Joseph
I acknowledge that iPod is well designed: my remark about fashion was
an off the cuff supply / demand rational.
I listen to audio books from the EPL and I have noted some titles lacked
features that make them easier to listen to, such as 3 minute
bookmarking. For example: I listened to a book on astronomy called
_Seeing in the Dark_, a great book, but if I stopped mid-CD I had to
start at the beginning or try to fast-forward to the spot where I left off.
Can you give me an example of a book, from the EPL, that requires WMA
DRM and/or are they all like that. I would like to include audio books
in my music mix and I would be disappointed if this would be limited.
I acknowledge Ben's critique, but I have to agree with you that the MP3
market seems to be in disarray.
Brian
T. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:40:52AM -0700, alan wrote:
"PlayForSure" is the Microsoft branded DRM. "PlaysForS%$%^" is more like
it. (It is a very troublesome bit of code to keep working, even if you do
use Microsoft products.) It also drains battery life on the device
because of the extra cpu load.
I have been looking at either the SanDisk or iRiver. (iRiver will play
ogg files!)
SanDisk players are turds. Bug-ridden pieces of crap.
Creative doesn't deserve your money, and their products are not better
than SanDisk's.
Samsung's player isn't bad, but it's like an iPod with bling..
iRiver has Ogg going for it, but I wouldn't say it's got anything else.
I'm looking at an iAudio U2 or U3 (random Asian manufacturer) because of
its recording features, which are supposed to be at least as good as the
typical digital voice recorder, and doesn't use unusual highly compressed
voice codecs to be able to put a $150 price tag on a 64/128MB flash device
because you can advertise that it can record a week's audio at RealAudio
on a 9600 baud modem quality. No promises that either is actually decent
at audio playback!
Seriously, there's a reason why the iPod is the top seller in its market,
and it's not fashion. Most music players are crappy and limited when you
compare them to the iPod. They're either clunky compared to similar model
iPod in size or functionality or both, or they're so buggy, unreliable,
and missing essential features that anyone who buys one tells everyone
they know to get an iPod instead.
I've been looking for a decent quality non-Apple music player because I
actually need support for WMA DRM, whether I want support for it or not.
(Digital audio books..) The conclusion I reached was that every single
product on the market was horrible. The Creative Zen Nano, for example,
was hard to use and several times larger than my iPod Shuffle, and equally
unsuitable for audio books. Bigger players just weren't any better.
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