While it does support Vorbis, buyer beware. Here is one cheap unbranded Chinese 1GB mp3 player that supports vorbis. If you have one of these Chinese made players, just give it a try and see.
Since many tens of millions of these units have been sold worldwide, there is a potentially huge, undocumented, base of portable media players which can play the Ogg Vorbis format.
Before you buy one, you should check out the eBay FAQ on MP4 players first.įrom the information below (see "PowerUp!" items), it is possible that all Chinese made S1 MP3 and MP4 players can play the Ogg Vorbis file format, even though their manuals or advertisements do not mention this. I've tried two different MP4 nano lookalikes from different manufacturers and different eBay sellers, and both will play Ogg Vorbis fine, even though none of the documentation or product advertisements say this. Doc only mentions mp3 and wma, not vorbis.
It is USB rechargeable device with monochrome LCD and multicolored backlight plus FM stereo. All these are basically 1GB/2GB USB pen drives.ĨG model (at least) from Buy.com seems to have either s1mp3 or sigmatel chipset, worked fresh out of box. Many of these players can also be identified as having the following writings "MP3/WMA/FM/REC". If you have one of these players and know that they can play Ogg Vorbis, please inform which chipset these devices are equipped with. I have tested one "Sony" and it does play Ogg Vorbis. There are many of them branded as "Sony". It is appropriate to say that in brazilian consumer market, there are unbranded MP3 players such as this one that can flawlessly play Ogg Vorbis files. B&O have co-operated with Samsung to develop the device. Supports Vorbis quality levels up to Q10.
Although advertised as Windows and Mac OS 9.2 and higher only, the device is a Mass Storage device and is perfectly usable in Linux as well. It has 4GB of storage, USB 1.1 and 2.0 support and a small TFT LCD color display. Some features are a small colour display, 5-band Equalizer, FM-stereo radio, Line in, Microphone, and Charging via USB2.0. No official website, product no longer available for purchase, but three models existed: MP-8256 (256MB memory), MP-8512 (512MB) and MP-81000 (1GB). The player is available with 4 GB and 8 GB internal flash memory. With a stylus (not included) it is like 2 times better usable but still very non-deterministic. The device has one back button, an on/off switch and a touchscreen (non-capacitative) which is very stochastic. As of 2011-07 there are no firmware upgrades available. In comparison with other portable players, the minimal possible volume level is very loud. Display backlight, video playback and FM radio introduce different kinds of very annoying high frequent background noise.
The write rate is about 250 KiBi/s and the read rate is about 7 MiBi/s. The Vision 30c is usable as mass storage USB device. It supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC out of the box, but without displaying any tags. The Archos Vision 30c is a small almost credit-card sized lightweight portable audio and video player which is also able to record voice, display.
In each description, please say if the device works "out of the box" or you have to install any software to use it properly (if the extra-software is optional, then it doesn't matter). For an overview support matrix see the Vorbis Native Support Table (the table concentrates on players which are still available in shops). This page contains detailed descriptions of portable flash players supporting ogg vorbis playback. 68 Yarvik Funkick Media Player 4 GB (PMP220).64 TrekStor's blaxx, iBeat cody, iBeat organix 2.0, iBeat sonix,.48 Pyramid MP3 & MP4 Players and Player Acccessories MP3/MP4 Players.30 Maxfield's Max-Ivy, Max-Diamond, Max-Movie, Max-Diablo, Max-Sin Touch.29 Lowrance's iFINDER Expedition C, Hunt C, PhD, iWay 350C, possibly others.28 LG's UPANW5HSSI, UPANW1GSSI, UPANL1GSSI, UPANR1GSSI, UPANB1GSSI, FM30.