e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

[austonia]

>>>Serious Flaw in O1000 design, read:
I have been reading the Osyssey 1000 product manual available on edig's homepage and I found some peculiarities. First, IT DOESN'T SUPPORT ID3 TAGS. The entire indexing structure is based off the file names only! Every other MP3 player on the market right now displays the ID3 tag information in each MP3 file : artist, album, track, track #, genre, composer, etc.. but the O1000 only uses the filename itself. You have to build a directory structure for each Artist, making Album Subdirecties, and then renaming each track to the song title only. Else the VoiceNav won't find them. And the VoiceNav is limited to 85 files per directory!
As a comparison, you don't have to mess with filenames or directories at all on the two best selling hard-drive pocket MP3 players - iPod and Zen, which use MP3 tags to index and display extensive information for each track as its playing.
On a side note, while O1000 does show up as "Mass Storage Device" you still need to use edig's proprietary software to transfer music to the player. And you have to "Stop" the device before disconnecting it from your computer else it won't index properly. This is similiar to the Windows iPod.