No Levy on iPods in Canada

colinemckay writes "The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music devices ended Thursday when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter. That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple's popular iPod and iPod Shuffle as well as other MP3 players like iRiver."

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IRiver and XClef vs iPod

[nickrooster]

I find that, for the money, the iRiver is a much better player and has many more features. I have an iHP-140, and the things it has built-in that a standard 40GB iPod does not have are: A) Vorbis support - the best (in my audiophile and freedom-loving opinion) lossy format! http://vorbis.com/ MP3s distort the high and low end a *lot*. Makes songs sound awful. But everyone loves .mp3 for some reason... weird. B) FM tuner - Not that I *listen* to the radio C) Built in recording support as either .wav or .mp3 - and the ability to use an external mike. D) Shows up as a USB Mass-storage device on every operating system - so you don't need any crappy proprietary software to get access to *your* data! Besides, you have music players and jukeboxes on your machine already, right? E) Long battery life - mine lasts 13 - 16 hours playing 256K vorbis files, after owning it for more than a year. F?) Not sure if iPod has this, but optical output as well as analog. Awesome sound quality. G) Other codec support - .wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3. Check it out if you are thinking of buying a music player - http://www.iriveramerica.com/ Also check out the XClef, who's main feature is that it has a *lot* of storage space. The largest I have seen was 100GB. Disadvantage is that it is shaped like 1/2 of a brick. http://xclef.com/pro03_e.htm This is the up to, apparently, 137GB model. -Nick