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Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out

Posted by timothy on from the feature-rich-environment dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "It seems that the long awaited Jukebox 3 is officially out. Features include time scaling, to play files at different speeds without affecting pitch, multichannel effects, optical input, wireless remote and two battery ports. Probably not an iPod killer yet, although it has many, many more features and welcome firewire port. Now when will this thing be available?"

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  1. Re:Required equipment not included??? by Fletch · · Score: 3, Informative

    it is real IEEE1394. it's just passed their audigy firewire port compatibility tests, so it's called sb1394.

    it should work with any other IEEE1394 card you might have.

  2. Re:Exactly by John_Booty · · Score: 3, Informative

    From everything I've read, including posts from the Ogg guys, the Ogg decoding algorithm requires floating-point math, something small embedded processors typically don't have. This isn't the case with mp3's.

    I bet the hardware manufacturers would love to implement Ogg- I doubt they like paying licensing fees to Microsoft and Franhofer (sp?) for WMA and MP3 licenses.

    I believe the Ogg guy(s) are working on a decoding algorithm that doesn't require floating-point math. I'm out of touch with Ogg land though... check their site.

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  3. Nomad 3 Review by asv108 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The first hands on review of the nomad 3 is available here.