I'm looking for personal recommendations for low cost flash based players which support Vorbis (speex and flac support would be nice, but aren't mandatory). Solid support (no weird limits for low and high bitrates) is required. I'd be buying a fair quantity of them to give away as prizes and gifts. I'd rather purchase players which have native Vorbis support rather than buying ones which someone has produced hacked firmware for and thus rewarding companies which produce players which lack this support. Does anyone have any suggestions? The wiki's list of players is somewhat out of date. Of course, I'll update it with any good suggestions made here...
On 21 Jan 2007, greg@xiph.org wrote:> I'd rather purchase players which have native Vorbis support rather > than buying ones which someone has produced hacked firmware for and > thus rewarding companies which produce players which lack this > support.IAudio (Cowan), MPIO, and SamSung. I would personally stay away from IRiver due to their insane bitrate restriction. Charles -- lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20070121/aa4f81c3/attachment.pgp
On 21 Jan 2007 at 0:18, Gregory Maxwell wrote:> I'm looking for personal recommendations for low cost flash based > players which support Vorbis (speex and flac support would be nice, > but aren't mandatory). Solid support (no weird limits for low and high > bitrates) is required. >I have a Samsung YEPP MT5 (1GB) that can play Vorbis, but it has some software problems. The thing is small, looking nice, and seems machanically robust. Another advantage is that it runs for 40 hours with one standard AA battery. I know that the tRekstor iBeat Organix also can play Vorbis, and it got 100 out of 100 points for audio quality. I never had listened to that however. Those should be around $100; depends on your estimation of "low cost"...> I'd be buying a fair quantity of them to give away as prizes and gifts. > > I'd rather purchase players which have native Vorbis support rather > than buying ones which someone has produced hacked firmware for and > thus rewarding companies which produce players which lack this > support. > > Does anyone have any suggestions?iAudio probably is beyond your budget. Ulrich
I bought a ZVue 200 a couple months ago, and do recommend it. Storage is removable SD or MMC cards (max size 4 GB), and MPEG-4 video playback is decent: http://www.zvue.com/players/players.php?thispage=players_200_demo.php Wal-Mart now has the ZVue 250 for $94.86 - same as I paid for my 200. The 250 swaps the 4xAA compartment with a Li-ion battery and internal charge controller, and has a black instead of metallic blue plastic case: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5438627 Both models include a 128 MB MMC card pre-loaded with some sample music and video files. I bought a separate 4 GB SD card for $73 shipped. Vorbis files from q-2 (aotuv patched) to +10 sound great - I have yet to encounter a Vorbis file that didn't play flawlessly. One minus: it reads and displays MP3 tags, but only displays basic info for Vorbis files (ignores tags), at least with current firmware. I emailed ZVue asking about this as well as FLAC support, but to date have received no response. For me personally this is a minor shortcoming, as for the price it does a lot and sounds great. Dave Gregory Maxwell wrote:> I'm looking for personal recommendations for low cost flash based > players which support Vorbis (speex and flac support would be nice, > but aren't mandatory). Solid support (no weird limits for low and high > bitrates) is required. > > The wiki's list of players is somewhat out of date. Of course, I'll > update it with any good suggestions made here... > _______________________________________________ > Vorbis mailing list > Vorbis@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/vorbis
I bought a ZVue 200 a couple months ago, and do recommend it. Storage is removable SD or MMC cards (max size 4 GB), and MPEG-4 video playback is surprisingly good: http://www.zvue.com/players/players.php?thispage=players_200_demo.php Looks like Wal-Mart now has the ZVue 250 for $94.86 - same as I paid for my 200. The 250 simply swaps the 4xAA compartment with a Li-ion battery, and has a black instead of metallic blue plastic case: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5438627 Both models include a 128 MB MMC card pre-loaded with some sample music and video files. I bought a separate 4 GB SD card for $73 shipped. Vorbis files from q-2 (aotuv patched) to +10 sound great - I have yet to encounter a Vorbis file that didn't play flawlessly. One minus: it reads and displays MP3 tags, but only displays basic info for Vorbis files (ignores tags), at least with current firmware. I emailed ZVue asking about this as well as FLAC support, but to date have received no response. For me personally this is a minor shortcoming, as for the price it does a lot and sounds great. Dave Gregory Maxwell wrote:> I'm looking for personal recommendations for low cost flash based > players which support Vorbis (speex and flac support would be nice, > but aren't mandatory). Solid support (no weird limits for low and high > bitrates) is required. > > The wiki's list of players is somewhat out of date. Of course, I'll > update it with any good suggestions made here... > _______________________________________________ > Vorbis mailing list > Vorbis@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/vorbis