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Company Solicits Feedback on Next-Gen Recorder

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the consumer-feedback-a-novel-concept dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to LinuxDevices.com a multimedia device vendor has asked the open-source community to help define its next product, a Linux-based handheld portable media player/recorder (PMP/R) featuring audiophile-quality sound. The new product is a successor to the popular Neuros 442 PMP/R. Neuros has published the specs for a development board it calls the first prototype, and has asked hackers, open-source software authors, and others to review and weigh in on the design, which is expected to be finalized in the near future."

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  1. Needs one or two things .. by torpor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    {disclaimer: i work for a pro digital audio company.}

    as a long-time linux hacker, musician, synthesist, and audio geek, this device screams out for one thing: MIDI.

    yes, thats right, MIDI. give me a way to control it from a MIDI keyboard, give me a compiler onboard, stand back and watch the new softsynth plugin realm expand beyond that of VST et al..

    course, i've got my own plans for such things too, but i'll save that for a future /. thread ..

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  2. Heh by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...featuring audiophile-quality sound.

    You mean it costs five times as much, but sounds exactly the same to everybody who isn't trying to justify their ridiculously expensive hobby? :)

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  3. What I want by onyxruby · · Score: 4, Interesting
    What I want to see:

    USB 2.0 port - full size please!

    Infrared

    Color!

    4 GB hard disk

    Flash card reader

    Scratch resistant coating

    Volume knob

    Mini joystick similiar to gamepad

    Make sure I can plug it in as a mass media drive without special drivers etc

    Line in for audio

    Rubber bumbers for shock protection

    Rubber back for good grip

    Built in modem for dial up when traveling

    1. Re:What I want by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Informative

      Since their previous device is colour, it would be insane for this one not to be. Almost as insane as putting the 4Gb drive from your wants list in to replace the 40Gb one the old device shipped with!

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  4. Main requirement for the UK ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Main requirement for the UK is for this to be sold at a price that reflects the real dollar-pound exchange rate, instead of converting US$400 into 400 UK pounds like the blood-sucking middlemen typically do for gadgets.

  5. Re:audiophile-quality sound by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it just me or two the terms "Audiophile-quality" and "handheld" mutually exclusive?

    Although I guess if they can market it with wank words like 'oxygen impregnated battery interconnects to reduce the harmonics of the batteries natural resonance" and then charge $4000 for it, then I guess audiophiles might buy it ;)

    But on a serious note, I guess to get close to that sort of sound quality I would expect the latest and greated chip like the new creative xfi chip? I dunno. Audiophile I am not.

  6. Essential by Frantactical+Fruke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Must run on an ethanol converter cell - so I can drink the battery when things get desperate. A side pocket for a lemon slice and an olive would be good, too.