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Neuros Review

Posted by michael on from the looking-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MP3newswire.net has just posted a lengthy review of the Neuros digital music portable. Just recently the company announced native Linux support for synchronizing the Neuros and we all know that Ogg Vorbis support is promised in the near future, so the unit is drawing a lot of interest. For the most part they liked the player, though they found the unit to be relatively big and heavy for a new generation portable. They also found the file transfer interface to be both impressive and glitchy."

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  1. promises promises. by Ishin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ogg support? I wouldn't buy one UNTIL they actually have the support up and running.

  2. Re:Submit Feedback! Get ogg support on iPods too! by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let them know your future business depends on it!

    Not to try and flame you, but isn't that a bit of an empty threat at the moment, considering ogg-vorbis mindshare in the general public?

    It'd be a nice "geek" feature, i'm sure, but I don't think it's really at the level where Apple will take lost business because of it very seriously.

  3. Just make it work by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I am willing to make some sacrifices to support a linux-friendly platform. I am willing to spend a bit more. I am willing to deal with some product design issues (size, etc).

    Just make it work. I want a 100% certainty that I will be able to migrate music from my linux box to the player. No message board lurking, no sifting through google groups.

    If this product cannot reliably transfer music without copious under the hood tweaking, I am not interested.

    USB 2.0 would be a nice addition too but even on that I will make accomodation.

  4. Re:Submit Feedback! Get ogg support on iPods too! by elmegil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    apple is already a niche player, what makes you think expanding to other niches isn't important to them?

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  5. Unix user marketshare IS important. by numbski · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Otherwise I wouldn't see full-page magazine ads touting 'the power unix', and giving details on power-user experiences converting from (insert your unix flavor here) to OSX.

    Don't underestimate yourself before you make an effort at asserting what you want. You just never know...

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  6. Re:Same price as 15gb iPod by Drakonian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think there are features other than capacity that equate to more value for your money. Size is definitely one.

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  7. Re:Submit Feedback! Get ogg support on iPods too! by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about the fact that two years ago, there was no Apple iPod, and now roughly 1 in 4 portable music players is an iPod?

    Or the fact that until two months ago WMA was second to MP3, in marketshare, but now (with something like 3 million tracks sold) AAC is #2, despite only 3% of the potential market?

    So far, far, more unlikely things have happened than Apple support Ogg; I mean, Apple supported MP3, right?

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