OT: long - Replacing CD's? was RE: [vorbis] New type of copy-prot ected audio CDs are coming...

Mat Bettinson mat at eurogamer.net
Mon Apr 9 06:49:38 PDT 2001



Heya Erik,

ET> There was one guy that jogs with his and wanted a firmware option
ET> to "warn" him audibly that the unit was about to access the hard drive
ET> so he could stop jogging for a few seconds while it loaded the next
ET> 10 minutes of music ;-)

Haha, not a stupid idea really.

ET> P.S. There have been several requests on the PJB mailing list to have
ET> support for OggVorbis but the firmware is proprietary and they use an
ET> oddball DSP.

Hmm, nasty. It's also all very well having that much space on them but
USB really isn't very fast at all. Then again maybe it is on these HD
units but it's amazingly slow on the solidstate units even for 64mb.


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