[Fabian]

Oh yeah and I forgot to add...

Phones are absolute shit for MP3 playback, because they use software decoding instead of a dedicated hardware decoder chip, like dedicated mp3 players do.

Not sure about the N-Gage though

[sm1DDy]

Depending on the ngadge version from what I heard it may have dedicated chip or software decoding.

The Original ngadge uses dedicated hardware chip.

All other Series 60 devices, including the N-Gage QD, rely on software decoding.

There not great for movies etc considering it uses .rm or .3gp format I may be wrong tho.

This post has been edited by sm1DDy: 03 September 2006 - 03:55 PM

[azenis]

I have an iAudio X5L



its 30gb and has the long life battery - seriously I charge it maybe once a month and use it for an hour or two a day.

Awesome sound, nice metal case, decent color screen, plays video, flac, ogg, about any file format you care to throw at it. Has an FM radio, alarm, eq etc etc etc

Best of all since it doesnt work with ID3 databases, you simply drag and drop your music to it (or off it) like you would any removable hard drive. No software is needed.

[DeejAy]

i've had my zen for about 2 years now. and i charge it once every 2 or 3 weeks and i use it all the time
nice rig man looks kool^^

[azenis]

iPox err iPods only last 9 or so hours I LAUGH IN THEIR FACE HAHAHA!!!!11

[Kiwi]

you can't really judge an mp3 player purely on the stock firmware either. take a look at rockbox.org to see if the player you have has a rockbox mod for it.

rockbox is an alternative firmware, especially created by hackers and designers from outside of any official company. they make new firmware for plenty of players, and give them new features, better use of resources, etc.

my iriver h10 was pretty shit. it had a colour screen but the biggest use of it was the lame photo viewer on the stock firmware. with rockbox, i can now watch video and play doom (w00t). i know that not many people would actually want to watch video on a screen that size, but it just goes to show what can be done with a previously near-obsolete player.

also, it allows you to change themes, fonts, while playing screens, and various plugins for it. rockbox is awesome.

even an ipod can become geek friendly, as long as itunes is told to fuck off and some decent features are built in for those who know how to use them.

admittedly, they don't do all players. but, if you want more out of your player, give it a try.

EDIT: by 'resources' i'm including an improved battery life. mine has a slightly worse battery life, but that's because they only managed to crack it a month or two ago.

This post has been edited by Kiwi: 03 October 2006 - 05:35 PM

[sm1DDy]

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you can't really judge an mp3 player purely on the stock firmware either. take a look at rockbox.org to see if the player you have has a rockbox mod for it.

rockbox is an alternative firmware, especially created by hackers and designers from outside of any official company. they make new firmware for plenty of players, and give them new features, better use of resources, etc.

my iriver h10 was pretty shit. it had a colour screen but the biggest use of it was the lame photo viewer on the stock firmware. with rockbox, i can now watch video and play doom (w00t). i know that not many people would actually want to watch video on a screen that size, but it just goes to show what can be done with a previously near-obsolete player.

also, it allows you to change themes, fonts, while playing screens, and various plugins for it. rockbox is awesome.

even an ipod can become geek friendly, as long as itunes is told to fuck off and some decent features are built in for those who know how to use them.

admittedly, they don't do all players. but, if you want more out of your player, give it a try.

EDIT: by 'resources' i'm including an improved battery life. mine has a slightly worse battery life, but that's because they only managed to crack it a month or two ago.

You can if the firmware hasnt been developed yet lol mine does everything I need tho by default so im happy.

Its good to rely on company built firmware rather than thirdparty if I remebered rightly rockbox used a duel boot system which is nice I cant find the source code I have atm tho.

Offcourse rockbox is good but a initial release can take sometime to get out and develop and to a degree its wise to be careful with such "thirdparty software". I dunno what security is implemented but id imagine there would be alot of reverse engeenering involved.

As for the battery I imagine you mean normal use such as listenting to music etc as watching movies should run it down hard.

Personaly in my firmware win media portable I turned off all the special effects, themes, custom settings, transition sounds and so on and use the simple stuff to keep the battery happy.

sm1DDy

This post has been edited by sm1DDy: 03 October 2006 - 08:26 PM

[azenis]

YEah I grabbed rockbox for the X5L, there is even a dualboot version that lets you keep the standard firmware but if you hold the power button for longer it loads rockbox Its only fairly recently ported to the iAudio though and when I last looked it was pretty bad with regards to battery life, so I thought I would come back to it, I guess I should check it out again soon.

[DeejAy]

for all those that use IPODS (YUK!) and want to ditch itunes, use Anapod Explorer. I use it for Clares Ipoo nano. For my Creative Zen i use Notmad Explorer, both made by Red Chair Software.
Crazymob pointed out to me the Anapod, but i have been using Notmad Explorer for a fair while now.
i just noticed while looking at the website that they actually have a version for your player Kiwi, not quite sure why but they have a version for all Irivers.

heres the link. its not free but i'm sure u can find a way of getting your hands on the programs.....

Redchair Software
thank you, come again.

This post has been edited by Deejay: 04 October 2006 - 02:42 PM

[Fabian]

WTF!?!?! I TOLD YOU ABOUT ANAPOD EXPLORER!!!

ARAARARARARGGHHH NO CREDIT WHATSOEVER!!!

...just caused you got pwned with britney

[Firewater]

N-Gage is really nice with mp3 playback and to the fact of answering phone calls is sweet.

only downside is its too big, i couldn't stand having that thing smiddys got.. massive.. its enough having 2 phones in my pocket along with a mass media center...

[DeejAy]

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CCrazymob pointed out to me the Anapod, but i have been using Notmad Explorer for a fair while now.

read the post again u tool bag !!!! i was already using notmad Explorer before u told me about Anapod. :S

This post has been edited by Deejay: 05 October 2006 - 04:30 PM

[Fabian]

ARGH YOU EDITED THE POST!

and by the way... n-gages look like taco's

This post has been edited by crazymob: 05 October 2006 - 06:29 PM

[sm1DDy]

Fits my pocket fine doesnt jump around and can watch movies and stream good audio.

All with long battery life and sexc speaker

[DeejAy]

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ARGH YOU EDITED THE POST!

and by the way... n-gages look like taco's

look closer tool bag LOL look when the posts were made and when i edited them!! :S i still love you though

[zesty]

I have been using DAPs for a while now. I had a iRiver H320 in August 2004. I put Rockbox on it when it was still very experimental for the iRiver.

I now own a 60Gb 5G iPod. I would not have bought it except for Rockbox.

Battery life of iPods? The 5G 60 Gb is rated for 20 hours playback.


If you use Rockbox you can just load the music on and put it where you want.

Sound quality? It has less background hiss than my H320 (which had great sound) and Rockbox allows you to set the 5 band equaliser that is on the Wolfson chip. The Wolfson is the DAC (digital to analogue converter, it converts the digital sound files to audio ) on the iPods.

If you look at the credits of Rockbox, you will see my name. It was last but I think it has moved up a tad now

So I am on you DAP Kiwi!!!

z

This post has been edited by zesty: 06 October 2006 - 04:35 PM

[sm1DDy]

omg its zesty long time no see.

[zesty]

Though I should drop over and see how you lot are going

z

[sm1DDy]

yeah dms goin well and most of the members are doin pretty well.

Ive allmost done my maths 4 and might go pretert maths next year if I have enough time on the side with my info tech vet course.

[zesty]

Cool. :good: Glad you are doing well after all my expert tuition :dntknw:

And how about the rest of you?

<edit> that was meant to be an ironic winking smiley so I put two different ones in,/edit.


z

This post has been edited by zesty: 06 October 2006 - 06:26 PM