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Creative Zen Micro Ships Today

Posted by michael on from the rock-garden-optional dept.

SpaFF writes "Today Amazon started shipping the shipping the Zen Micro, Creative's answer to the Ipod-mini and one of several touted 'ipod-killers' due out for the holiday season. Sporting 5GB of space, a form-factor similar to the Ipod-mini, built-in FM radio, and a REMOVABLE battery, the Zen Micro looks quite promising. Does anyone know if this thing will work with Linux?"

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  1. One of the reasons by Pacifix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that iPods are so powerful is that it's coupled with the Apple music store. The seamless intergration between reasonable prices and DMR and synching with the iPod is hard to beat. Do any of the new iPod killers have comparable connections to music management software/store? My old MP3 player required MusicMatch, which sucked.

  2. It's kind of ugly.. by mrseigen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not as bad as the mini Dell DJ, but part of the appeal of the iPod is, the simple and minimal appearance. This thing looks like a sci-fi explosion, like most MP3 players these days.

    The battery life is a bit worse, too.

  3. What's up with the ads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First it was all the viral marketing. Now we're just getting straight up ads? With referral links to benefit the poster? What happened Slashdot?

  4. Re:iPod killer? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is made to compete with the iPod Mini, which only has 4Gb of storage space...so it's actually larger in terms of storage space. Both products cost $250 and come in similar sizes.

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  5. Re:OggVorbis Support? by garcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It doesn't really matter if you understand why all us crazy geeks like ogg, but if you're a company making portable music devices and want our business, you damn well better know that we do in fact want it.

    See, that's the problem. I don't use OGG because it's a worthless format (the same with MP3, etc). I perfer SHN/FLAC. Do I complain that very few players support SHN/FLAC playback? No. Is it my #1 priority when I am looking for a portable music device? No.

    Covert between the two.

    You can't have all the formats you want and inexpensive pricing. It just doesn't work like that.