Neuros Audio Releases Its Hardware Schematics

iswm writes "Neuros Audio has released the schematics to their Neuros Digital Audio Computer. Now with open source firmware, hardware schematics, ogg support, tons of other cool features, and an amazing price tag, The Neuros is looking like an awesome competitor in the audio player market."

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as a former neuros owner

[whiteSanjuro]

i can assure you that the current state of the machine is horrible. yes, it has great potential, but at the moment it is unrealized, and the hardware, although cool, is not flawless. specifically:

• the headphone output is rather noisy
• the FM broadcasting is weak
• there isn't any form of spdif (input or output)
• the menu system is slow to respond
• no gapless playback
• navigation and synching are tedious on either the pc or player side
• synch software is quirky to use (win32)
• the flash memory player seperated from the hd backpack is cool, but the backpack is flipping huge and heavy
• the battery does not last very long
• the most important feature to me, ogg vorbis playback, does not work without glitches unless your bitrate is less than 4

the hardware issues are not going to go away, and i have seen no progress made on any of the software issues. yes its great that the design is open and the software runs in linux and the firmware is open, but it currently does not operate as advertised, so i returned mine very sad. until rio releases a karma with a bigger hard drive that does not explode, shows up as a USB mass storage device, allows sorting by folders, and adds an SD card, i will be using my laptop.

Re:MP3 Support? No thanks.

[twitter]

An audio player that meets your needs, but now that's not good enough.

That's not what I said. I said I wanted something that does not exist right now. I'm sure this is a fine player and I like that it has built in FM radio. If it has zero DRM built into, I'm really enthused. What did I just buy for my wife? A 20GB Iriver. It was smaller.

You want one that _only_ plays ogg? I'm a _huge_ fan and supporter of ogg, and you're really not helping any, please stop now.

Yes, I want a player that only supports ogg because it will be cheaper. What's wrong with that? Choice is good, right? Save your negativity for someone who boosts WMA only players.