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Dang, now I feel like I'm looking for speakers and receivers all over again Thasp

But really, thanks for the article, I may have to look into some of these other models, especially the Kharma you mentioned. I think my boss has that one, as he does not believe in contributing to the Dark Side (Apple)

The old model iRiver IHP120 just got gapless playback yesterday with a beta firmware, too, if you're concerned about HD failures with the Karma. Not from iRiver, from an open source firmware project called rockbox. Once the bugs are fixed in this beta, they'll start work on iRiver's newer players.

Any information on the Sony's? I notice in my Crutchfield catalog, Sony makes a 20GB version that is about the size of a deck of cards.

Also, I don't see where Rio offers a 20GB model anymore, they do offer a 6GB on the website.

Another question I'm curious about, is there a way to take the audio from a DVD and create mp3, wma, etc.... I have some good music dvd's that I don't have on CD. I do have some ripping/decryptor dvd software, not sure if a person can take the AudioTS information and convert it?

I was wondering the same thing.
I have a David Gilmore DVD that has some tunes I would love to be able to convert to MP3 or WAV. files
Anyone?

Here's a good discussion at the AVS Forum.

It got discontinued, but it's still available from many online stores. Their next model should be out sometime in Autumn.

Thanks a lot Thasp!!

I had finally after months of debating decided that an IPOD was a good purchase and was just about to pull the trigger when I read that article. Arrggg. . . now what? Glad to have read it but might have enjoyed being ignorant on this . . .actually I take that back. The other two MP3 players I have owned do that annoying gap in tracks thing, and I hate it because I listen to a lot of live albums and lets face it many albums do have tracks that run right into eachother. . .more and more albums it seems. So it may be back to the drawing board waiting for somebody to make that just right player. Dang!

I have an article from "Mac Addict" that tells of a relatively easy way around that gap. I'll see if I can find it.
I know I reimported some of my Pink Floyd music and used that trick and it worked well. I just dont remember how to do it.