Digital Audio Players with support for lossless formats have been showing up a lot lately. This is a hopeful sign that manufacturers are finally realizing that users want better quality! While many of these new DAPs are only available in Asia the new Vibez from Trekstor is a European born digital audio player with a […]

Chinese manufacturer Gemei are set to release the X-21, cousin to the X-20. What is so special about these Asian DAP’s you ask? Support for Monkeys Audio APE format! Both the X-20 which resembles a Pocket PC as well as the X-21 both support this popular lossless format. The X-21 is a 512MB flash player […]

Another Chinese company has released a PMP with an interesting feature set. I love it when small unknown Asian companies come out with devices that support features that we all want but American manufactueres won’t touch. One of those being lossless formats.
Green Apple has released the AP3100, a PMP with a 3.6 inch LCD that […]

Bluedot maker of mobile DVD players and Digital Cube have developed a Linux-based PMP that supports a dizzying range of formats including JPG, BMP, PNG, MP3, WMA, OGG, Dolby, WAV, FLAC, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV7/8/9, XviD and eventually DivX. Other features include a battery that can handle 7 hours of video and 10 hours of audio, 30 […]

The makers of the recently released A6 have produced another flash based music player called the T2. As with many of iAudio’s products it continues the well received tradition of supporting FLAC along with MP3, OGG, WMA, ASF and WAV.
Available in 512MB, 1GB, 2GB
65K colors OLED display @ 96 x 64 pixel
USB 2.0
Built-in Li-on Polymer […]

The French site Generation MP3 has released a review of iAudio’s newest offering, the iAudio A6. The A6 is the latest in a long line of HD-based mobile media players that support a wide variety of formats including OGG and FLAC. This latest offering contains a 4GB hard drive and a sports a 1.3 OLED […]

Cowon has released a firmware upgrade for the A2 that adds support for Flac with compression 0-8. The newest firmware release 1.61 provides a fix for Flac as well as adding the ability to view images while listening to music.
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The Ipod Rockbox project now has a build for the 4G Ipod’s. While the support for the 4th Generation Ipod is not listed in the Ipod FAQ builds are showing up in the Daily Build section.
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The Rockbox firmware (RB) for the Ipod is now working and while it is still in development many have reported successfully flashing there Ipod with the new firmware. Like other RB projects the Ipod project is still in development and new builds are a daily occurrence. And in case you didn’t know the developers of […]

The Iwod G10 PMP has many features that you would expect from a PMP but a feature you wouldnt expect is a NES Emulator. This new PMP allows you to load NES Roms onto an SD card and play your favorite games. It also has support for MP3, WMA, FLAC, MPEG-4, and AVI as well […]

The Rio Carbon was an extremely anticipated audio player that never made it to market. Like the other Rio players it had FLAC,OGG, MP3, WMA support and a 30GB HD with 30 hours of battery life. A former employee of Rio has provided Engadget pictures of the now defunct Rio Carbon along with the Carbon […]

Toshiba has announced its new line of Gigabeat HD players. The new S series comes in a 30GB (MES30V) and 60GB (MES60V) version and is using the new Freescale i.MX31 processor. The new units also have support for video, Xbox 360 and run Windows Portable Media Center.
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FM radio tuner
Extended battery life (20 hrs of […]

Rockbox is an open source operating system for music players that started in 2002 and was initially developed for the Archos DAP. Since then a port for the iRiver H100 series (110,120,140) has been developed and received alot of attention. More recently the port for the H300 series has begin to appear in the current […]

Here is an interesting article from The Register regarding Apple’s lack of cooperation with Microsoft to add support for the Ipod and Itunes to work with the Xbox 360. The final word in the article states a few reasons why the Xbox 360 will still be able to work with the Ipod and Itunes.

The AAC […]

Cowon who is famous for there iAudio M3 and X5 HD-based players is preparing to release the flashed-based iAudio U3. While the U3 is not currently listed on the US website the Korean ite is showing the U3 with support for MP3, WMA, Ogg, ASF, Xvid Mpeg4 and FLAC (0,1,2). Based on a Babelfish translation […]