Gregory Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:20 pm, Alan wrote: > > heh, have you priced an iPod? > > Yes. I still want one, even if I can't afford one currently. > > > Not to disparage Apple, but to suggest they don't milk their customers > > as much as the next guy is just plain silly. > > As I said, it's all about "best perceived value" in the customer's mind. > Why else would the iPod have so totally dominated the mp3 player market as > it has? Why else would everyone else be trying to copy Apple's design, > when Apple itself was actually very late coming into the market?
They are still useless until they can play Oggs. Of course, I have been thinking about how to revamp (read: creat) my disk ripping/encoding. My previous thought was two cdroms converted to flac, and shoved onto a single CDR. One problem is the binary blobs found on some CD's, bu they are rather rare. These are only important for recreating the disk itself. My current thinking is a 1:1: on the CDR, place the flacs, ogg at various quality level (studio, and portable. -q10 and -q3 likely) and MP3's (256 and 128 likely). This way, there is no need to re-rip for 99% of purposes. It jsut becomes a matter of finding the disk when you want it... Thoughts? > Why else would Microsoft management be so upset that every employee they see > with an mp3 player happens to be carrying an iPod instead of an MS-based > player? No royalties. iPod's don't do WMA, do they? -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
