Nomad Jukebox 3 Officially Out 254
An Anonymous Coward writes: "It seems that the long awaited Jukebox 3 is officially out. Features include time scaling, to play files at different speeds without affecting pitch, multichannel effects, optical input, wireless remote and two battery ports. Probably not an iPod killer yet, although it has many, many more features and welcome firewire port. Now when will this thing be available?"
Did Nomad Pay for This? (Score:5, Interesting)
Just wondering, I guess....
Total cost to Canadians... (Score:4, Interesting)
Alternative third-party software for the Jukebox (Score:2, Interesting)
It provides full Windows Explorer integration, access to the Jukebox via a built-in webserver, and search and report generation features using a built-in SQL database.
There's a free trial version [redchairsoftware.com]. Notmad Explorer is also mentioned in the first full review of the Jukebox3 at TBREAK.com [tbreak.com].
Still no Ogg Vorbis (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm aware that Ogg Vorbis hasn't reached 1.0 yet, but still, you'd think they could include support for it pretty easily. Anyone know if you can upgrade the software on these things? Their site doesn't mention anything about it.
Re:Exactly (Score:1, Interesting)
Portal players use integers.
There aren't integer vorbis decoders that are free (beer or speech).
Re:Did Nomad Pay for This? (Score:4, Interesting)
As someone who has sent a product [slimdevicies.com] to Slashdot for review, let me tell you that this is *not* how it works. These guys like gadgets, and they consider product announcements to be worthy of "news for nerds". Judging by the number of comments attached these stories, most slashdot readers agree. That's why you see a lot of MP3 and PVR related stories.
We didn't pay slashdot to review the SliMP3. All cmdrTaco got out of it was a free prototype. I wasn't even the one who submitted the original story about my project. Somebody just found us on the web, and submitted a story. That's usually how slshdot works. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't see the slashdot effect - don't you think sites would prepare for the traffic if they knew a story was coming out?
in reply to the ogg trolls (Score:3, Interesting)
so? it is a mp3 player, not a ogg vorbis player. note the key word, mp3.
ogg is open source, which is nice. but not too many people use it, that don't read slashdot anyways.
get over it.
wait about 2 or 3 years, and they will come. when was napster really popular? 1999? how many portable mp3 players were available then that had more than 1 GB of storage?
Re:Total cost to Canadians... (Score:2, Interesting)
Then you can let the tarrif be a bygone. I know it doesn't work in the long run (because they probaly will then rewrite the law to close that loophole) and also because it doesn't address the tarrif for CD-R/W discs.
But mostly, you guys over that imaginary line called "border" have my fullest sympathy, and encourage you guys to do what you can before this rediculous-ness catches on here in the good ol' US of RIAA.
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