Re: Genica (was: Re: MP3 players)
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> Wow, I'd love to get one of those toys, but I still have some
> questions which I'd be very grateful if you could answer:
>
> 1 - How does it deal with directories? Does it have any
> navigation mode? And how about files that have very long
> names (I'm thinking of burning CDs with Linux, of course,
> making the ISOs with mkisofs);
I don't think long file names are a problem. Remember that most OS's
these days support that. ;-) Most of the CDs I ever made were under
NT. Long filenames galore. The navigation is great. You can skip
directories, files, anything.
> 2 - Does it play Variable Bit Rate MP3s?
> 3 - What happens if it is told to play a file that is not an
> MP3 (say, a .txt file that ended being included on my
> ISO)?
I believe that it ignores anything non-MP3. Check out
<http://www.genica.com/Mp3-Tavarua.htm>. It even has the manual
online. You can see it all. Read reviews, too. They love it. One
fault everyone has is that it feels cheap. And no read-out of track
names, just numbers. They say that the next generation should have
more of a display. But you are getting a 650 meg MP3 player for less
than $100. Worth it. One reason I got it was that I could totally
see a big company buying the rights to it and then selling it for at
least three times what the Genica is sold for.
-Ken
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