Hardware Ogg Players was Re: SD -> USB card reader ?

[Jason]

Yup, I agree, that's why I was so keen to let the list know about them! 
Ahhh, but the plot thickens. We were originally told by our supplier 
that the latest players had the firmware already upgraded but it seems 
this was not right. They don't play ogg out of the box (yet) but require 
 an easy firmware upgrade to do so (though I suspect this is via a 
Winders .exe =). This upgrade will be available soon. I just received 
this today from the manufacturer:

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Dear Sir,
We are now working on the Ogg Vorbis for NEX ia.  It will be released soon
on our web site.
Thank you.

Customer Support

Frontier Labs
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There seems to be a bit of a race on to have the first one out the gate 
as SEVERAL manufacturers are saying upgrades are coming to their 
firmware to play oggs. I hope this signals wider adoption of this 
royalty/patent free format. It also helps the manufacturers avoid the 
"tax" on MP3 Players levied by Thompson Multimedia.

As I said, will advise once we have sourced the firmware upgrade for ogg's.

Cheers

Jason

Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
Wow an ogg player, I am already sold! I think a music player that can
play an open source codec is very relevant to this mailing list. By CF I
assume you mean Compact Flash and those cards go up to 3 Gig. Imagine
how many many ogg's you could store on that! Please let me know once you
have the details online.