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Re: Portable OGG Player



On Friday, 26.08.2005 at 22:02 +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > Stephen Tait:
> > > At 14:33 26/08/2005, Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs?
> > >> My rio karma crapped out and they just gave me my money back, now I
> > >> don't have a player any more. :(
> > > >
> > > My friend and I have been very happy with our iRivers. The HP1** and 4** 
> 
> yes but stear clear of the iriver 100,300,700,800 and 900 series of the
> flash based players. They can only do bit rates of 96-225 kbps for Ogg
> files due to hardware limitations. And people are reporting problems
> even within this range... I thought Iriver took Ogg support seriously
> :-(

"Only" that range of bit-rates?  Why would you want anything outside
that range?  222kbps is *way* more than you need for decent quality and
a low end of 96kbps is starting to sound poor, I guess.  What were you
expecting?

Dave.
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