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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. CD player upgrade due in January, too ... by timothy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the IMP series (though not sure which models) is what I'm waiting for. If that wasn't promised, I'd try to find a reader in Korea who'd be willing to help me import a Samsung Yepp ogg-capable CD player.

    Shame about the 96kbs floor, though -- that's far more than I need for audiobooks. Still, CDs are cheap enough I should not complain.

    timothy

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  2. Expandable? by abischof · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It appears that these players only have internal flash memory. So, I'm guessing that they're not expandable?

    In any case, are these Mac compatible? If they can be setup as a universal-storage USB device (?), I would think so.

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  3. Re:What Increase Does This Represent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Playing ogg-files isn't diffcult as far as I know ...on the vorbis website there is a link to a website that contains a plugin for media player that lets it play ogg-files. I think it should work. So, giving them the ability to play ogg-files is not so difficult I think. (winamp has built-in suppot for it, don't know from which version). So, you can exchange ogg-files with them, with not much setup-work.

    searched the link:

    http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm

    and for the rest on the vorbis-site:
    http://www.vorbis.com/software.psp?p id=2

  4. Stupid iRiver. I love you so. by NeGz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bought myself a sexy iMP 350 about a year ago, and last night negotiated it's sale hoping to put the money towards a Creative Zen Xtra 30gb or MuVo2 1.5gb (anyone know somewhere in America that ships these internationally?) but now I'm having second thoughts.

    I love to put alot of research into products before I buy them, and the iRiver is one of the few products I've come across with *very* few negative reviews. It makes changing to a newer player kind of unnerving, especially with the kind of dedication the Firmware developers are putting in. Actually listening to customer requests.

    Incidentally, if any iRiver reps are listening, (IMO) you really need to redesign your HDD players, the features are so nice, but the design is so poor. Why an LCD on the main unit with the quality of iRiver remotes?

  5. Speex would be nice too by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I use an i-Bead MP3/FM/Voice thingy to its full and record a lot of stuff on it (no ogg support yet though). I use it as a revision aid.

    For recording voice & FM it would be great to have a decent speech encoder instead of the inefficient ADPCM WAV available. If Vorbis only goes down to 96kbps on this thing then that is not suitable for voice. In fact, Vorbis is just about OK for voice at 8kbps (I tried it) but obviously Speex would be better.

    If the i-River had this facility I'd buy definitely buy it. But, as I already have an i-Bead, I'm not sure I can justify the expensive of just Vorbis.