Engadget Podcast 087

Engadget Podcast 087 - 09.05.2006

by Trent Wolbe, posted Sep 5th 2006 at 2:57PM

Seems like all those IFA goers and showers are getting up on the portable media device tip, between the Toshiba Gigabeat V, the Zen Vision:W, and the Sansa c200. And why not? It looks like Apple's prepping to launch a whole mess of stuff on September 12th, so if you can't beat 'em, at least get your products out earlier. Also in Apple: myTunes strips iTunes 6 DRM (albeit a little complicated), and Crossover Mac runs Windows apps without a virtual machine. And then along came the Chumby, making its adorable little way into our cold, jaded hands. Enjoy the show!

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Hosts: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block

Producer: Trent Wolbe

Music: Solvent - Instructograph (Ghostly International)

Format: 30:27, 14 MB, MP3

Program:
01:25 - Toshiba drops a bomb: Gigabeat V in the US
03:35 - Creative Technology introduces Zen Vision:W
09:15 - SanDisk intros Sansa c200 player
10:45 - SanDisk intros Made for Sansa
13:07 - CrossOver Mac beta released: run Windows apps in OS X
15:45 - myTunes: the simplified iTunes DRM stripper for Windows
18:20 - Apple planning event in SF on September 12th?
23:40 - Hands-on with Chumby

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Filed under: Handhelds, Household, Podcasts, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Tags: c200, chumby, gigabeat v, GigabeatV

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Erick @ Sep 5th 2006 6:27PM

Fair Use...You mentioned that DRM Stripping and Losing tag data... I've love to do that, but in the interim I've always just burnt everything to CD and re-rip it to the PC at a high MP3 bitrate. I haven't noticed any bad loss of sound quality, and the neat part is that all the meta-data stays...I'm sure you already know this, and the key is lossless removal, but, this is fairly quick, easy and you have a CD backup of your music that iTunes seems to always recognize the metadata, which is nice.

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Snesgirl @ Sep 7th 2006 4:43AM

Hi SSS/s on the podcast...

Hi Guys, Loving the podcast as usual, BUT.. for the last few tehre seems to be a real audio problem with Higher registers especially words starting with "S" ever time an S word is said there is noticible hiss / crackle... you changed mics / software / compression techniques lately.

Just a heads up as it constatnly marrs what is otherwise an enjoyable podcast experience.

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