Marneus68 writes:
"Pono, the Neil Young-endorsed Kickstarter project, is drawing more and more pledges. Now past the $2 million mark (with an expected goal of $800K), this project aims to create a audiophile friendly FLAC player along with its ecosystem (and by that they mean their own music store and syncing application).
The device itself features 2 audio outputs, one 'specially designed for headphones' and the other 'specifically designed for listening on your home audio system'. The player is controlled by an LCD touchscreen, and its triangular 'Toblerone' shape makes it easy to hold it upright with one hand or to lay it flat on surfaces. The player, which has 64GB of internal memory, comes together with a 64GB microSD card.
The board and its components, as well as a 'pre-prototype' model, are pictured in the project's Kickstarter page.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by cockroach on Thursday March 13 2014, @04:39PM
While this is interesting, it still doesn't seem to answer the question of whether a proprietary application will be required to put files on the player.
Also pff, saying "all your digital music" and not mentioning Ogg Vorbis. :)
(Score: 2) by stderr on Thursday March 13 2014, @05:30PM
And what about all my 8SVX and MOD files?!
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #