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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. High Quality? by Mirell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What sort of portable system are you going to play it on that over 200 Kbps would even make a difference?

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  2. beta functionality by pytheron · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to neurosaudio, this beta firmware upgrade will disable mp3 playback support. You can have one, but not the other. Looks like it would be better to wait until the beta stage has been passed before upgrading your firmware, since this will be resolved in later releases.

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  3. 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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  4. Having Vorbis support has guaranteed a sale to me by Quizo69 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since changing to Ogg Vorbis encoding early this year I've been very impressed with the space savings and quality over MP3. I have since re-encoded most of my CDs into Ogg format and thanks to the team at Neuros supporting Ogg, I plan to buy one of the 128MB units with the addon 20GB hard drive in the near future based on that feature alone.

    With its FM transmitter as well, I look forward to taking my entire 8GB of music on the road with me to listen to non-stop on long journeys.

    This is a clear example of the customer buying a product because it offers what WE want, not what corporations dictate we should have.

    Well done to Neuros Audio, for looking after the geeks, because it is our recommendations that often lead to many others buying a tech product that otherwise may not get so much exposure.

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