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I just recently got myself the SonicBlue RioVolt Mp3/WMA CD player, which has upgradeable firmware. I've sent a request to: customersupport@diamondmm.com asking them to add support for Ogg Vorbis in the next release of their firmware, so that it will be able to read Ogg CDs and display its tags properly. It would be great if others could e-mail the same address and ask for the same feature. I think we all agree that support for Ogg in hardware...

...Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en, fr-FR, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: vorbis@xiph.org Subject: Rio Volt, RCA Lyra, and other players I've posted this here before, but the topic has come up again so I'll summarize my old posts. I contacted DiamondMM/SonicBlue several times about getting Ogg support into the Rio500 (which is firmware upgradeable and features the words "supports future music formats" prominently on all the literature). Their response was pretty consistent: we don't support it because it's not a widespread, &quo...

...hnical Support Support Telephone Number: 541-967-2450 Customer Service Telephone Number: 800-468-5846 Sincerely, Billie C. TRACKING NUMBER: A00000142993-00000604098 -----Original Message----- From: deg3@ra.msstate.edu Sent: Thursday, May 17 2001 07:46 AM To: customersupport@diamondmm.com Subject: Presales Question - Customer Service ===================================== Comments: Do or will any of your Rio portable music players support the Ogg Vorbis audio file format? I was unable to find any information re: this on any of the support pages (partially because they...

There is a 'feeling' on the opencores list that an audio decoder is desired. (MP3 gets mentioned occasionally, but has its patent problems etc...) http://www.opencores.org/ no audio projects are underway yet and I think a vorbis decoder will take a while but even if only a start is made then others may add to it. For their one year anniversary they will actually be doing a chip run and

if ya' haven't seen it already, check out: http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyWSJ/wsj2-dow.html ad, sad, sad. on many fronts. I don't begin to understand how this might work; I suppose the MP3 degradation only applies to MS encoding software... *shrug* this may, however, provide a good leveraging point for Vorbis. have fun dongoodman