iRiver Preps Linux-based Media Player

Mr_Silver writes "Infosync is reporting that iRiver is soon to release the Linux based PMP-120 media player which through its colour screen can support MP3, ASF, Ogg Vorbis, JPEG, BMP, AVI, MP4, DivX 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, XviD, MPEG4 SP, Advanced SP and MPEG1. Technically very cool (even more so if it is hackable), but really really ugly. iRiver really should learn how to design nice looking hardware from the experts."

Comments

The last time i-River tried to do that...

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple threatened to sue them. i-River had wanted to use a the rounded scroll navigation wheel with their ihp-120, Apple told them they would legal action to protect their intellectual property rights.

iRiver Looks

[afra242]

I recently bought the 40Gb MP3 player from iRiver. To me, looks of an electronic device doesn't really matter. I just want the features. Simple as that. Compared to the iPod, the iRiver has superb battery life, more hard drive space for the buck, built in voice recorder, and even a AM/FM tuner. Plus it plays OGG and using Linux, I can index all my music files.

So what iRiver lacks in looks, they more than make up for it in features and cost compared to the iPod.

All I need is a scroll button and play/stop/fast/rewind buttons.

Re:OGG - From the /. blurb no less!

[MrEd]

...through its colour screen can support MP3, ASF, Ogg Vorbis...

So go buy one! Or go buy the iMP-250, 350, 550, etc. etc. which all support Ogg Vorbis (even the old iMP-250 aka Rio Volt 2) through firmware updates...

There's nothing wrong with iRiver products

[gorbachev]

I own one of their cd based mp3 players, and that thing is the best portable cd player I've ever used. Its user friendliness, firmware updates and general quality of construction is unbeatable.

The only problem with the unit in question here, apparently, is that it doesn't look like an iPod. Duh.

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