does a commercial ogg-enabled "mp3-player" exist?

Kim Briggs patiodragon at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 01:58:47 UTC 2005


On 12/11/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:03:07PM -0400, Michael Head wrote:
> > Unfortunately, it looks like it's been discontinued. Their only product
> > anymore is an mpeg4 set top box.
>
> That's not true. See, e.g., their front page, which includes
> a link to this 80-gig player:
> http://www.neurosaudio.com/store/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=DigitalInnovationsCatalog&product%5Fid=4020201&keyword=4020201&searchcat=products&cookie%5Ftest=1
>
> I've been looking into buying it,
>
> a) because my whole music collection is in Ogg, not MP3, and
>    I don't want to convert 11,000 Oggs to MP3;
>
I've been looking at some of these.  One claims to have a 50hr battery
life!  They are the only ones I found that specifically say they are
supported under linux ("data only" blah blah...)

http://onlinestore.jetaudio.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=58

I also think the iRiver models support ogg format.

cheers,
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