On my test run of Vista, one of my plain IDE HDD's mysteriously powers off every couple hours. It makes a horrible whining as it spins back up. Nothing like that has ever happened to me in XP or Ubuntu. No anomalies reported by SMART monitoring tools. None of my other drives do this. Well, which drive is it? My audio storage drive with 300GB of lossless music (my own discs legally backed-up with Exact Audio Copy!) Coincidence? When you mess with *.flac, you mess with me. Then I format your partition.:)
Will this be a triple-standard disc, or standardless? It reminds me of those DualDiscs that the record companies tout as having a CD side and a DVD side. Guess what? The "CD side" is not a Compact Disc at all, it fails to meet the Red Book standards and therefore won't play in all CD players. Actually, because of the extra thickness of the disc, they can jam up or damage slot-loading players. The same problems could doom this triple format.
Good old Rio Karma does (all flac's levels 0-8)... as well as mp3, Ogg Vorbis, and, most prominently for me, gapless playback for all of these formats. Oh yeah, and it's platform-independent with a network jack in the dock and the Java version of Rio's Music Manager software. When oh when will another player with these features hit the market?
It has a far superior interface to iPod, IMHO, with it's nipple joystick/scroll wheel combination. It's also upgradable to 30GB (no Dremel required), 40GB http://forums-riovolution.com/index.php?showtopic= 7017 (Dremel required;) and now there's 60GB Hitachi drives in the same form factor as the 40GB.
I haven't had a HDD go bad, or had those notorious 'unrecognized errors' since I upgraded the software.
I'd still rather have my Karma than any iPod.
Now if only it had a shiny, pretty, machined-aluminum case.
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On my test run of Vista, one of my plain IDE HDD's mysteriously powers off every couple hours. It makes a horrible whining as it spins back up. :)
Nothing like that has ever happened to me in XP or Ubuntu. No anomalies reported by SMART monitoring tools. None of my other drives do this.
Well, which drive is it? My audio storage drive with 300GB of lossless music (my own discs legally backed-up with Exact Audio Copy!)
Coincidence?
When you mess with *.flac, you mess with me. Then I format your partition.
Will this be a triple-standard disc, or standardless?
It reminds me of those DualDiscs that the record companies tout as having a CD side and a DVD side. Guess what? The "CD side" is not a Compact Disc at all, it fails to meet the Red Book standards and therefore won't play in all CD players. Actually, because of the extra thickness of the disc, they can jam up or damage slot-loading players.
The same problems could doom this triple format.
Good old Rio Karma does (all flac's levels 0-8)... as well as mp3, Ogg Vorbis, and, most prominently for me, gapless playback for all of these formats. Oh yeah, and it's platform-independent with a network jack in the dock and the Java version of Rio's Music Manager software. When oh when will another player with these features hit the market?
= 7017 (Dremel required ;) and now there's 60GB Hitachi drives in the same form factor as the 40GB.
It has a far superior interface to iPod, IMHO, with it's nipple joystick/scroll wheel combination. It's also upgradable to 30GB (no Dremel required), 40GB http://forums-riovolution.com/index.php?showtopic
I haven't had a HDD go bad, or had those notorious 'unrecognized errors' since I upgraded the software.
I'd still rather have my Karma than any iPod.
Now if only it had a shiny, pretty, machined-aluminum case.