[SWLUG] I-River players

[studio-64]

Hi gareth
I have just checked out the i-river 20 gig on ebay and they dont mention 
ogg-vorbis.
Do you know if they still support this?
Cheers
Bob




> For the most part, it's a lot like a digital camera - it just appears as
> a mass-storage device which you can copy files to/from. However, some
> players also have the ability for the host computer to index the files,
> so you can search through the id3 tags in the files quickly.
> 
> I own an iRiver which can do this (so you can search by artist, genre,
> that sort of thing) and I believe the iPod has the same sort of
> capability. There's free software to index the iRiver and I've read that
> there are plenty of iPod tools too, but I can't verify this.
> 
> One last thing re the iRiver, there's some firmware for this,
> rockbox[0], which is free software. It takes the boot time for the
> device from a pretty awful 20 seconds down to 4 and adds a host of new
> features too, such as crossfades between tracks. The standard iRiver can
> play ogg files, the rockbox firmware adds FLAC too. The iRiver firmware
> is still under active development and hasn't got an "official" release
> yet (only daily builds) but it Works Well For Me [tm].
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gareth