On Jun 16, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Lord Groundhog wrote:
> ~~~ On 2009/06/16 09:36, Steven Scotten at splicer@paroxysm.com
> wrote ~~~
>
>> Yes, there
>> were devices that would store MP3 files and output them into
>> headphones prior to the iPod, but all of them sucked. Sorry, but they
>> did.
>
> So you never used a Rio Karma? Big for its time (20GB), with Ogg
> Vorbis and
> FLAC support (for people who couldn't stand the awfulness of MP3s),
> and a
> user friendly interface, this thing had everything but the looks.
That's all well and good except that the first Rio Karma didn't appear
until almost two years AFTER the iPod. I didn't make any comparisons
to any MP3 players that came after the iPod. I wrote that the ones
PRIOR to the iPod sucked.
Steve
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