I wouldn't call iPod "cross-platform".
Neil
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:16:00 -0400, Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org> wrote:
quoted 60 lines It's really not that big a deal (to me). The ease of use (iTunes,> It's really not that big a deal (to me). The ease of use (iTunes,
> hardware design, easy cross-platform external storage) makes it up for
> me. It'd be nice if they'd do gapless, but I just plain don't really
> care. And I had actually thought I'd be too annoyed by it, but I'm
> not.
>
> Ogg/FLAC? Don't have any. Well, OK, I have some Oggs from when I went
> through my Ogg phase a couple years ago, but I just transcode them to
> m4a. In fact, I transcode all my MP3s that are greater than 128k too,
> because they get much smaller and I can fit more music on my puny mini.
>
> Sure, Ogg can be small, too, but I think even if every other player
> supported Ogg, I'd still go with an iPod for the ease of use and
> iTunes. Until the competitors' software was as good as it. As of now,
> I don't think there's anybody that matches iTunes for goodness.
>
> The Rio Karma seems like one of the best of the competitors, but it
> lacks too much, if you ask me. The complaints you mention are
> deal-breakers for me, and I'd add the interface design as being pretty
> lacking, too.
>
> That all being said, I'd love for somebody to release a real valid
> competitor to the iPod just so Apple has some good competition. The
> key is matching iTunes, and making file transfers easy. And probably
> the click-wheel at this point... seems the only way to go. Aside from
> "style", I think those are the real reasons people buy the iPod.
> -adamp
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Shane Huddleston wrote:
>
> > 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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