On Saturday 06 August 2005 10:28, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Saturday 06 August 2005 09:58, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On 8/5/05, Synthetic Cartoonz <synthetoonz@bellsouth.net> wrote:
On Friday 05 August 2005 18:31, Steven Pasternak wrote:
Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software)
You mean like an iRiver H140? http://www.iriver.com/html/product/prpa_product.asp?pidx=43
this looks like just what I have been interested in! But ... the entire h100 line appears to have been discontinued. Any ideas why?
It supports an open file format and works very well! They can't do that and get Microsoft to share their DRM secrets can they?
What looks to have replaced it is the h10/20/40 line, and the difference seems to be that it include the "plays for sure" bullsh** and thus only supports wma!
I think there was a very nice rio player that also supported ogg, that similarly is discontinued. this is really starting to bug me ... i pod or M$ or nothing, it appears!
Best Buy currently lists the "Samsung MP3 Player with Color LCD Image Viewer and 20GB* Hard Drive" as being ogg-capable:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6979228&type=product&id=10993 87490036
I didn't think any of this DRM/"Plays For Sure" nonsense could be enforced against ogg files, can it?? I thought it only applied to the Microsoft or IPod proprietary files formats.
Oh, I almost forgot. Best buy also lists a number of iRiver flash players. I bought an i890 for my wife based on how well my iH140 works and was very disappointed. The flash player is very stupid and picky about the Ogg file format. After repeated ripping with different bit speeds and other tweaking, at best I could get only half of the Ogg files to play in the i890. MAYBE the bigger flash models have more brains in them (iFP-900 series), but I can't say.