Transcend T.sonic 520 audio player with lyrics
By Marc Perton 
posted Jan 12th 2006 8:45PM
posted Jan 12th 2006 8:45PM
We don't quite buy Transcend Information's claim that the lyric display feature on the company's T.sonic 520 digital audio player will "bring out the pop star in everyone." We'd prefer to use the feature -- which makes use of the player's 2-line OLED display -- to check out the odd mondegreen (and they're all pretty odd or they wouldn't be mondegreens) as we listen to our tunes, rather than for mobile karaoke, as Transcend suggests. The other features available on the player are fairly standard, including MP3 and WMA support, line in, FM radio and capacities of 512MB and 1GB. Transcend claims 15 hours on a AAA. Oh, and if you are going to use this for karaoke on the go, we will not be held responsible for any personal injuries you may suffer at the hands of angered passerby.
iRiver has had support for lyrics for a long time now.
yes, iRiver had for about 2-3 years, and Cowon has Karaoke-like highlighting feature... with 7-line color display. I don't see anythign special about lyric support for this player, as much I see the huge Transcend logo on the player.... and is it like a trend NOT to support Ogg Vorbis other than korean dap?
I'm sure glad I don't have a company competing in the ultra small portable music player space. There must be a thousand different ones out there. Most seem to be pretty vanilla in flavor.
Wow, engadget... besides being the coolest tech blog ever, you have taught me a new word... mondegreen... who would have thought?
Wacky!
mon·de·green (mŏn'də-grēn', m?)
n.
A series of words that result from the mishearing or misinterpretation of a statement or song lyric. For example, I led the pigeons to the flag for I pledge allegiance to the flag.
[After (Lady) Mondegreen, a misinterpretation of the line (hae laid) him on the green, from the song “The Bonny Earl of Murray”.]
Most of the dime-a-dozen no-name/OEM DAPs already supported lyrics...the tough part was always synchronizing the lyrics with the song (since you need to enter the time in the text file which you want that particular line to appear).