Ah, another ogg listener! I'm on my second ogg player, the first was a rio karma and had definate quality control issues (at least the ones i had), and now rio is no more.
I'm currently on month 2 of my iAudio XL5, and I could not be any happier. http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_X5_feature.php -supports ogg and flac, as well as all the other standards. -35 hour battery life (that's the L version, standard battery is cheaper)... i listen to it every day at work and generally charge on weekends. -20gb or 30gb drive (30gb reviewed here) -color LCD -windows recognizes it as a harddrive when you plug it in. -line out and line in, records to mp3 (unfortunately not to wav) -plays mpeg-4 movies (you need to transcode them, but this is an easy process with the included software) -and has a ton of cool but generally not used features (by me, at least) that may be very nice for you: acts as a USB hub (you can plug your camera into it and dump pictures to it, then view them as the lcd), built in file manager so you can delete files from the device, voice recording to mp3, built in FM radio, FM radio recording to mp3 for time shifting radio... I could go on. 2 months in, not a single scratch on the unit or display. It is built like a brick (not in size, in quality). Oh, and it's quite sexy :) -Jeff On 10/26/05, Jillian Koskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been considering looking for a player that will do OGG so I > wouldn't have to convert... But none of them seem anywhere near as sexy > as the iPods. > > With the nano screen... Couldn't you just put that protective film over > top of it? I did that for the screen on my Palm and the LCD on my > digital camera and it worked like a charm --or do they just not stick > well to the nano's screen surface? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 11:20 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: I need an iPod... desperately > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael T. Tangorre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:52 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: I need an iPod... desperately > > > > My wife and I both have the mini iPod and love them. At 4 GB it holds > > enough > > music for just about anyone! The Nano is experiencing some problems > with > > the > > screen so I'd check into that before considering it (there is a class > > action > > lawsuit!). The mini is small enough to workout with and take biking or > to > > work (which is what I do). > > Ars-technica.com <http://Ars-technica.com> did a great torture test of the > nano and found it very > durable (although they did end up destroying it in the process). The > current lawsuit is that the screen "scratches too easily" and, after > reading > about it, seems a bit frivolous to me. > > But if all you're music is MP3 anyway you could save a LOT of money by > going > with a non-iPod. Personally I just don't like iTunes and since the iPod > won't play my (WMA) music it's not even a consideration. > > Mp3.com <http://Mp3.com> has good reviews of plenty of players. The mini > ranks right up > there, of course, but is actually beaten in several areas (the Rio > Carbon > Pearl for example gets nearly twice the battery life, while the Zen > micro > has an FM tuner). > > If you can stand iTunes I don't think you'll be at all unhappy with any > of > the iPods... but there are other, cheaper options which give you more > freedom to how you manage and store your music. > > (That being said if the Nano supported WMA and WMP I'd have bought one > by > now.) > > Jim Davis > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:178347 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
