How do all the iPod fans tolerate the lack of gapless playback? I
consider iPods to be broken out of the box for that reason alone and
simply couldn't use one without throwing it out the bus window within
5 or 10 minutes. Or, has Apple fixed that recently?
My money's on the Rio Karma. It has it's flaws (doesn't everything)
but has perfect gapless playback for MP3 and WMA and fully supports
all features of OGG and FLAC formats. Also cool is that the docking
station supports ethernet so you can just pop your player on any
standing network and access from any machine.
Complaints: can't mount it as a drive in Windows Explorer (or
OSX/Linux): non-music file transfers have to be done with proprietary
RioTaxi software. Also, there's only a 20GB version so far. Something
bigger is on the way, but probably not until 2005.
-Shane
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