Phil Leigh;551638 Wrote: > It wasn't a quote (otherwise I'd have used the quote function of the > forum). > > It was a statement by me - the quotation marks are mine. > > The point I was making in response is that the Touch is NOT a portable > player, nor is it marketed as one, so comparing it with one seems > wrong. Nor in fact is its primary function to be an MP3 player although > of course it can do that. > > The onboard functionality of an iThing is very much lower. Leaving > aside the fact that it is mostly locked to proprietary Apple formats > and software. > > They don't sound great either... but that isn't their primary purpose. > Their primary purpose is portability/accessability. The Touch is NOT > portable (in the sense of a "personal stereo"/Walkman-like device). > > > The Touch handles my 35,000 FLAC files (including 2000 hi-rez files) > fine from a standalone (self-powered) USB drive (I've tried 3 so far), > so there is no inherent generic problem.
Keep on digging... -- floater ------------------------------------------------------------------------ floater's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=38048 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79212 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
