On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:38:11AM -0400, Jay Gagnon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:12 PM, James E. LaBarre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Interestingly my windows computer seems to be formatting it as FAT > > > whenever I have iTunes reset the thing between attempts. At this > > > point I'm giving up on syncing directly with linux. I spent about > > > four hours and the best I could come up with was Amarok, > > > > Interesting, as my own solution for iPod troubles with Linux is never to > > get an iPod. Of course, my major reasoning is more along the lines of > > refusing to even consider a player that does not support Ogg Vorbis. > > And Apple has been adamant in their refusal to support Ogg, so I'm just > > as adamant that I will not buy an iPod. (not that my non-purchase > > affects Apple at all <g>). > > > > They don't support Ogg because it's more CPU-intensive to decode and would > have dropped battery life below acceptable thresholds. But thanks for that > helpful contribution to solving John's problem.
Typically that's only true because vendors put mp3 decoding into a
hardware chip, and retrofit ogg as software only. xiph.org provides
free hardware designs for ogg chips as well.
I don't think the Apple decision had much to do with CPU usage, as they
were very agressive in pushing their own audio standard at the time of
the ipod launch.
-Sean
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