River God

Today I got my new mp3 player! It's an iRiver 799, quite an old model but exactly the one I wanted. I've been playing with it all afternoon. It's quite an impressive little thing, and it has all the things that I need, including: AA Battery - essential for travel, mp3/ogg support, fm tuner, line in recording & inbuild mic and upgradeable firmware. It is wonderful. Unfortunately the controls are a little cryptic, as there are so many functions with not many buttons. Time will teach!

Hopefully this means native ifp support in amaroK, integrated into the media browser. Martin has already done a great job of separating out the iPod code from the media browser, and libifp provides an awesome API to interface to iRiver devices. On this topic, Roland submitted a great patch to allow dynamic hiding of browsers.

For more information on what has been going on with amaroK development, check out our 1.4 RoadMap.

Also, seems like Sony has been using LAME code in it's copy protected cd's, which happens to be LGPL. So much for "protecting copyright"...