Fedora and Music

[Ian Malone]

Dragos Neagu <dragos.neagu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
>>Also what about this ogg format?  I seems that no ipod like device
>>supports the format... is it 'better' than mp3 or ACC ?
> 
> 
> iriver's devices play ogg format.  rio karma plays ogg and flac.
> 

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis> has a section on hardware
support, there is a more comprehensive list at
<http://wiki.xiph.org/VorbisHardware>.  I would add that the
problem with iRiver devices is that only the newer HD players
work as UMS devices under Linux[1].  Their older flash based
devices do have UMS firmware, but you'll have to use Windows
or the SourceForge based iRiver software to load it on.  The
iAudio/Cowon devices all seem to be UMS based, but their new
flash device (U2) doesn't officialy have ogg yet.  They seem
a little quicker than iRiver to get new firmware out though.

Generally HD devices with ogg + Linux support are easier to find
than flash ones, in fact support is becoming quite widespread.

[1] Caveat: I haven't got an iRiver, so I don't know for sure.
     They did manage to create a beta version of the iFP800
     firmware that didn't work with Windows 98 machines though.
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imalone