the bookmarking needs to remember not just the file but also the playlist.
I also second the suggestion that the player remembers the currently playing file and playlist when doing USB Syncing.
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#10
10-05-2007, 01:54 PM
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** Better Unicode support via MSC **
I have several albums from German, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian, etc. artists and when I tried to copy these over via MSC, the tag information didn't display correctly. I use Windows XP and Foobar2000 0.9.4.4 (or whatever 0.9.x is the latest at any given time) for all of my music. Typically, I enter the tags in fb2k using the Alt+0xxx key combos for special characters (ä being Alt-0228, for example). Foobar2000 is set to use id3v1 and id3v2.4 for tags. After the tags are correct, I use fb2k's file renaming function to name the files as they are tagged, so the file names also contain special characters.
When copied to the Pilot, most of the special chars were replaced with a space and some other character while browsing the library. While in Folder Browser, though, the file names appeared correct. There is a little more about what I tried on this thread. As near as I can tell, WinXP uses UTF-16 for Unicode filenames. ID3v2.4 specifies UTF-8 as the standard encoding for tags, though ID3v1, I believe, uses locale-specific encoding (so probably ASCII or ISO-8859-1... standard US English WinXP). Also, it would seem that ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 all share the same encoding for the basic accented characters. I have a reasonable understanding with regards to text encoding, but am by no means an expert. I'd be happy to send sample files, try various suggestions or otherwise work with the developers to isolate the problem or what I am doing wrong. Basically, I'd like accented Latin characters, Cyrillic characters, or anything else in Unicode to work for files transfered via MSC. FWIW, my wife's Cowon iAudio G3 does seem to understand the encoding of my tags as is. Last edited by mattschuette; 10-05-2007 at 02:00 PM. Reason: Link to thread
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10-05-2007, 02:25 PM
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Yesterday a person asked me about Unicode support, etc. So I tried it out.
I took two mp3 songs. Named on in Russian and updated the tags, ID3V2, to have Russian. Then I took the second song, and found some Chinese on Wikipedia, and inputted the Chinese text into the filename and into the ID3V2 tags. In folder browsing the text was displayed properly for both songs, when playing the song the text was displayed properly for both songs. When browsing the music by ID3 tags, the text was displayed fine in all of the categories (artist, title, genre, etc.) So I'm not sure why you are having that issue 
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#12
10-05-2007, 04:59 PM
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should be Artist: Otyg Album: Galdersång Till Bergfadern Title: Blåkullafärden shows as (the Ặ is mostly a guess, but the other two unintended characters are exactly as shown - CJK ideogram and pound sign) Artist: Otyg Album: GaldersẶng Till Bergfadern肠 Title: BlẶkullaf£rden Folder Browser on the Pilot gets it right. Update: If I use Mp3tag to write ONLY id3v2.3 with UTF-16, it does work via MSC. So, I guess I want UTF-8 and id3v2.4 support.
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#13
10-05-2007, 06:20 PM
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** Album art with MSC ** BIG YES VOTE
Album art MUST be recognized. I use ogg, and my software is unable to embed the covers in that format. Synching with ogg is difficult at best. I prefer simply copying my albu folders over, and those ALWAYS include a folder.jpg, or cover.jpg.
Simple album cover detection of common cover titles is a must, espescially for files where covers are not embedded or cannot be embedded. Not to mention us who would prefer 1 simple image per folder insteaad of embedding the same image over and over. It would be GREAT for that image to not be restricted to a exact size and dimensions, but rather loose, for example up to 800x800 and up to 100kb. Another option if there is no embedded or specifically recognized cover name, to use any image in the folder if there is one. Cover recognition priority. 1. Embedded 2. Recognized Cover Name.jpg 3. Last resort, any image that happens to be in the folder Thanks!
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10-05-2007, 06:59 PM
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I agree with bookmarks remembering the playlist and the current track position. This is especially important for multi-track audiobooks and live albums. Both Cowon and Rio implemented bookmarks in this way. This type of bookmark lets the listener switch back and forth easily between different audiobooks.
It could be implemented as a user option: one track or whole playlist.
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#15
10-05-2007, 09:45 PM
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-Insignia Pilot 8GB - Dead , Screen is not easily replaceable at all -Cowon D2 16GB - The Pilot Replacement
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#16
10-05-2007, 09:48 PM
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Voting Yes to the Features Below
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-Insignia Pilot 8GB - Dead , Screen is not easily replaceable at all -Cowon D2 16GB - The Pilot Replacement
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#17
10-05-2007, 11:38 PM
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Features that I would Like - Combined otherwise I would have 2000 posts
SD Card
Context Menus
Text
Video
Usability
Sound
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-Insignia Pilot 8GB - Dead , Screen is not easily replaceable at all -Cowon D2 16GB - The Pilot Replacement
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#18
10-07-2007, 09:20 AM
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Firmware version: shipping firmware when Pilot first launched (I'm not sure of the number, sorry)
BUG: With audio bookmarks on SD-card-based tracks of any type, the wrong song title -- one from main memory -- is shown in the Load Bookmarks list. Thankfully, if you play the bookmark, it goes straight to the right point in the right SD-card-based track. **Playlist editing**: PB: Playlist editing, particularly for "Now Playing" (have one of the buttons, preferably menu, bring up a pop-up menu with track delete and move commands) **Default Music Library category setting**: CB: Music Library always starts at Play All. PB: Have a setting to customize which category occurs first when you go to Music Library from the main menu the first time; subsequently, have player remember where you were in Music Library after a selection is made, then return you to that same place. My votes for features upthread: Remember playlist after sync/charge - YES Play/Add context menu in Folder Browser - YES Bookmarks that remember a point in a playlist - YES Back goes forward (in Random mode) - YES Last edited by ThatTree; 10-07-2007 at 09:35 AM. Reason: added firmware version
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#19
10-07-2007, 10:05 AM
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** Album art with MSC ** BIG YES VOTE ; Double BIG YES VOTE!
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I prefer using MSC mode because of its inherent simplicity in quickly loading media.
Last edited by ggkrich; 10-07-2007 at 11:20 AM. Reason: Opps! spelling error
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#20
10-07-2007, 10:20 AM
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** Bookmarking with RETENTION of the WHOLE PLAYLIST** would GREATLY enhance the practicle useability of this feature. Having the bookmark restore playback qued to the proper position WITHIN the associated ALBUM or AUDIO BOOK seems only natural and intuitive to me.
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