60G Nomad Zen vs. The iPod

war3rd writes "According to an article in BetaNews, Creative is going to be releasing an upgraded Nomad Zen at the end of the month that is not only larger than the iPod, but cheaper too. At $400 for 60G ($100 less than the 30G iPod), the new Zen will sport more features, although it may be slightly larger than the newer generation of iPods. I have been putting off buying an MP3 player until I felt that the arms race was settling down, but the new Zen is making my mouth water. So what does the /. community think, are Creative and Apple going to be the top players in this arena? Is it time I jumped onto the bandwagon? One thing is for certain, I am going to be watching the reviews closely."

Comments

No OGG support.

[Jeedo]

Personally i am not going to buy this product or any other audio player until i get support for my music files. Which are most in OGG Vorbis format.

I really would jump at the first audio player with OGG support, or flash ROM so i could add it myself.

Any tech-knowhow people here know why there is so little support in general for other audio formats? I heard somewhere that it was a problem of OGG taking up more FPU Power than other formats like MP3 anyone care to comment on that?

Re:Why you want huge disks

[Jack Comics]

If you have 40 gigabytes of music, either you're the RIAA poster boy or you're on one of their "Top Ten Most Wanted" list. I just can not conceivably see anyone having 40 gigabytes worth of lossy codec music. I ripped and encoded my entire CD collection that I've accumulated over the past nine years into Musepack quality 8, and my entire collection is less than 10 gigabytes. And some people claim that Musepack/MPC files are some of the largest in file size out of the lossy codec group.