In colloquial terms, my hands are itchy (sau han). The other day, I saw this digital audio player from Samsung, affectionately known as the Yepp. It is a chewing gum stick styled audio player and it comes in a whole range of colours. The model that is being sold in Malaysia is the YP-U3 model and has a number of useful features.
There is nothing wrong with my existing MP3 player from Creative except for one tiny problem. It does not support Ogg playback. In my zealous drive for intellectual property purity, which includes staying away from all dodgy pirated DVD stalls in the pasar malam, I have begun to encode the music CDs that I own, into Ogg-Vorbis files.
So, it is starting to become a chore to encode my music in both, MP3 for my audio player, and Ogg for my computer. It would be so much easier to just do everything in Ogg.
The price of the 4Gb model is RM299 (£49) or thereabouts. It even has an FM radio, which the Creative model lacks. The only thing that is stopping me from outright buying it is the fact that my Zen is still in perfect working condition. The batteries even last for more than 10 hours. So, there is really no reason why it needs to be thrown away.
So, I guess that I will not be buying a new player anytime soon. I should probably wait till the battery life starts to go down to about 6-7 hours. Then, it would be pretty useless for long journeys or long days out. Furthermore, the new version of Amarok still does not support audio players that well yet. So, I should also let that mature first.
Sybreon Ones Nought 