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[Denthúl]

Evenin'

I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good portable music player for me? I'm looking to replace my ageing Samsung YP-T10 which is, to be honest, falling apart in my pocket each day and requiring reassembly and fresh sticky tape applying >.<

The only essential requirement is that it doesn't require a piece of proprietary software to transfer music/videos etc. to and from the device. Other than that, there are things I'd like (high capacity, touch-screen, support for Ogg Vorbis, Theora and FLAC files) but aren't totally necessary. I've had a look around and come to decide that things like the Samsung YP-P3, Cowon S9, Creative Zen X-Fi and Sony NWZ-X1050 all seem to offer roughly what I want (okay, open-source codec support only comes with two of those, but I could work around that if necessary) and, heck, if it wasn't for Apple's sheer lack of support for my platform of choice (and the fact that you have no choice but to use a piece of their software to put music and videos on to the device ), the iPod Touch would be a spectacular choice.

Problem is, aside from the Touch, I don't know anybody who owns any of the above or anything similar, so I can't ask their opinions. Does anybody own or have experience of any of the above-listed players, or something similar which would fit my requirements?

Cheers,

Joel.

[Gaz]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

[darwin dali]

[Denthúl]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :S

[darwin dali]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :

http://tinyurl.com/qty9oa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Denthúl]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(iPhone_OS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

And this would allow me to mount it as a mass-storage device instead? :S

Guh, I should have paid more attention in Control Technology. I'd just write my own OS for it >.<

Research-time.

[darwin dali]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(iPhone_OS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

And this would allow me to mount it as a mass-storage device instead? :S

Guh, I should have paid more attention in Control Technology. I'd just write my own OS for it >.<

Research-time.

I fixed the link...

[Denthúl]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(iPhone_OS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

And this would allow me to mount it as a mass-storage device instead? :S

Guh, I should have paid more attention in Control Technology. I'd just write my own OS for it >.<

Research-time.

I fixed the link...

Don't worry, I saw the excluded bracket and did a copy-paste instead. Thanks, though

[darwin dali]

get a touch and jailbrake it.

job done

Do what? :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbreak_(iPhone_OS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

And this would allow me to mount it as a mass-storage device instead? :S

Guh, I should have paid more attention in Control Technology. I'd just write my own OS for it >.<

Research-time.

I fixed the link...

Don't worry, I saw the excluded bracket and did a copy-paste instead. Thanks, though

It was weird though. I tried to fix it several times making sure I got the entire link, but no matter what I did, the bracket always was excluded. TinyURL to the rescue

[Jensonb]

OGG Vorbis is bad enough, but OGG Theora? I know you like OSS, but please! As a video nerd, that Codec makes me cry! It's so...Awful! h.264 For Life.

[bud]

get an iPhone

[Denthúl]

OGG Vorbis is bad enough, but OGG Theora? I know you like OSS, but please! As a video nerd, that Codec makes me cry! It's so...Awful! h.264 For Life.

The quality differences are exaggerated, particularly at the sizes these will end up being reduced to, and I don't watch that many videos, which means it's just not worth using a proprietary format. Now, I'll fully admit that once you get in to higher-resolutions and the kind of quality levels where you'd watch them at monitor/TV-sizes, h.264 is clearly better quality, but when all you do is watch them at lower resolutions and quality levels, there's no point in me using that format.

This is why all the people pushing h.264 for HTML 5 web standards gets on my nerves >.<

[EwanM]

Just don't have any. Then there is no chance of being knocked over.

[Denthúl]

Just don't have any. Then there is no chance of being knocked over.

I'll take my chances.

[EwanM]

Poor internal organs.