Comments on: Shameless product endorsement No. 5

By: jraz

jraz — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:54:34 +0000

I know this comment is late to the party but I couldn’t resist since I like ogg format too.

@redandwhitestripes

“It plays ogg files.” is in there 3x’s and 1 reference to ogg compatibility.

Love this blog.

By: EasyTag 1, Apple 0 « Motho ke motho ka botho

EasyTag 1, Apple 0 « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:06:41 +0000

[...] Let’s just leave that last part unsaid. Suffice to say, I never had that problem with this player. [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:12:45 +0000

This is just what I was looking for – ideas to replace my iRiver T20 that’s started playing up. Ogg support and integrated USB connector are essential for me so I may follow your suggestion. One question, though. I’ve read that the T7 suffers from short battery life and slow button response. Would you agree with that based on your experience?

Great blog, by the way. I live in Japan running Arch/LXDE on an old Thinkpad so it’s great to find all this new reading material.

By: skralljt

skralljt — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:21:35 +0000

Hey, Iriver makes some good products (I’ve owned three, I liked their mp3-cd players) but the one glaring issue with them is that none of my players are listed anywhere on their page. When I buy hardware I want to be able to download the drivers. Two of the products I have aren’t even listed anywhere on the internet except in third party obscure websites and some japanese iriver page. One of my products, the slim-x 350, you really have to dig for to find anywhere. They work well though, and despite some grinding noises in cold weather the old beast is still playing ogg vorbis files based on a beta firmware released five years ago or so. Unfortunately that firmware could not play ogg vorbis files over -q 5 which sucks because i always encode at -q 6 or -q 7, so i had to transcode to cd’s which really caused some artifacts, sometimes even noticeable on my suburban’s tinny 3 1/2″ tweeters.
Keep posting, your blog is very useful. Especially your guide on rtorrent. I am also engaged in using throwaway laptops for things like freenas and rtorrent, though I prefer PIII’s and up. Cheers!

By: chombee

chombee — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:12:22 +0000

Anyone know where you can get one of these in the UK for less than amazon is selling them for? (Amazon has them from £46 second hand or £50-£70 new).

By: elmariachi

elmariachi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:16:05 +0000

i can’t find those players here in Portugal :’(

By: stephen

stephen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:13:30 +0000

thank goodness for people supporting the awesome ogg format. i got a sansa clip because they started supporting it (and now they do flac too). i don’t know how people can live life under the iron curtain of ipod/apple/aac/mp3.

excellent article.

By: Congac

Congac — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:54:26 +0000

Iriver have nice design and good sound on their players.
And ogg vorbis support is a must if you like quality music. Even though I’ve read about a study (perhaps on slashdot) about how students prefer the sound signature left by mp3s.

The only thing I haven’t found yet is if Iriver support replaygain?

By: redandwhitestripes

redandwhitestripes — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:42:58 +0000

You put the ogg capability twice, but I know it is important My requirements are similar to yours and I bought a Samsung YP player, which has served me well.

By: celettu

celettu — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:01:48 +0000

I really have to look into that…