Rio Karma

Not strictly music news, but this little gadget might be of interest to
some Ectophiles: Rio Karma is a portable player with support for FLAC
and Ogg Vorbis file formats, and software that will work with Linux and
MacOS X and even Solaris as well as Windows... If I understand this
correctly it will work with "other" OS's through a Java client,
connecting through its Ethernet docking station (comes standard with the
player). Ogg Vorbis support alone makes it interesting to me, since my
entire music collection is encoded in this format; I also imagine (and
hope) it means lack of any Digitally Crippled hoops to jump through.
I've been pretty lukewarm about iPods and the like, but this one seems
exactly like something I'd want: no rubbish, no "features" I'd never
want or use, no FM radios or recorders - just decent playback! It's
cheaper than iPod, too.
Here is the review I just read:
http://phataudio.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=195

And on another note, Go Barney, go! Let's hope he sticks around for a
few more years! 

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