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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. Did Nomad Pay for This? by Cheshire+Cat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't mean this as a flame, but articles like this do beg the question of whether or not advertisers are paying to have the products promoted as a Slashdot story. Especially when there's nothing really that insightful here. Furthermore given the financial strugges of Slashdot's parent company, its not unthinkable to see them accepting advertising funds in exchange for Slashdot hits.

    Just wondering, I guess....

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    1. Re:Did Nomad Pay for This? by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Interesting

      articles like this do beg the question of whether or not advertisers are paying to have the products promoted as a Slashdot story

      As someone who has sent a product to Slashdot for review, let me tell you that this is *not* how it works. These guys like gadgets, and they consider product announcements to be worthy of "news for nerds". Judging by the number of comments attached these stories, most slashdot readers agree. That's why you see a lot of MP3 and PVR related stories.

      We didn't pay slashdot to review the SliMP3. All cmdrTaco got out of it was a free prototype. I wasn't even the one who submitted the original story about my project. Somebody just found us on the web, and submitted a story. That's usually how slshdot works. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't see the slashdot effect - don't you think sites would prepare for the traffic if they knew a story was coming out?

  2. Total cost to Canadians... by neksys · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lets see.... $21 per gigabyte, if this tariff passes. $21 * 20 = $420 + retail. Somehow I doubt Canadian consumers are going to be shelling out around $1000 for something like this. How long before companies like Creative step in to try to put a stop to our new proposed levies?

    1. Re:Total cost to Canadians... by Linuxthess · · Score: 2, Interesting
      Technically it can't be called blank media if they put one short sound clip extolling "Your brand-new Nomad blah blah blah, go everywhere with music you have never gone before, blah blah blah"

      Then you can let the tarrif be a bygone. I know it doesn't work in the long run (because they probaly will then rewrite the law to close that loophole) and also because it doesn't address the tarrif for CD-R/W discs.

      But mostly, you guys over that imaginary line called "border" have my fullest sympathy, and encourage you guys to do what you can before this rediculous-ness catches on here in the good ol' US of RIAA.

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  3. Alternative third-party software for the Jukebox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot of people who have used the original Nomad Jukebox do not like the software that comes with it called PlayCenter. An alternative that has become very popular in the Nomad community is Notmad Explorer.

    It provides full Windows Explorer integration, access to the Jukebox via a built-in webserver, and search and report generation features using a built-in SQL database.

    There's a free trial version. Notmad Explorer is also mentioned in the first full review of the Jukebox3 at TBREAK.com.

  4. Still no Ogg Vorbis by bmw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to their page it seems to only support WMA, MP3, and WAV formats.

    I'm aware that Ogg Vorbis hasn't reached 1.0 yet, but still, you'd think they could include support for it pretty easily. Anyone know if you can upgrade the software on these things? Their site doesn't mention anything about it.

  5. Re:Exactly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Free vorbis decoders use floating point.

    Portal players use integers.

    There aren't integer vorbis decoders that are free (beer or speech).