Re: [tlug] "Long Live Portable OGG-Players"

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Apr 29, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Lyle H Saxon wrote:

> On 4/26/07, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:

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> > Although ipods make up here maybe a third or even half of
> > the market, there is still some competition. Just have a
> > look at the lokal mp3 player store www.k55.ch
>
> Have they only taken over that much of the market?  By observing
> people on the Yamanote Line and seeing what the retail stores have on
> their shelves, it looks more like the bloody iPods are 80 or 90% of
> the market!  Or is that just in this country?

In Germany it's different. All of the stores have 90% other players  
and some give only some special place for iPods and accessories. Here  
in Berlin you can see that more and more ppl have iPods just because  
of the headphones but I still see a lot of those cheap flash-based  
mp3-players around (more or less USB-sticks with mp3-playing  
capabilities).

But I have to say that the greatest advantage of an iPod (except of  
the interface and smart playlists based on rating/play-/skipcount) is  
it multilingual capabilities. Here I won't get any mp3-player that  
will display Japanese titles correctly (or Korean or Russian or  
whatever). And I hate it when I have to transcribe each of my non- 
alphabet song-titles, artist names or whatever. What are you guys  
doing with that? Is there any other player which gives you some kind  
of UTF-8 capabilites?

Niels

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