Posted: January 4th, 2011 | Author: Linh Pham | No Comments »
A few months ago, I wrote about my search for an iPod Classic replacement and how there isn’t a whole lot of options out there. Well, I found something that would meets most of my requirements when perusing through The Register. They had a review of a Cowon iAudio X7 portable media player that is available with either a 120GB or a 160GB hard drive; more importantly, the player supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (albeit, Cowon does not list out support for 16-bit/48KHz FLAC files).
The 160GB capacity would be the same as my current iPod Classic, which is liveable; but, the lack of physical playback buttons (meaning dependance on on-screen controls) is a much bigger issue for me. I wouldn’t mind having a corded remote that provide some kind of playback control. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: November 22nd, 2010 | Author: Linh Pham | No Comments »
About a month ago, I wrote about looking for a replacement for my current 160GB iPod Classic and having been underwhelmed by the competition. One of the options that I had looked and continue to look at is the Archos 5 Internet Tablet with a 500GB hard drive, which is on sale at Amazon.com right now for a little bit more than a new 160GB iPod Classic (which is a bit slimmer than the one I have).
While it would definitely meet my requirements for capacity and audio format support (MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis), as well as gives me the option to hack around with either the Android OS (version 1.6) or load my own operating system if I really wanted to. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: October 12th, 2010 | Author: Linh Pham | 1 Comment »
Those who know me, I have amassed a huge collection of music over the past decade and a half. So much, in that I don’t have enough CD towers to store them all. I have also ripped the CDs in MP3 (a bare minimum of 256kbps CBR, though my standard is now 320kbps), as well as many of my favorites in FLAC and ALAC.
Why FLAC and ALAC? I chose FLAC since it is a lossless and open format, in which I can treat each FLAC file as an archive-worthy copy that so happens to contain ReplayGain data. Not to mention, it’s perfect for listening to music in my living room through my Squeezebox or one of my Sennheiser headphones (HD570 and HD580). Now, it may seem redundant to have FLAC and ALAC copies floating around, but it’s necessary because Apple decided to go with ALAC as their sole lossless format for iTunes and their iPods. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 26th, 2007 | Author: Linh Pham | No Comments »
I has been two weeks since I got my hands on a 160GB iPod Classic with the intention of replacing my 60GB iPod Photo so that I can carry more music with me, and maybe an occassional video or photo collection.
As reported on my last two review “journals” on the iPod Classic, there are some things about the iPod Classic that are good and some that seem like a step backwards. This journal entry focuses on a significant user experience issue with the iPod Classic and iTunes: music management and sync-ing between iTunes and the iPod Classic is painfully slow. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 17th, 2007 | Author: Linh Pham | No Comments »
After using my new 160GB iPod Classic for about a week, I have noticed that the UI responsiveness of going between menus and loading playlists has gotten more sluggish as I continued to add more songs and podcasts. Although the UI was more sluggish than my 60GB iPod Photo, skipping between songs on the iPod Classic seemed to be much quicker. With my iPod Photo, skipping between songs would have anywhere from a 0.5 to a 2 second delay, while it seemed nearly instantaneous with the iPod Classic. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: September 12th, 2007 | Author: Linh Pham | No Comments »
For over a year, my portable audio player of choice has been a 60GB iPod Photo which I have loaded a good chunk of my music collection and podcasts that I have been downloading (manually I might add; I have yet to find a podcast download tool that fits my requirements). Unfortunately, I started running out of space on the iPod about 6 months ago and have been juggling podcasts and albums in order to keep a little bit of free space on it.
During Apple’s recent iPod announcements, I had been hoping for an iPod that could hold more than 80GB of storage. Thankfully, a 160GB iPod Classic was announced, and while the iPod Touch was enticing, the limited storage (8GB and 16GB) put it off my list immediately. Sure, the other option would be an Archos 705 player with a large touch screen, WiFi, various video codec support and a 160GB model, but I didn’t care much for portable videos and didn’t really like the feel of the previous model. Read the rest of this entry »
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