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Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta
Orangerobot writes "Philips Electronics is undergoing the beta test for the latest model in the Streamium line called the MC-i250. You have to trudge through a cheesy Flash presentation to get all the details, but it looks pretty good: Wi-Fi, CDDB support, online playlist management and more. It looks like they might actually get it right." Reader UVWarning's review of the current generation of Streamium indicates plenty of ways the next generation could improve on the current one.
Aah, any time streaming music (or digital music in general) is brought up, someone always makes the obligatory "Ogg Vorbis" comment. It's getting to be as old as the beowulf cluster jokes. There are several reasons these players will probably never support ogg. The most glaring of these is a limited marketplace. Nobody outside the geek community even knows what ogg is. It has no real advantages over MP3, other than being "free," which most people don't give a flying fuck about.
Ogg is essentially a solution without a problem. MP3 fills the void as a good quality compression scheme, and has been around a lot longer than ogg. I'm not saying they should give up, it's always a nice intellectual exercise to have a choice, but please, PLEASE stop posting the stupid "I wanna see this MP3 technology in ogg!" comments. It's old, we know you envy MP3, but if you want to use the technology, nobody is stopping you from using MP3. I'm sure the streamium format is proprietary anyway, so don't feed me the "but MP3 is proprietary" crap. I'm sure this will be modded down as flamebait, but honestly guys, we're sick of hearing it.
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Too bad CDDB has become a tool of satan, and Freedb doesn't seem to have the developer resources to update its fomat to compete at the same level. *sigh*.
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