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====== Vorstik V1 - Portable MP3 Player ====== | ====== Vorstik V1 - Portable MP3 Player ====== | ||
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+ | A brief review of a this MP3 player, focused on the handling of full music albums. It is actually a **Chinese no-brand MP3 player**, shipped by some on-line reseller with varying fantasy brands, as **Vorstik** or Verstik; it seems - from some photos seen on the net - that the firmware is the same as the one running in the **Benjie K11** and **[[http:// | ||
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+ | ^ Display | ||
+ | ^ Memory | ||
+ | ^ Buttons | ||
+ | ^ Battery | ||
+ | ^ Connector | ||
+ | ^ Extra | Bluetooth connection, FM Radio, speaker. | ||
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+ | From the home screen: //Set// => // | ||
=== Pro === | === Pro === | ||
- | * Low price. | + | * Low **price**. |
- | * 8 Gb storage space, accomodates about 80 music albums in 256 kbit quality. | + | |
- | * Quick and responsive user interface. | + | * Quick and **responsive** user interface. |
- | * Support for extended charsets (accented characters, etc.). | + | * Support for **extended charsets** (accented characters, etc.). |
- | * Support MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis codecs. | + | * Support MP3 and **Ogg/Vorbis** codecs. |
- | * Scan tracks for ID3 tags, browse by album, by artist, etc. | + | * Scan tracks for **ID3 tags**, browse by album, by artist, etc. |
=== Con === | === Con === | ||
- | * Poor quality display. | + | * Poor quality |
- | * Display: truncated | + | * **Truncated** |
- | * ID3 inline | + | * Inline **picure** not supported |
- | * Per-folder (album) artwork poorly supported. | + | * Per-folder (album) |
- | * File browse mode not alphabetically sorted. | + | |
- | * Non-oleophobic display glass: full of fingerprints in few minutes. | + | * Non-oleophobic display glass: full of **fingerprints** in few minutes. |
+ | * Internal **clock** loses its time randomly. | ||
====== Browsing Music ====== | ====== Browsing Music ====== | ||
+ | When you connect the music player to a PC using the provided USB cable, it is detected as an **USB mass storage device**, so you can copy music tracks to the internal memory. I used an organization by album, i.e. all the tracks composing an album are stored into a single directory. | ||
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+ | When you eject the device from the PC operating system, the player updates its the music library scanning for **ID3 tags**. I used V2.4 tags, which are recognized correctly. If the music collection is correctly tagged with ID3 tags, the player can browse the music collection **by artist** or **by album**, in alphabetical order. This is very handy. | ||
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+ | In the above pictures you can see how - in the **Album view** - the names are truncated to **12 characters**. Browsing the file directories (in my case each folder is one album) the file names are truncated to **19 characters** and they are **not sorted**. | ||
===== Truncated ID3 Tags ===== | ===== Truncated ID3 Tags ===== | ||
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One of the worst defects for usability of this player, is the user interface truncating ID3 tags: album name, track title, artist name, everything is truncated in player screen. This is very unpleasant, considering the fact that the display would be wide enough to show much more. | One of the worst defects for usability of this player, is the user interface truncating ID3 tags: album name, track title, artist name, everything is truncated in player screen. This is very unpleasant, considering the fact that the display would be wide enough to show much more. | ||
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It is also unclear why the image is **sometimes resized correctly** to occupy the entire available space, other times it remains much smaller. | It is also unclear why the image is **sometimes resized correctly** to occupy the entire available space, other times it remains much smaller. | ||
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+ | ===== Sound Recording ===== | ||
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+ | An handy feature is to use the player as a **sound recorder**. It is not clear where is the **inside microphone**: |
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