Comments on: MuVo woes http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/ Strategies for Internet citizens Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tankilo http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-124606 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:56:40 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-124606 I have this same player for the same reasons and this same complaint of slow transfer speeds :(
Come christmas I’ll probably give a look to those power up mp3 players. Oddly in my google searching I couldn’t find a website for the company, just online stores that sold their products.
Also just wanted to contribute that I use “Juice” http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ right now to download all my podcasts into MyDocuments\MyReceivedPodcasts
Then I create a folder named 20080701 (for all the podcasts on the year 2008, the 7th month, and the 1st day of the month), and drag and drop all the podcast folders directly into that folder, then inside the folder I move the podcasts or rename them to the order I want them to play in, and then transfer that one folder to the mp3 player while I take a 15 minute break.
This works awesome for listening to daily podcasts (buzz out loud / adam carolla / rush limbaugh / tech5 / GillmorGang), and I always move the last adam carolla segment to the very last folder so that I know when I hear that, I can delete that entire folder.
I highly recommend this system instead of trying to use iTunes and playlists, but perhaps I’m just fanatical.
Darn you creative for making such a great product with such an achilies heal and then offering no recourse!

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-50053 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:49:13 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-50053 “try to find the digital MP3 audio player from “Power Up!”

Aha. Nice tip, thanks!

]]> By: Jon Udell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-50052 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:47:46 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-50052 “Have you any tricks for easily dropping podcasts onto this type of device?”

At the moment I keep two different instances of iTunes going, on two different computers. One is for a music collection that I do synch to my iPod, the other is for podcasts that I mainly listen to on the MuVo. In the latter case I just mount the gadget and drag/drop the talks I want to hear.

It’s an interesting adaptation, actually, which I hadn’t really thought about until now. Clearly it says something about the very different nature of a more-or-less permanent music collection versus transient use of podcasts.

]]> By: Peter Murray http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-49822 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:21:37 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-49822 Jon — try to find the digital MP3 audio player from “Power Up!” USB2.0 data transfer, MP3/WMA player, USB flash storage, voice recorder, backlit LCD display. I got the 1GB model for nearly-free-after-rebate at Christmastime last year. It is the second Power Up! device that I’ve own (the other is a 256MB model), and I’ve been very happy with both of them: very good battery life, fast transfer, relatively straight forward interface.

]]> By: Bernard Farrell http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-49810 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:10:12 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/15/muvo-woes/#comment-49810 I was fortunate enough to find a recondition SanDisk Sansa 2GB on Woot the other day. While it doesn’t work on a single AAA battery they claim it’ll get many hours on a single recharge. We’ll see.

Have you any tricks for easily dropping podcasts onto this type of device?

I normally download the MP3s off ITConversations or some other site and use iTunes to burn them on CD for the car (I know it’s wasteful but it works). I don’t need to go through so many steps, so if you have a quick trick I’d love to hear it.

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