Comments on: MP3 Players in Australia http://dbaines.com/blog/archive/mp3-players-in-australia/ Portfolio and Blog of David Baines, South Australian Web Developer Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Baines http://dbaines.com/blog/archive/mp3-players-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-8689 Baines Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:17:33 +0000 http://dbaines.com/blog/?p=287#comment-8689 Cool. Everyone I asked about the Asus cards had never actually used them before. I'll def. keep them in mind when I get around to shopping for one :D Cool. Everyone I asked about the Asus cards had never actually used them before.
I’ll def. keep them in mind when I get around to shopping for one :D

]]> By: alpha http://dbaines.com/blog/archive/mp3-players-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-8680 alpha Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:12:15 +0000 http://dbaines.com/blog/?p=287#comment-8680 Asus has pretty nice sound cards for a fairly reasonable price.  I have one of these right now (got it when my xfi died horribly), and it's been pretty great so far. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132001 Asus has pretty nice sound cards for a fairly reasonable price.  I have one of these right now (got it when my xfi died horribly), and it’s been pretty great so far.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829132001

]]> By: Baines http://dbaines.com/blog/archive/mp3-players-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-8675 Baines Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:26:48 +0000 http://dbaines.com/blog/?p=287#comment-8675 Yeah Creative suck as a sound card company. I had an Audigy 2, which isn't THAT old, that I had to ditch because they were too pussy to write decent code for Vista for it. The volume output was almost non-existent. I switched to my onboard card and now I can rock the house with my headphones plugged in. The only downside is that my onboard doesn't have 5.1 support :( I was looking at buying another sound card too and the only decent ones are either built by Creative or are built using their technology. I'll eventually upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in a few years, and I don't want to have to buy ANOTHER card just because they're too scared to support older cards. I think I'll just stick to onboard, they seem solid enough. For PMPs though it's either a Creative ZEN player or a Cowon A3 which is HUGE, but feature-filled and twice the price. I had really hoped that by now PMPs would be everywhere and have features coming out their wazoos. But for a power-user there's like, three options. Has Apple really scared away the opposition? They did a number on iRiver that's for sure, they aren't even touching apples market these days, and they've discontinued all their products that used to. I would take you up on your offer but I've already ordered one, thanks anyway :D Yeah Creative suck as a sound card company.
I had an Audigy 2, which isn’t THAT old, that I had to ditch because they were too pussy to write decent code for Vista for it. The volume output was almost non-existent. I switched to my onboard card and now I can rock the house with my headphones plugged in. The only downside is that my onboard doesn’t have 5.1 support :(
I was looking at buying another sound card too and the only decent ones are either built by Creative or are built using their technology. I’ll eventually upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out in a few years, and I don’t want to have to buy ANOTHER card just because they’re too scared to support older cards. I think I’ll just stick to onboard, they seem solid enough.

For PMPs though it’s either a Creative ZEN player or a Cowon A3 which is HUGE, but feature-filled and twice the price. I had really hoped that by now PMPs would be everywhere and have features coming out their wazoos. But for a power-user there’s like, three options.
Has Apple really scared away the opposition? They did a number on iRiver that’s for sure, they aren’t even touching apples market these days, and they’ve discontinued all their products that used to.

I would take you up on your offer but I’ve already ordered one, thanks anyway :D

]]> By: alpha http://dbaines.com/blog/archive/mp3-players-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-8658 alpha Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:52:35 +0000 http://dbaines.com/blog/?p=287#comment-8658 Why would you ever buy a creative product nowadays? They're horrible, they break, and when they break Creative says things like, "IT'S A PROBLEM WITH YOUR VIDEO CARD, GO TALK TO ATI" even though you have an nVidia card. Oh wait, we're talking about a mp3 player...? Also, I constantly feel sorry for people living in Australia who are interested in electronics or games. You guys are always somewhere to a month to several years behind. If you like, you can send me $300 in Australian Fun-Bucksâ„¢ and I'll buy it for ya. :P Why would you ever buy a creative product nowadays? They’re horrible, they break, and when they break Creative says things like, “IT’S A PROBLEM WITH YOUR VIDEO CARD, GO TALK TO ATI” even though you have an nVidia card.

Oh wait, we’re talking about a mp3 player…?

Also, I constantly feel sorry for people living in Australia who are interested in electronics or games. You guys are always somewhere to a month to several years behind. If you like, you can send me $300 in Australian Fun-Bucksâ„¢ and I’ll buy it for ya. :P

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