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iRiver Adds Ogg To Audio Player Firmware

Posted by simoniker on from the oi-oi-oi dept.

Sesse writes "iRiver has just released firmware updates for its iFP-300T and iFP-500T flash memory-based audio player series. According to a news story on their site, this update includes features 'supporting the Ogg file format', so it looks like iRiver can finally be added to the quickly growing list of Vorbis-capable hardware!"

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  1. Not a new thing for iRiver! by justinarthur · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please note that iRiver has actually had a multimedia player capable of playing OGG Vorbis files for quite some time now. I refer to their iHP-120, their 20GB hard drive player. Nevertheless, it's nice to see OGG Vorbis support on their flash devices as well now.

  2. Re:iRiver sure, but what about Apple? by phoxix · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't believe people ask this question over and over again

    Apple's Ipod uses dedicated MP3 decoder and controller chip from PortalPlayer ...

    You can read all about the innards at: Inside The Apple Ipod Design Triumph

    I'm not even an Ipod fan and I know this

    Sunny Dubey

  3. About Ogg support for their other devices by lintux · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here you can see a list of all the devices they want to implement Ogg support for sooner or later. For some of the devices, it's never going to happen because of hardware limitations.

    As someone else here already said, the iMP-400 and iMP-550 (IIRC) will get Ogg support in January. I'm certainly looking forward to it. As soon as they release the firmware, I'm going to buy one of those devices, I guess.

    It looks like some things didn't really go as planned, with the iFP-300 support coming so quickly. But hey, isn't that good? :-)