On 8 April 2010 16:07, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Philipp wrote: >> Excerpts from david's message of 2010-04-07 21:53:15 +0200: >>> Lorenzo wrote: >>> >>>> By the way, there are relatively cheap portable players which support >>>> OGG and FLAC >>> Really? Never seen one anywhere. My little portable CD player only does >>> MP3 and WMA. >>> >>> Of course, I use my laptop as my music player, no problem supporting a >>> whole pile of media formats including OGG and FLAC. >> >> A friend of mine has a really tiny sandisk one which plays vorbis at >> least. I think it's not that uncommon anymore. >> Vorbis and flac at least are rather often supported but it's not often >> something marketing uses prominently. >> >> With other formats, like wavpack, you'll have less luck. > > I have to agree that marketing (by non-Apple player makers) isn't very > good. Out here, at least, the main marketing message is "more space > cheaper than iPod". Nothing else gets mentioned. > > Also what never gets mentioned is "Do these non-Apple iPod competitors > work with iTunes"? Not that I use iTunes, but apparently a lot of people do. Sometimes I'm helping out people, and those times I get in my hand some really old or really proprietary stuff that never will have support other than MP3. For myself, my cellphone is my mobile audio player. It's a Motorola ROKR E8, and not only can I play OGG, I can play AVI with MPlayer =p -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
