My Gigabeat: "Hidden" Tips and Tricks for your Gigabeat...

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

"Hidden" Tips and Tricks for your Gigabeat...

Decided to bump this post for all new gigabeat owners.

I recenlty posted in the forum that the manual indeed does list the "Slide left to right" and "Slide bottom to top" quick navigation trick. Well I was wrong, and I realized that I found out about this trick way back in January when I first saw the Gigabeat at CES in Las Vegas. One of the guys in the Toshiba booth showed me how to use the Gigabeat.

So what is this slide left and slide to the top all about?

While looking at the "Now Playing" screen on your Gigabeat you can slide your finger with firm pressure from the BOTTOM of the cross to the TOP. You will notice that this takes you into the Main Menu. The is an excellent and for some reason not documented way to quickly navigate to the main menu without having to use the power button.

Once you make it into the Main Menu you can quickly get back to the Play Now screen, no matter where in the Main Menu system your are, by firmly sliding you finger from the LEFT to the RIGHT on the cross.

If you are on the Play Now screen you can slide from the RIGHT to the LEFT and you will get the list of songs on the current Album or Playlist.

Thanks Nate for the tip and also for pointing out my problem with lefts and rights :)

If you guys have found some more Tips and Tricks that makes your use of the Gigabeat easier please post them in the forum. I have created a Tips and Tricks tread in the forum.

posted by Tomas @ 10:06 AM

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12 Comments:

Anonymous said...: GREAT TIP, i ALSO SORT OF STUMBLED ONTO THIS TRICK THE OTHER NIGHT, BUT i NEVER QUIT FIGURED IT OUT. iT ONLY WORKED AT RANDOM CUZ i WAS DOING IT FROM THE CENTER AND OUT. tHANKS FOR SHOWING US THE WAY; Fri Apr 21, 10:29:00 PM 2006
Anonymous said...: I'm sooo glad I found this out. I was getting really frustrated; Sun May 21, 08:28:00 PM 2006
Anonymous said...: If you slide from the top to the bottom, it goes to the setup screen. Not all that helpful but it's good to know.; Wed Jun 21, 06:35:00 PM 2006
Anonymous said...: I *knew* there had to be an easy way to exit the main menu screen... I'd been using the play/pause button on the in-line remote :-P. This is great to know, seriously up's the functionality of my player! Thanks!; Wed Jun 28, 02:01:00 PM 2006
diger said...: thx.; Mon Jul 03, 07:58:00 AM 2006
Twyla said...: Dude!!! That's such a good thing to know. I've been really frustrated with that!; Tue Jul 25, 11:00:00 AM 2006
Anonymous said...: Like the others said: Great tip! Thanks alot!; Sat Aug 26, 10:29:00 AM 2006
Anonymous said...: Also press thw power button for a second. Brings you from Now Playing to Main Menu.:); Sat Sep 16, 09:01:00 AM 2006
Bowlerguy92 said...: You should also add that up to down gives you settings.; Fri Dec 15, 01:29:00 PM 2006
Anonymous said...: Rockbox is finally ported to Gigabeat F and X series. Now you can play Movies on your fav. player.
visit www . rockbox .org to rockon!!!

Another tip.. to Fast forward or rewind a song press the and hold the Left or Right Arrow respectively..

Dpk; Tue Jan 09, 06:25:00 AM 2007
Anonymous said...: UN CONSEJO MUY UTIL, DE VERDAD MUCHAS GRACIAS, DE CAUSALIDAD HABLAS ESPAÑOL???; Wed Jun 20, 07:55:00 AM 2007
John said...: anonymous, did you say that the rockbox firmware lets you do video on the gigabeat F series?; Tue Aug 07, 12:44:00 PM 2007