03-05-2014, 05:44 AM
Hi,
I found some time to test the (updated) App some more intense. It now starts on my XP PC and looks nice. The use is intuitional and I got along with it quickly.
Unfortunately it only seems to do what it should at the (for me) important points. What did I do:
1. Tested to move games and music from my Storio 2 device to the PC.
-> Worked and I got the files on my PC. I did not try to put them back on the device (yet). I could imagine that games will make troubles/ will not work or maybe even appear in the menu anymore after putting back to the device as the Storio may have changed the DB in the meantime.
2. Tested to add thumbnails to listening books via an USB SD Card reader plugged to the PC.
-> On the screen I was able to change the images and it looked well. Unfortunately the Storio does not show them after putting the SD Card back to the Storio.
3. Tested to add thumbnails to listening books with the Storio directly connected with the PC.
-> Same thing. On the screen every thing looked good but after I disconnected the Storio and went back to the music menu the just edited files were disappeared. After a re-start of the Storio 2 they were back again on the list (as the Storio seems to rebuild/ update the DB at every start) but again there are no thumbnails on them.
4. Some side notes and wishes for future versions:
-> When I added thumbnails to the listening books I found that the default folder is "my data". There it looks like that I'm able to access different and sub folders to look for the thumbs. But when the pictures are e.g. on an USB disc in a subfolder "listening books" I can not access any subfolders there. They are not even displayed. If I put the thumbnails to the root of my USB disc I can use them. Would it be possible to make subfolders accessable on other drives, too?
-> The Storio sorts all files in the music folder alpha numeric. The app shows them the same way. For me it is and looks ugly if e.g. there 3 different books with each having 3 chapters on the Storio (01 x, 02 x, 03 x, 01 y, 02 y, ...). They are displayed like 01 x, 01 y, 01 z, 02 x, 02 y, ... bahhh .. :-( I know that I could help myself with renaming the files like x 01, x 02, y 01, y 02 and so on but I don't like to have all my files renamed.
I would find it cool if you could add the possibilty to arrange the files "free" by just drag and drop them to another position. Well I think this would mean that the DB entries would have to be changed automatically, too. E.g. if I take file #5 (from the Top of the list) and move it to top as #1 the postion index at the DB should be switched automatically. I would say like with a channel editor for TV's.
At the end I want to say that this is a great App and will be very very usefull if you can make it work 100%. The things like sorting and accessing subfolders would be nice to have but are not priority #1 if the Storio would display the thumbnails.
Thank you very much for your efforts so far! Keep on going/ compiling!
Best Regards
Forever1972
I found some time to test the (updated) App some more intense. It now starts on my XP PC and looks nice. The use is intuitional and I got along with it quickly.
Unfortunately it only seems to do what it should at the (for me) important points. What did I do:
1. Tested to move games and music from my Storio 2 device to the PC.
-> Worked and I got the files on my PC. I did not try to put them back on the device (yet). I could imagine that games will make troubles/ will not work or maybe even appear in the menu anymore after putting back to the device as the Storio may have changed the DB in the meantime.
2. Tested to add thumbnails to listening books via an USB SD Card reader plugged to the PC.
-> On the screen I was able to change the images and it looked well. Unfortunately the Storio does not show them after putting the SD Card back to the Storio.
3. Tested to add thumbnails to listening books with the Storio directly connected with the PC.
-> Same thing. On the screen every thing looked good but after I disconnected the Storio and went back to the music menu the just edited files were disappeared. After a re-start of the Storio 2 they were back again on the list (as the Storio seems to rebuild/ update the DB at every start) but again there are no thumbnails on them.
4. Some side notes and wishes for future versions:
-> When I added thumbnails to the listening books I found that the default folder is "my data". There it looks like that I'm able to access different and sub folders to look for the thumbs. But when the pictures are e.g. on an USB disc in a subfolder "listening books" I can not access any subfolders there. They are not even displayed. If I put the thumbnails to the root of my USB disc I can use them. Would it be possible to make subfolders accessable on other drives, too?
-> The Storio sorts all files in the music folder alpha numeric. The app shows them the same way. For me it is and looks ugly if e.g. there 3 different books with each having 3 chapters on the Storio (01 x, 02 x, 03 x, 01 y, 02 y, ...). They are displayed like 01 x, 01 y, 01 z, 02 x, 02 y, ... bahhh .. :-( I know that I could help myself with renaming the files like x 01, x 02, y 01, y 02 and so on but I don't like to have all my files renamed.
I would find it cool if you could add the possibilty to arrange the files "free" by just drag and drop them to another position. Well I think this would mean that the DB entries would have to be changed automatically, too. E.g. if I take file #5 (from the Top of the list) and move it to top as #1 the postion index at the DB should be switched automatically. I would say like with a channel editor for TV's.
At the end I want to say that this is a great App and will be very very usefull if you can make it work 100%. The things like sorting and accessing subfolders would be nice to have but are not priority #1 if the Storio would display the thumbnails.
Thank you very much for your efforts so far! Keep on going/ compiling!
Best Regards
Forever1972