iFP ogg support (WAS: Re: [Vorbis] Re: bitrate limits don't work with -q settings?)

[madsdyd at challenge.dk]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Frank Murphy wrote:

> So I also got an iRiver iFP machine because of it's ogg support. 

Me too! ;-)

> I've recently discovered its problems with oggs encoded at less than
> 96kbps (though I'm not sure which thing needs to be 96kbps).

He - my problem was that my ogg files was having a too high bitrate.

> I haven't seen any official iRiver statement about which bitrates are 
> supported, but I've seen hearsay that it accepts only between 96kpbs and 
> 220bps. 

Its in their FAQ though:
http://www.iriver.com/html/support/faq/sufq_view.asp?searchProductIdx=35&searchString=&page=2&idx=196&tmpSearchProductIdx=&tmpSearchString=
(Cross my fingers that the link is working, otherwise, select iFP 700 
series, faq 42. The answer is for all models.).

> But I don't know if that's Average bitrate, nominal bitrate, or what. 

Thats not clear to me either.

I hope this is not too oftopic: I got my iFP 795 a couple of days ago. 
Upgraded to UMS 1.28 firmware. I find that the player is not really 
stable, and it does not seem to support ogg tags. Does this match your 
findings?

Mads

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