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Neuros Gets (Beta) Linux Support
Jahf writes "/. reported awhile back that the folks at Digital Innovations (makers of the Neuros portable MP3 player) were teaming up with Xiph.org (makers of the Ogg Vorbis audio format) to release both native Linux support for synchronizing the Neuros and firmware support in the Neuros for Ogg Vorbis files. Today they announced in this forum posting that the native Linux client has reached beta. Nice to see this happen ... I can ditch my last Windows install (well, I'll keep it for a couple of games). It is a command-line utility, no amazing fancy UI, but I'm sure plenty of folks will work to remedy that in some fashion or another and I'm happier with a rock-solid command-line util than a buggy GUI app anyway since I already do all my ripping/encoding/freeDBing/etc from scripts in a shell (so I can just add this as the final step). Next on the list is Ogg Vorbis support ... not done yet but hopefully close. w00t!"
It is a command-line utility, no amazing fancy UI, but I'm sure plenty of sexually repressed geeks will work to remedy that in some fashion.....
Sounds like Linux.
bunch of optimistic pussies. Fuck, why can't you just like Mp3 and DirectX like the rest of us 99%? Enjoy crippled performance, command line guis, and configurations that only the most hardcore would bother to get working. For all the slag you throw windows - at least it works and doesn't crash - unlike any Linux distro I have seen.
--alt-preset standard was introduced in Lame 2.92, and it's far superior to --r3mix. Also, Musepack is generally considered to be the best lossy codec for mid to high bitrates. For low bitrates, nothing beats WMA8/9 (yeah, WMA totally pwnz Vorbis, though Vorbis has never been that great..).
This wouldn't be bofkentucky would it? He wrote some stupid pap in his journal about "Free Thinkers" not being free thinkers because they didn't agree with him. bofkentucky seems to be fine with his cohort group not being "individuals" but complains all over the place when people start getting on his case about his religious beliefs.
BTW... "Objectivists" are all assholes. They claim to follow the path of being completely rational. While an admirable pursuit, it leads to completely unacceptable cruelty to their fellow man. Fuck off Ayn Rand.