http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/ Engadget Comments for RCA offers up four new Lyra players with a yawn http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
firstly, these units have been in the marketplace for quite some time, the carabiner version has been out since at least last summer and I know the splashproof models have been out for awhile...I'm not flaming, but I thought you guys only reviewed the newest/latest/greatest products?

secondly, a gripe to RCA, if this is the trend they're heading towards with their mp3 players, then I'm sorely dissappointed, their easlier versions of the Lyra with the SD expansion slots were great, reliable and took a lot of guess work out of buying an mp3 for those who aren't technologicly inclined, I work in retail and I swear that I sold those more than any other model or brand in my store, based solely on the fact that they were expandable...]]>Mar 28th 2006 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
If they don’t force me to their own personal proprietary software just to get a song onto it I'll buy 10 of them. I have had it with players that force you into their raggedy-_ssed software.

I've been holding off for a long time buying a small DAP because so many of them are in love with their own software. It's flash memory for gods sake, let it act like it instead of hobbling it with your trashware. Just let me dump my own stuff on it quickly so I can go.

No I don’t want to hear anyone’s lame rational for why some company’s software is like mana from heaven or how the software brought little Timmy’s dog back to life. It’s a useless tumor hanging off of the player and who the heck wants a tumor?

Rant complete
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It's really hard to get under my skin in a forum like this. Although seriously, proprietary software to load files onto what is essentially a flash drive, really really stupid ans even stupider to pay for it.

Most software is full of... problems. Having used computers for over 30 years I just shake my head at it any more.]]>Mar 28th 2006 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
So I gave up and bought an iPod. :-)]]>Mar 28th 2006 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
Just get a hammer that doesn't require you to hit your fingers...]]>Mar 28th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
OGG is nice for master backups of my music on my main desktop system, but for portability I will transcode into a less processor hungry codec to preserve battery life.]]>Mar 28th 2006 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
As for the debate about proprietary software... I love my iPod, but I absolutely hate iTunes. I don't mind the UI or anything, but the fact that it ignores what few settings it has is a little bothersome. Podcasts are a good example. I tell it to download everything whenever it sees new episodes, but it only downloads the latest one. Meaning I have to go through and click the stupid little "GET" buttons next to each episode it didn't deem worthy of downloading. Grrr...]]>Mar 28th 2006 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 28th 2006 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/
i agree.whoever thought of the name Ogg Vorbis should be tied to a stake set on an anthill...]]>Mar 28th 2006 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 29th 2006 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Mar 29th 2006 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/28/rca-offers-up-four-new-lyra-players-with-a-yawn/Jun 28th 2006 1:00PM