Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th May 2005 18:29 UTC
Multimedia, AV Are you looking at buying a truly affordable & expandable mp3 player with an LCD screen & FM radio that just works? SanDisk's newest mp3 player Sansa might just be what you were looking for!
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FM quality?
by John Zheng on Thu 26th May 2005 20:15 UTC

How is the FM Quality on this? I got an iAudio 5, and while I'm satisfied overall with it, the FM reception was disappointing.

I am also disappointed there's no ogg support. I use ogg on my iAudio 5, works great. I did a listening test with my etymolic reasearch 4 earphones, and had a very very difficult time telling the difference at 200kbps equivalent encoding. I encoded at 160kbps encoding for the iAudio 5 since it has limited memory. 160 I could fairly consistently tell the difference with the source (FLAC), but it was very minor, and plenty good for portable use.

I think WMA encoding is supposed to be quite good also, however, fairly competitive with ogg. But more support always better, as it sux to have to re-encode to 3-4 different encodings depending on what format your portable supports (i.e., ogg on iAudio, aac on ipod, wma on sandisk).