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Ogg/Vorbis on Palm OS

Posted by michael on from the music-on-the-go dept.

loshwomp writes "We have built an audio player for Palm OS, and a public beta is available now. The beta includes support for Ogg/Vorbis audio, and a future beta will include plug-ins for more formats, as well as the plug-in SDK itself."

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  1. Lots of fun by p00kiethebear · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This should prove to be really usefull to me since i just converted all of my music to ogg. I can't wait to download it!

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  2. processor intensive? by absurdhero · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are Palms high performance or has the OGG/Vorbis decoder gotten a lot less processor intensive, I wonder?

    1. Re:processor intensive? by VersedM · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Easy or not, they are the ones who (apparently) did it *first*, and that's newsworthy.

  3. Why no Clie support? by AnimalSnf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As one of many Clie owners (N760C) that visited that page, I am curious as to why I need to email some guy at Sony to be able to use this player. As far as I understand programs written for Palm 5 today are still compiled for RISC ISA, and the sound API on Clies is documented, so what's the holdup?

  4. Re:Regardless of speed, ram space; Still just a to by Enfors · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Eh? Why wouldn't we? I pretty much always carry my Clie with me (which has built-in MP3 support, and a 128MB memory stick), so it's always right there in my pocket when I feel like listening to my favourite tunes.

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  5. thanks, but no thanks. by nuckin+futs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    for $500 I can get the palm zire and a 10gig iPod. i'll just wait until the iPod supports ogg. With 10 gigs of space, just encode your music at 320kbps to get the same quality as ogg.

  6. Re:PalmOS 5.0 only... by 0ptimus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The one very important difference between Windows CE and Palm OS is that Windows CE works much like any other version of Windows. Files are loaded off of disk (in this case, a flash disk) and into memory to execute. Palm OS, on the other hand, designed for PDAs, knew that the actual files would be stored in memory on the device anyways, so it executes the program in place, with no need for additional RAM to load a copy of the program into.

    That is why Palm's do not need the same enourmous RAM banks that CE machines have.