Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:50:50PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 March 2004 07:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: These do not support Ogg Vorbis yet. From tech support: Currently our CD based players do not support OGG file format. There is no ETA as to when this may be offered. I

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with oggs encoded up to 168kbs. The player may choke or skip parts if

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:37:38AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 11:03 am, Todd Slater wrote: Greg, do you encode by specifying bitrate or quality level? I typically encode at as low as -q 3 to save disc space (playing oggs on a Zaurus using CF), which reports a nominal bitrate of 112. Just wondering if you've found a good -q level

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 05 March 2004 07:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: These do not support Ogg Vorbis yet. From tech support: Currently our CD based players do not support OGG file format. There is no ETA as to when this may be offered. I have forwarded your request to our Development team for