Real Player turning off

[TimboT]

Whenever I play mp3's on my zire 71 and put the PDA back in the original case the 5way directional 'nubbin' keeps getting bumped and turning off the music!. Is anyone else having similar issues - anyone got a solution?

Cheers

[Pride Of Lions]

...but my moms said that today she was listening to mp3's and the Zire71 kept turning off on it's own. I don't think she'd put it back into the Zire sleeve, but she said that it kept turning off after every song.

That, and she's having an issue of getting RealPlayer to play her playlists. She's made them, but whenever she taps on them to play them, the RealPlayer keeps sending her to the "Edit Playlist" mode.

I'd love to help her, but I have a Tungsten T with an iPod for my mp3 pleasures and no practical experience with the RealPlayer.

Conundrumed.
POL9A

[PalmZire71]

its normal to have that problem simply because the case is built hard and it is easy to trigger the 5-way nav key. get another case if you want.

[enigma]

or maybe u want to try inserting the z71 upside down into the case.

it might solve ur problem.

[Khey]

The real solution is another MP3 player which is:
"Pocket Tunes is an MP3 player for the Tungsten T, Tungsten C, Zire 71, and future PalmOS 5 devices. Turn your Palm into a portable MP3 player!_ Play compressed audio files (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) or uncompressed WAV files from a flash memory card."

I had the same problems, but with pocket tunes I solved them.

Links:
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?prodID=45900
or directly:
www.pocket-tunes.com

[Khey]

Oh yes, and it is even better than RealOne player.
I noticed that when I was listening MP3s on the RealOne player,
some applications were running a "bit" slow (like drawing on the screen in Note application), but with Pocket tunes, they don't.
You can even listen to MP3s while taking photos (RealOne shuts down, when silver cover is opened).

/*yea I know, I sound like the guy from commericals */

[TimboT]

Fantastic!!
PocketTunes Kicks Real Players butt...

Thanks for the good advice! :)

[vanquish]

Pride Of Lions -

Ask your mom if the little arrow to the slider which shows where you are in the song is on. Once you click it then it should turn blue and when gets to the end of a song it will go on to the next one.

For the other part with the playlist, you have to click on the playlist you want then click on the 1st song to make it start there, at least that's what mine does.


vanquish

[Pride Of Lions]

You know, I maybe should've reported an update to my mom's trials and tribulations.

So, the last time I'd posted on this thread my mom's had just told me that her mp3 player didn't work well. She was so jazzed to get it going so it could keep her company on her long drive home (we'd just gotten her a 256MB SD card to put a buncha songs onto) and when she called me that she was home I asked her, "So, how was the music?" She said that it didn't work and blah blah blah....

Now she is entirely capable of coming onto this forum and posting her own experiences, but she's not as techie as me and frankly she's concerned that people here will "out" her for a "newbie" and shun her very existence.

But then I told her that it's just a buncha people who lean on each other's shared experiences and grow as a community.
We're finally at a point where she'll visit from time to time.

All that said, I posted her prob's because I wanted to hurry up and get a solution so that I wouldn't keep getting asked how to fix whatever that I'm not involved in. Peace of mind, a purely selfish motive.

Anyway, a few days later she said, "Wow! I really like my mp3 player." Somehow she found a way to make it work and I was loathe to upset her equipoise by introducing any other advice. Plus, I was just so proud of her for answering her own techie questions herself. Moms, they're so cute at that age.

So, thanks again vanquish, but she's well on her way to mp3 nirvana. (But not quite to mp3's of "Nirvana." :D .

For every question she figures out on her own, that's 1.1 million questions less for me to hear from her,
POL9A