26 Nov
2003
26 Nov
'03
9:42 p.m.
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:40, Matt Parker wrote:
I just bought an Oracom 200M 256Mb player. Mandrake 9.1 detected it automatically and magically added an entry to my fstab. Not only does it sound absolutely fantastic, it was only £80 and it says "Diverse OS support for Windows, Mac and Linux" on the front of the box in big letters.
I imagine it's just comes up as a piece of USB flash or what-not. I don't understand why more MP3 players don't do this :-/
No OGG though, but that was too much to hope for.
Another example of when 'free' is more expensive. Ogg Vorbis is computationally much more expensive and less trivial than MP3. Also, there are fewer chips out there that do it in hardware.
B.
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