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Rio Announces Networked Ogg Vorbis Player
Alexander writes "Rio has announced several players, among them the Karma 20GB Ogg Vorbis music player, which also sports Ethernet as the preferred connection method. Is Ogg Vorbis finally gaining industry acceptance?" There's more information on the new Rio line-up via an article at The Register.
We'll have to wait for a dupe until ThinkGeek starts selling it..
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Oh, it plays Ogg. Well, if't less then $20 I'll buy it!
but does it play WMP files?
They all look like they were designed by Mike Brady.
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Thank you.
who cares about low bitrates, i want my cd-quality.
...but someone else may donate twice what your share should have been.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
Personally, I'm waiting for a portable player that supports open source codecs from the future.
But does it play...oh, never mind.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
Quickly! To the Stores! Or to the Online Merchant of Your Choice!
Since this is exactly what you've been calling for, I expect this thing to outsell the iPod in a week or two. I mean, Ogg Vorbis is the super format that's been the only thing keeping a legion of geeks from buying an MP3 player, right? Go hang a salami...I mean, hang Interface and Availablity, it's all about the Ogg.
Mind you, if this doesn't sell like hotcakes, well, Vorbis won't have been quite the driving market force that you'd been preaching, will it? So you might want to by 5, just in case. Don't worry, if the market's there, you'll be able to sell them on ebay, sometimes for more than you'd bought them for. If the iPod is any benchmark, that is.
=Brian
There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
Have one? He is one. We build a Slashdot astroturfing bot into each unit -- that's what the Ethernet is for.
Peter
geek-customisable
-This should be a marketing buzzword in a few years.
However, you will only see it used to cover up a bug:
Engineer: I still can't get the user interface to work right.
Marketing person: That's OK, we'll just say it's geek-customisable, for the advanced user.
Imagine the conundrum: Slashdotter cannot be satisfied until making obligatory it-doesn't-have Ogg-support-so-I-wont-buy-it rant.... but it does have Ogg support.
All we need now is for the Microsoft is to file a brief against SCO. Have you ever seen the movie Scanners?