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Beta Ogg Vorbis Firmware For The Neuros [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the but-does-it-play-cd-rs dept.

volsung writes "It's finally here! Xiph.org has made a beta release of firmware with Ogg Vorbis support for the Neuros portable music player. You can grab the firmware from the Neurosetta site. Note that this beta release only plays Vorbis files, and may skip on very high quality files, like average bitrates above 200 kbps. Also, you'll need to head over to the positron website for instructions on how to upload Vorbis files. Big thanks go out to Monty all of his hard work, and Digital Innovations for supporting the project. (See the DI press release here.)" Update: 07/01 15:26 GMT by T : Stan Seibert writes with an update: if you'd like to get one of these players, visit open.neurosaudio.com to find them on sale.

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  1. Sanity Check by thelandp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Beta Ogg Vorbis Firmware For The Neuros
    Is it just me, or does it seem a bit wierd the fact that we understand what this sentence means...

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    1. Re:Sanity Check by thanjee · · Score: 5, Funny

      I asked my girlfriend what she thought and all I got was a blank stare. I offered to decipher it, but she declined on technical grounds.

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    2. Re:Sanity Check by thelandp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Apparently in Uzbekistan it means "Please fondle my buttocks."
      You don't want to know what it means in Tajhikstan.

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    3. Re:Sanity Check by rampant+mac · · Score: 4, Funny
      "I asked my girlfriend what she thought and all I got was a blank stare."

      Around here, when you tell people you have a girlfriend, you usually get a blank stare too.

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    4. Re:Sanity Check by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is it just me, or does it seem a bit wierd the fact that we understand what this sentence means...

      I'd like to know what "for" and "the" are supposed to mean, are they TLA's or something?

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    5. Re:Sanity Check by nightsweat · · Score: 3, Funny

      In Tajik, isn't it "Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime"?

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    6. Re:Sanity Check by sean23007 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I asked my girlfriend what she thought and all I got was a blank stare.That, however, is her typical response, seeing as how she's just a picture and all. Oh, did you mean -- riiiight. For a second I thought this was Slashdot...

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  2. Annihilation issues? by grahamlee · · Score: 2, Funny
    positron

    This is the home of positron, the synchronization manager for the Neuros Audio Computer. This software is primarily intended to support Linux, but will probably be portable to other POSIX systems such as OS X and the BSDs. Currently there are USB protocol issues with OS X, so please don't try it there yet.

    The above was taken from a link in the above story. Now, the problem I have is that I own three of these, Acorn Electrons. Can I simultaneously use an Electron and Positron, or am I going to end up annihilating something?

    TIA LOL Me too!!!! etc.

  3. This infringes on SCO property by Chris+Sontag · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am sorry to inform you that "Ogg Vorbis" infringes on SCO copyright. We believe it was developed on the illegal Unix system "Linux" and under our EULA it belongs to us. We plan to file suit immediately.

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  4. Re:High Quality? by eugene_roux · · Score: 2, Funny

    192 Kbps mp3s sound as good as i need em to, I can't imagine needing more than that. -- 3.5 stripes

    "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft

    "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, former chairman of IBM

    There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, former president, former chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation

    Yep, prophets all... <grin>

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  5. That's all well and good ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... but I'm not buying a portable music player until it plays ogg files ...

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  6. Re:High Quality? by n8willis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I for one have neither time nor a contract, but I'm so interested in bitrate peeling that I'm hereby willing to donate the name BitWhittler to the first program that gets off the ground and produces some working code.

    I don't think that that name has been taken by anything else, so I think I made it up. In the Intellectual Property Era, that should be worth a serious tax deduction, too, right?

    N

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