http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/ Engadget Comments for New Archos 5, 7 firmware adds OGG / FLAC support, fixes bugs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/
Also, I'm happy to see more devices getting ogg and flac support. It shows the growing influence of open source software.


This is good.]]>Oct 13th 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/]]>Oct 14th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/
Archos you lazy bums, we need 720p(/1080p) H264 AC3/(DTS) MKV support. Now!]]>Oct 15th 2008 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/archos only makes you pay for licensed codecs, Flac and ogg Vorbis are free, so it's a suprise they took so long to add support]]>Oct 13th 2008 9:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/but otherwise, yea, thats the only place i've seen 'em.]]>Oct 13th 2008 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/It's the linux equivalent of wma or acc.
mp3 sucks and just needs to go die.]]>Oct 13th 2008 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/
Chances are you have played a PC game with Ogg Vorbis audio, because virtually all of them now use Ogg Vorbis for years now (though often 'hidden' from view in proprietary containers), largely due to its superiority and royalty-free nature. MP3, being patented, costs big bikkies:
http://mp3licensing.com/royalty/games.html

http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
Ogg allows artists and publishers to share / stream their content without fear of dealing with lawyers. FLAC does a similar thing for lossless. Great for artists and publishers alike. Everyone wins, and there are no hidden royalties being paid and passed on to Joe User when he buys a device with FLAC or Ogg Vorbis support, unlike MP3.


]]>Oct 13th 2008 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://pocketables.net/2008/10/website-load-ti.html who did a comparative page loading test with the iPhone 3G and Nokia N810 browsers.

Cause one thing is liking iphones momentum scrolling and two finger zoom modes. But Archos loads the page much faster and has a screen size that is big enough and has enough pixels so side-scrolling and zooming is NOT required.

Sure it would be nice if Archos added momentum scrolling as well. But right now, NYT.com loads in less then 3 seconds and Engadget.com loads in less then 5 seconds. And you can see the whole width of the page on the 4.8" screen without needing to zoom. And unlike the iphone browser, most of the webs AJAX and Flash is directly supported.]]>Oct 13th 2008 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 13th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.vorbis.com
http://flac.sourceforge.net

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I wish the UI was improved on Archos though. The only thing holding me from buying an Archos product is the laggy UI and glitchy apps I've been hearing about. Hopefully they'll work on the software more (hardware is perfect, IMO). Till then, I'll stick with other full screen PMPs with internet capabilities.]]>Oct 14th 2008 1:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/After having been an Archos fan for years, I wanted to go lossless. I also wanted the biggest disk, I could get and thus there was exactly one choice: The 160 GB Ipod. Archos could easily deliver on the big disk but they didn't support any lossless formats. They do now - well, too late guys.]]>Oct 14th 2008 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/]]>Oct 14th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/
Or maybe they're just mad people are using Rockbox? I know I'm not...]]>Oct 13th 2008 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/
Man this is like the best piece of news coming from Archos since ... since I was a kid actually and they made a pretty good 6Gb-almost-first-ever hard-drive-based mp3 jukebox

I getting the 5 as soon as the SFR version with 3G+ comes out ..
which should be no time mhuahahah I love being in france (for once)

Archos 5 3G+ and HTC TOUCH HD ? Who's your daddy america ? :)]]>Oct 14th 2008 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/I want one for Christmas !!!!]]>Oct 14th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/new-archos-5-7-firmware-adds-ogg-flac-support-fixes-bugs/Oct 14th 2008 10:57AM