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2 · Post by 2 » Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:55 pm

Have you a tip on a good mp3 player with ogg support?

Post by **dann** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 3:32 pm

this is a tough request. The iRivers do play ogg, but support is very limited requiring a high bit rate resulting in extremely large files.

You can check out this page:

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers

Post by **Patrick** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:47 am

This looks promising:
http://www.iops.co.kr/enghome/product_x_5_01.html

Korean company. Wonder if they're available stateside?

Post by **Patrick** » Fri May 27, 2005 12:24 pm

Someone on the LUG Radio boards posted this player:
http://www.advancedmp3players.co.uk/sho ... cts_id=534
http://store.yahoo.com/cooljunkbiz/ibead400.html

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:36 am

I just got an iAudio M3. It is awesome. Not only does it have Ogg Vorbis support it can Voice/Line In/FM record and its smaller than an iPod. It works perfectly on Linux too. It just automounted for me and I could drop in my audio files.

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:54 pm

Good stuff mate.

Whats the damage on that unit ?? What storage capacity ??

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:14 am

CptnObvious999 wrote:I just got an iAudio M3. It is awesome.

Got a link?

mrben · Post by **mrben** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:31 am

Patrick wrote:
CptnObvious999 wrote:I just got an iAudio M3. It is awesome.
Got a link?

/me points Patrick to Google......

http://www.iaudio.com

DaveQB · Post by **DaveQB** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:46 am

Damn! The U2 is 359 bucks!!
http://www.gadgets.com.au/processtype.a ... cessType=1

It wanna be a great player.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 6:55 am

New Egg has them in stock:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi ... x=0&Go.y=0

$119 for the 512meg U2
$169 for the 1gig U2

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:35 am

DaveQB wrote:Damn! The U2 is 359 bucks!!
http://www.gadgets.com.au/processtype.a ... cessType=1

It wanna be a great player.

I got my M3 used for $200. It has some small scratching on the screen and the case smells like smoke but for $200 its a good deal! When I bought this the X5 had just come out and the prices of the M3 should drop soon.

EDIT: I just heard the 6/8/05 podcast so to answer the question the M3 plays oggs perfectly. I even listened to this podcast on it. It usually takes less than a second to load ogg files.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:01 pm

Niiiice. I was putting off buying one becuase of the OGG thing but seems like I have no real excuse.
Of course, I know myself... I say I'll be happy with the $129 version but end up buying the most expensive.
Still,...even then, I wont get the same look from my wife that my brother got from his when he told his wife "No, no..its not just a music player: its an I-p-o-d."