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2009-06-07T16:47:56Z

ProLan:

== Introduction ==
Here you'll find all mobile players known to natively support [[Vorbis]].

When updating this information, please consider these guidelines: Use the term Vorbis not <strike>OGG</strike>
. Add information about other Xiph-codecs such as Speex, FLAC, and Theora. Do not add information about non-Xiph-codecs such as MP3, WMA, or WAV.

== Flash Players Table ==
{| style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center;" class="wikitable sortable"
! Vendor
! Model
! Vorbis
! FLAC
! add. codecs
! FM
! Voice Rec
! Interface
! USB Mass storage
! MTP
! max. Capacity (GB)
! Estim. battery life
! other
! Estimated price
|-
! [[PortablePlayers#SanDisk_Sansa_Clip_and_Sansa_Fuze|SanDisk]]
! Sansa Clip
| yes
| yes
|
| yes
| yes
| USB 2.0
| yes
| yes
| 8 GB
| 8 h
| 28g weight
| 50 Eur
|-
! [[PortablePlayers#Cowon.2FiAudio_D2.2C_F2.2C_T2.2C_U3.2C_U2.2C_G3.2C_5.2C_G2.2C_U5.2C_7|Cowon]]
! iAudio U5
| yes
| yes
|
| yes
| yes
| USB
| yes
| no
| 8 GB
| 8 h
|
| 85 $
|-
! [[PortablePlayers#TrekStor.27s_blaxx.2C_iBeat_cody.2C_iBeat_organix_2.0.2C_iBeat_sonix.2C|Trekstor]]
| iBeat organix 2.0
| yes
|
|
|
| yes
| USB 2.0
| yes
| no
| 8 GB
| 50 h
|
| 50 Eur
|}

@wiki-admins: It looks like this mediawiki instance does not support [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Sorting#Secondary_sortkey sortable tables] and nice table cell templates (like in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BitTorrent_clients#Operating_system_support this example]). The support for this table related features would really improve this table layout.

== Flash Memory Storage ==

:in each description, please say if the device works "out of the box" or you have to install any software to use it properly (if the extra-software is optional, then it doesn't matter).

From the information below (see the "Chinese MP4" and "PowerUp!" items), it is possible that all Chinese made [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1_MP3_Player S1 MP3] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_MP4/MTV_player MP4] players can play the Ogg Vorbis file format, even though their manuals or advertisements do not mention this. Since many tens of millions of these units have been sold worldwide, there is a potentially huge, undocumented, base of portable media players which can play the Ogg Vorbis format. If you have one of these Chinese made players, just give it a try and see. [http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/126069 Here] is one cheap unbranded Chinese 1GB mp3 player that supports vorbis. 

It is appropriate to say that in brazilian consumer market, there are unbranded MP3 players such as [http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-71404870-mp3-player-2-gb-pen-drive-gravador-de-voz-radio-fm-_JM this one] that can flawlessly play Ogg Vorbis files. There are many of them branded as "Sony". I have tested one "Sony" and it does play Ogg Vorbis. If you have one of these players and know that they can play Ogg Vorbis, please inform which chipset these devices are equipped with. Many of these players can also be identified as having the following writings "MP3/WMA/FM/REC". All these are basically 1GB/2GB USB pen drives. 

=== [http://www.netonnet.se/item.asp?iid=61510 Avant] MP-8256, MP-8512, MP-81000 ===
:No official website, product no longer available for purchase, but three models existed: MP-8256 (256MB memory), MP-8512 (512MB) and MP-81000 (1GB). Some features are a small colour display, 5-band Equalizer, FM-stereo radio, Line in, Microphone, and Charging via USB2.0.

=== [http://www.bang-olufsen.com/page.asp?id=374 Bang & Olufsen] BeoSound 6 ===
:It has 4GB of storage, USB 1.1 and 2.0 support and a small TFT LCD color display. Although advertised as Windows and Mac OS 9.2 and higher only, the device is a Mass Storage device and is perfectly usable in Linux as well. Supports Vorbis quality levels up to Q10. B&O have co-operated with Samsung to develop the device.

=== [http://www.centon.com/ Centon CraZe] ===
:8G model (at least) from Buy.com seems to have either s1mp3 or sigmatel chipset, worked fresh out of box. It is USB rechargeable device with monochrome LCD and multicolored backlight plus FM stereo. Doc only mentions mp3 and wma, not vorbis.

=== [http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7996764346.html Cool-Karaoke] ===
:The DRM-free Cool-Karaoke supports MP3, OGG, WAV, and FLAC audio formats and MPG, AVI, and FLV video formats. Runs an ARM920t processor clocked to 400MHz, with 4GB and up NAND Flash. Battery charges through USB cable. Built in equalizer allows tuning down the voice freqencies for sing-alongs.

=== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_MP4/MTV_player Chinese MP4 players sold on eBay] ===
: I've tried two different MP4 nano lookalikes from different manufacturers and different eBay sellers, and both will play Ogg Vorbis fine, even though none of the documentation or product advertisements say this. Before you buy one, you should check out the eBay FAQ on MP4 players first.

=== Coby MP-C7052 ===
:While it does support Vorbis, buyer beware. Poor ratings at [http://reviews.cnet.com/mp3-players/coby-mp-c7052-512mb/4505-6490_7-32466874.html cnet.com]: "utterly fails at its intended purpose"

=== [http://www.cowonamerica.com Cowon/iAudio] D2, F2, T2, U3, U2, G3, 5, G2, U5, 7 ===
:NOTE: The U3 and 7 both are buggy with Vorbis, in that they exhibit artifacts in the lower frequency range. As of firmware 1.29 on the U3, and 1.17 on the 7, both are broken. Cowon fixed this on the D2 about firmware 2.41 onward. By way of a code examination, it appears the U5 does not suffer from this bug (On Cowon players that have the issue, there is a hex string which matches a low precision table. On the ones that do not have the issue, it has the correct normal precision value. This is referring to the Tremor decoder used). Most people describe this as a mild high pitched squeak. See this forum [http://www.cowonamerica.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13253 post] for more details. Some also say the iriver Clix 2 has this issue as well. Cowon on the D2 firmware page does not specifically mention that they fixed this issue.
:The iAudio U2 is a small flash-based player (256MB/512MB/1GB) and supports Vorbis. Early U2 releases required a firmware upgrade for Vorbis support; as of September 2005 this support was included in the retail version. The iAudio G3 and iAudio 5 offer up to 2GB, and support Ogg Vorbis out-of-the-box. The G2 has storage from 256 MB up to 1 GB and supports the same formats. iAudio U3 is Cowon's last candy bar form factor flash-based player with a 5 way navigation control. It also supports FLAC and MPEG-4 video. All these players will talk to Linux or Mac (but the included software is Windows only. You'll need Windows for firmware updates.).
:The G3, and most likely the other models as well, supports Ogg Vorbis from q0. Quality settings q-1 and q-2 (from the aoTuV ogg encoder) are not supported. It supports the meta tags ''album'' (limited length) and ''title''.
:iAudio F2 flash memory, 512MB/1GB/2GB versions supporting Vorbis and FLAC. USB 2.0, supports Linux and Mac (Windows needed for firmware updates).
:iAudio T2 flash memory 1GB/2GB, supports Vorbis. USB 2.0, supports Linux and Mac (Windows needed for firmware updates).
:iAudio 7 is Cowon's current small form factor flash based player with touch controls for most functions and comes in 4, 8 and 16GB versions and supports Vorbis and FLAC. USB 2.0 file transfer, Linux and Mac compatible (including firmware updates). Reading Ogg tags not supported (requires browsing music in 'files' mode rather than in 'tags' mode).
:iAudio D2 comes in 4, 8 or 16GB capacities and can use SD and SDHC flash memory cards, supports music and movies supporting FLAC and Vorbis. USB 2.0 file transfer, Linux and Mac compatible (including firmware updates).
:The ''iAudio U5'' is a player with 8 GB flash and USB (speed is at USB 1.0 level). The player is out of the box configurable as USB-mass-storage-device or MTP-device. It is available since early 2008. It supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC since at least firmware 2.10. A firmware update is possible in mass-storage-mode, i.e. without additional proprietary software. The firmware is available at the US and Global site. The 2.10 firmware has multi language support, i.e. you can select for example english as language after flashing. Note however, that the FLAC/Vorbis firmware loses support for tag based browsing (as of version 3.16).

=== Craig ===
:Model No. CMP622E. 2GB. Even if the package of this product does not mention .ogg support it does! I bought this at a CVS pharmacy.

=== D-Wave 9830 ===
:Polish player with 2GB of internal memory. Supports Vorbis and has a FM radio, TFT display, ebook reader.

=== [http://www.audiodaihatsu.com.ar/productos.asp?cat=17 Daihatsu] D-Z40, D-Z20, D-Z10 ===
:Daihatsu sells in Argentina 1, 2 and 4 GB music players that support vorbis Q0 to Q10 out of the box. I tested the D-Z40 one. Maybe they are available under a different brand in othe places.

=== [http://www.ebuyer.com/search?store=73&cat=45 Ebuyer] Stage MP3/MP4 Players ===
:There are several cheap mp3/4 players like this on ebuyer, and other sites. The Stage Tiny [http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132912] supports ogg so I guess that the others would too. This is also confirmed for the Stage Zoom MP3 Player Voice FM [http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132932] (although it doesn't read OGG tags, and the user interface is not the smoothest). They have a very good sound quality and are reasonably priced. I think these use a generic chipset like the chinese ones linked above. The AAA-battery-powered Stage card reader [http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132916] appears to only play MP3 and has some hiss.

=== ENOX EMX-830, EMX-900, EMX-530 ===
:'The lightest and the smallest one among AAA type MP3 players.' Supports MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV, and Ogg Vorbis, has FM tuner, line-in and mic with direct MP3 encoding. Comes with 128/256/512/1024MB flash memory and USB 2.0 interface. The EMX-900 has up to 1 GB storage and supports the same file formats.

=== EZAV T2, EMP-600, EMP-500, EMP-400 ===
:All players support Ogg Vorbis, MP3, ASF, and WMA codecs, FM radio recording (FM, voice, and line-in). The EMP-400 has 256MB and 512MB storage. The other players have storage options up to 1GB. The EMP-600 and T2 have full color displays and add support for a proprietary video format.

=== [http://www.fascin8.co.uk/f8/index.php/tevion/mp4/6940/11-mp4/42-6940 Fascin8] 6940 (Tevion) ===
:Sold in the UK at the ALDI supermarket stores, under their brand name "Tevion" the 6940 model is a 2GB multimedia player that can receive DAB radio and has a colour screen for viewing Jpegs and movies. It connects via a USB2 interface, and appears as a mass storage device. It claims to play Vorbis files, and does so without problems. The USB connector at the player end is non-standard, but extra cables can be obtained from the manufacturer.

=== [http://www.gp2x.com/ Gamepark Holdings] GP2X ===
:Linux-based handheld audio/video/game player. Uses SD cards for storage, removable batteries (AA) providing 6-8 hours of music listening.

=== [http://www.grundig.de/ Grundig ] MPaxx 920 ===
:Very small and simple device with 2GB at a low price (about 25 EUR). Although not mentioned anywhere on the homepage or inside the documentation of this device, it is capable of playing also Ogg Vorbis files out of the box. It connects via USB 2.0 cable (with which the internal accumulator is charged) and acts like a mass storage device, which is formatted via FAT32 filesystem.

=== i-BEAD 170, 400, 600 ===
:The i-BEAD 170 & 400 models are small, light flash-based players with built in Lithium-Polymer batteries. They also have OLED displays, and FM & line-in recording. Both are available in 256MB/512MB/1GB and both support Ogg Vorbis after a firmware upgrade. The i-BEAD 600 has up to 2 GB storage and is very small and supports Ogg Vorbis out of the box. PLEASE NOTE: Ogg Vorbis files encoded using pre-1.0 versions of the encoder will not work with these players.

=== [http://www.imedian.co.kr/ iMedian] M-Cody M-20, MX-100, 250, 400, 300, 500, 700 ===
:According to the homepage, they support Ogg Vorbis (besides MP3, WMA (some devices w/ DRM), ASF, WAV). Some come with a FM Receiver, USB 2.0 and work even as IR remote. One has a OLED, the others have colour LCDs. Battery and memory is internal. I infer from a review that the MX-100 is the same as a Rio SU70, but I haven't found any information about that rio gadget, though. The M-20 is the newest model, a thin portable in response to the iPod Shuffle. It looks exactly like Maxfield's Max-Sin Touch.

=== [http://www.insignia-products.com/c-22-mp3-player.aspx Insignia] Pilot and Sport ===
:Both are sold by Best Buy and advertised to support Ogg Vorbis. The Pilot supports Ogg Vorbis and GNU/Linux out of the box. Haven't tried the Sport. 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models available. The Sport does not support any tags. Ogg files can not be used in playlists. Ogg files can not be shuffled. Thus, there is no way to order the files. Windows shows an error that the format is not supported when dragging over ogg files to the player. All also support bluetooth.

=== [http://www.iops.co.kr/enghome/index.html Iops] X7, Z5, Z3, F5, F4, MFP-312, MFP-325, MFP-350 ===
:Newer players offer video and photo support (X7, Z5, F5). Iops offers the MFP-300 series player with 128/256/512MB/1GB internal flash memory. They offer voice and FM radio recording whilst maintaining a lightweight portable size.

=== [http://www.iriver.com/ iRiver's] E100, iFP-3xx, iFP-5xx, iFP-7xx, iFP-8xx, iFP-9xx, iFP-10xx, iFP-11xx, Lplayer, T7, T10, T20, T30, T50, T60, U10, Clix, Clix2, X20 ===
:iRiver has a huge line of flash-based players with various memory sizes (128MB to 2GB). Some of these players may need an updated firmware in order to play Ogg Vorbis files, see the [http://www.iriveramerica.com/support/ support download page] for that. Note — on older players, only certain bitrates are supported, various problems are reported including reboots, silence and random noise when a VBR Vorbis passes outside the limit (either under 96Kbps or over 225 Kbps). Newer players don't have this limitation. However, please be alerted that many of the newer players, such as the Clix, use the Microsoft MTP transfer protocol exclusively so they only work with Windows, whereas other players may be shipped with MTP, but have alternate non-MTP firmware available for download. Tag support not present on U10/Clix (others also?), so Vorbis files will appear under 'unknown artist'/'unknown album'. Please note that the H10 model does not (yet?) support ogg, and can operate in both MTP and UMS (mass storage) modes. [http://easyh10.sf.net./ More information]. Confirmed that the T50 and T60 players support Ogg Vorbis, use UMS and have complete tag support out of the box.
** The iRiver Clix 4GB ('''not''' the iRiver Clix gen 2) available at [[http://www.bhphotovideo.com/]] supports Ogg Vorbis audio and metadata (artist/album/song names). The following notes apply:
*** The latest firmware, 2.6.0.0, was installed during the test. It is not known whether or not this is required for Ogg Vorbis support.
*** Windows XP SP2 with Windows Media Player 11 (or later) is absolutely required. '''Windows Media Player 10 will not work.'''
*** MTP is the only method to access the device. '''UMS will not work.'''
*** Once Windows Media Player 11 has been installed, other programs such as Windows Explorer or Winamp can be used to load Vorbis songs normally.
*** Do not confuse the iRiver Clix with the iRiver Clix gen 2. These notes apply only to the iRiver Clix.

=== [http://www.jensofsweden.com/ Jens Of Sweden's] MP-120, MP-130, MP-400, MP-450, MP-500 ===
:The MP-130 is a portable player with flash memory in 128/256/512MB sizes. This appears to be a rebranded Iops player. The MP-400 is a tiny machine with lots of features (line in, mic, fm radio, usb 2.0). With the updated 4.1 firmware it supports Ogg Vorbis files encoded with libvorbis version 1.0rc2 or later. When trying to play files encoded with earlier versions it freezes on playback, requiring an USB connect or reset button pressed (through a tiny hole) to wake up again. The MP-120, a 1Gb flash player, supports Ogg Vorbis with a firmware upgrade since March 2005. MP-120 still doesn't play old Ogg Vorbis files, but they don't make it freeze up. The MP-450 is basically a MP-400 with color display.

=== [http://www.jnc-digital.com/Eng/ JNC's] SSF-2002, SSF-2005 ===
:These are flash-based players with 256 MB respectively 512 MB storage capacity. They have the usual FM radio which can be recorded in addition to voice. They also have a 1,9" color display.

=== [http://www.kingston.com/ Kingston] [http://www.kingston.com/flash/kpex.asp K-PEX 100] ===
:Two versions available but are now discontinued (as at March 2007): with 1 GB or 2 GB internal memory. Both models have an extra miniSD memory card storage slot. Ogg playback is sticky at high quality settings. (firmware v2.09) The internal equalizer is disabled when playing ogg. (firmware v2.09) This device is a rebranded Cenix GMP-M6.

=== [http://www.lexar.com/mp3/index.html Lexar's] LDP-800 ===
:Available from 03/2005 the LDP-800 is offering MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis Support with 256/512MB storage. It has a digital out, FM receiver and transmitter, can record from FM, mic and line-in and has a SD-card slot. Includes Sennheiser earbuds. Update: A telephoned sales representative informed on 2005-04-15 that this player would be available sometime in June. Update again: A sales representative telephoned on 2005-06-20 again stated that the player would be available sometime in June. However, a sales representitave at [http://www.ecost.com/ eCOST], an online store carrying the LDP-800, stated that their availability date is now 2005-07-15. Lexar now seem to have dropped this product. See discussion.

=== [http://www.lowrance.com/ Lowrance's] iFINDER Expedition C, Hunt C, PhD, iWay 350C, possibly others. ===
:GPS units, certain models, support playing MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files stored on the SD/MMC card, which is primarily there to hold map files and route/track data. The item descriptions only mention mp3, you have to dig into the manual or actually use the device to discover Vorbis support. What a nice surprise! Many units seem to include voice-recorder functionality too, for tagging waypoints with audio notes, but it's not clear what codec they record in.

=== [http://www.lge.com.au/ LG's] UPANW5HSSI, UPANW1GSSI, UPANL1GSSI, UPANR1GSSI, UPANB1GSSI, FM30 ===
: Flash players with 512MB and 1GB capacity. The have no display other than a single multicolour LED. New FM30 model has a large colour display.

=== [http://www.maxfield.de/ Maxfield's] Max-Ivy, Max-Diamond, Max-Movie, Max-Diablo, Max-Sin Touch ===
: The Max-Diamond supports MP3, Ogg Vorbis and WMA (DRM). It has 512MB flash memory and can record from FM radio. The Max-Movie has 1GB storage and supports DivX, MP3 WMA (DRM) and Ogg Vorbis. It also has FM radio and a display with 260.000 colors. The Max-Diablo supports the same audio formats, but can also display pictures and videos on its small OLED (4096 colors). It has 1GB storage. Max-Sin Touch has 512 MB or 1 GB internal memory. Not to be confused with Maxfield Max-Sin, which doesn't have ogg support. Max-Sin Touch looks exactly like M-Cody M-20.

:: While the Max-Sin Touch does play Ogg Vorbis, it only does so with occasional glitches, at least with a device bought in November 2006. Perhaps a future firmware upgrade might help, but I'm skeptical. At this time, I cannot recommend the player. ― [[User:Eloquence|Eloquence]] 22:48, 22 November 2006 (PST)
::: It looks like there won't be any firmware upgrades in future. Maxfield GmbH became insolvent in january.

=== [http://www.mbird.co.kr/ M-bird's] XT-22S, XR-22 ===
: Available in 256MB/512MB/1GB sizes. USB 2.0. Supports Ogg Vorbis (although it doesn't seem to view tag info, will probably be fixed in future firmwares (?)), but also MP3 and WMA. It has small 200 mW built-in speaker. Inverted display with the ability to choose the foreground colour in 125 steps. Other features include FM-radio, voice recorder (built-in mic), line-in, alarm, and more. While XR-22 support memory upto 2GB and functions are similar to XT-22S.

=== [http://en.meizu.com/ Meizu] M6 miniPlayer ===
:Available in 1/2/4GB capacities. USB 2.0. Supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC as well as MP3, MP2, WMA. DRM10 support should be supported with future firmware updates. 2.4", 260k color display, text, photo (BMP, JPG, GIF), and video (AVI), FM radio/recording, built-in mic for voice recording. English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and partial Hebrew language support. You can buy an an external battery pack which is rumored to enable USB On-The-Go support sometime in the future.

=== [http://www.mobiblu.com/ MobiBLU] Cube2, DAH-2100, US2, BOXON ===
: All the above players support Ogg Vorbis (Q1-Q10). The B153 and DAH-1500i models do not mention ogg Vorbis in their specifications

=== MP3 MP-8256, MP-8512, MP-81000 ===
:Looks like another whitebox label. No official website found yet, but three models are offered in shops: MP-8256 with 256MB memory, MP-8512 (512MB) and MP-81000 (1GB). Plays not only Ogg Vorbis, but [[MP3]], [[WMA]] and even BMP and Textfiles via small colour display. USB 2.0 interface. Sufficient quality in playback and recording (Radio/Line-In).

=== [http://www.mpmaneurope.com/product.aspx?product_id=77 MPMan] MP-FUB34 MP-CS157 ===
:The mpman FUB34 and FUB35 are available (March 2007) in the UK in electrical stores such as Comet and come in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB and 1GB memory sizes. They appear to be a Chinese S1 MP3 player. Although no mention is made of Ogg Vorbis support in the documentation or on the website (only MP3 & WMA), the format is supported. MP-CS157 is a multi-media player, supporting Ogg/Vorbis as well, even if there is no mention on the box.

=== [http://mpeye.net/ MPeye] TS-400 ===
:a flash player which comes in 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB sizes, has a FM-receiver, colour display and a voice recorder.

=== Mustek MC-1503F ===
:Portable player with 1,5" colour display and 2GB of memory. The manual suggests that there are versions from 256MB to 4GB available. It only mentions MP3, WMA and WAV as supported formats but OGG Vorbis playback apparently works fine.

=== [http://www.muzio.co.kr/ Muzio's] JM200, JM250, JM300 ===
:Another Korean manufacturer jumps in and offers small flash-based players with 128MB up to 1GB storage capacities. They support the usual formats MP3/WMA/Ogg Vorbis, can record voice, receive FM radio.

=== [http://www.nextar.com/ Nextar] 933A-1B ===
:This is an inexpensive flash-based player with 1G memory. (Recently purchased on sale for $18 US at K-mart) It comes in various other memory sizes, and I suspect these other models will also play Ogg Vorbis files. There is no mention on thier web site, or in the documentation that these will play Ogg Vorbis. The "drive formatting" on this device is strange, to be able to mount this device under Linux, I had to delete all partitions (showed as 4 non-standard partitions under Linux fdisk) in linux, then put the device in a windows XP machine and recreate a single partition and format as FAT. (Simply recreating a single partition and formatting as FAT under linux didn't allow the device to see the files copied to it.)

:This seems to work on other Nextar models including MA933A

=== [http://www.neurostechnology.com/ Neuros'] Neuros II ===
:The Neuros II can be used as a stand-alone flash-player. You can later buy an HDD "backpack" from 20 to 80 gigs in size and switch the backpacks as you please. This player now has a [http://open.neurosaudio.com/ free software (open-source) firmware].

=== [http://pentagram.com.tw/ Pentagram] Vanquish R SKIT ===
2 or 4 GB of storage memory, USB 2.0, weighs 23 grams, plays OGG, MP3, WMA, WAV and ASF, 1.1" OLED screen.

=== [http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1532817&Sku=TC3G-5012 PowerUp!] 1GB USB Player ===
: Power Up! brand 1GB player, available from [http://www.tigerdirect.com TigerDirect]. The unit is either the standard S1 or Centon 1GB USB player or a clone thereof. There is no mention of Ogg Vorbis support in any of the literature, but my unit plays ogg files. Bonus!

=== [http://www.pre-view.com.tw Preview Technology] ===
:Makes a number of OGG-Vorbis compatable players. Although only a handful of their players claim support for Vorbis, it appears that OGG Vorbis works on some of the models where it is not advertised. Their players are being re-branded sold as inexpensive "MP4" players. Many players by Ergotech, Vakoss, and Zicplay are based on designs by Preview.

=== [http://eng.qoolqee.com/ Qoolqee's] K7 ===
:This is an interesting mix of a flash-based MP3 player and an organizer: the player has 512/1024 MB storage and contact and calendar functions and can sync with Outlook. It supports MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis, has FM radio and connectors for two headphones.

=== [http://www.allpmp.org/2008/09/20/ramos-t8-review/ RAmos] T8 ===
:Lightweight 4.3-inch touchscreen screen. Screen resolution of 480×272. Uses USB connection. Based on the Rockchip RK2706 chipset.

=== [http://rovermedia.ru/ RoverMedia] ARIA X7 ===
:A portable Vorbis/MP3/WMA player with 512MB - 4GB internal flash memory, FM-receiver, recording function, picture viewer, video player.

=== [http://www.samsung.com/Products/ Samsung] / [http://www.yepp.co.kr/ Yepp] (product label), YP-C1, YP-F1, YP-MT6, YP-P2, YP-S2, YP-S3, YP-T6, YP-T7, YP-T9, YP-T10, YP-U1, YP-U2, YP-U3, YP-U4, YP-Z5, YP-53 ===
:Many Yepp players support Ogg, please see [[PortablePlayers/SamsungYepp]] for more details about each model. Note: many of these models being sold into DRM-sensitive markets (e.g. the United States) are configured as MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) devices rather than as USB mass-storage drives (UMS) and may require the use of specialized software on any system with which you use them. Samsung provides Windows drivers with these devices, which may or may not be necessary on Windows systems (recent versions of Windows Media Player reportedly support these devices without a specific driver). Using MTP-based players on non-Windows PCs will require installation of additional software. Linux support for at least some of these devices is available through [http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/ libmtp] and the "generic MTP device" plugin in [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok]. Read the specifications on the box carefully; if it says it depends on Windows Media Player, then it's probably an MTP device which may need Windows drivers or other MTP support software.
*The Samsung S3 (YP-S3) is (as of August 2008) a low-cost, internal flash memory player, with official out of the box support. Includes video screen. List price $80.
*The [http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=mp3audiovideo&type=mp3player&subtype=mp3player&model_cd=YP-P2AB/XME Samsung P2 (YP-P2)] is an ogg vorbis supporting touch based digital audio player (2GB, 4GB, 8GB... and a 16GB likely to arrive in the U.S. early 2009, already available in Korea, Fall of 2008). The P2 also has FM radio and stereo bluetooth. In the U.S. it is likely that the device ships with MTP, but it is possible to switch it to UMS mode. Read through [http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25784&highlight=samsung+games+pack this post/guide] (from anythingbutipod.com) for instructions. Vorbis playback is only available in UMS mode. As of November 2008, the 8GB player is available for between $150 and $180.

=== [http://www.sansa.com/players SanDisk] Sansa Clip and Sansa Fuze ===
:As of May 2008, these two Sansa models '''officially''' support Ogg Vorbis and FLAC playback. The ''Clip''-series is smaller, weighs less than one ounce (28 g - the 8 GB version; as of Feb 2009), and less expense. It features USB 2.0 cable, FM tuner with presets, microphone, and belt clip. Available in 1, 2, 4 and 8 GB built-in memory. It works per default as usb mass storage device. The audio file navigation is based on an internal tag-library (artist, album etc.). This library is kept in sync by the player, when the Sansa Clip is used as USB mass storage device. Audiobooks and Podcasts are organized in special categories by the player navigation system.
:The ''Fuze''-series is larger and weighs two ounces. It also features a USB 2.0 cable, FM tuner with presets, microphone, and video display (for Mpeg-4 video). Available in 2, 4, and 8GB built-in memory and microSD/SDHC expansion.
Official support is provided for this operating system through their message forum.

See also:
* [http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&thread.id=6720&view=by_date_ascending&page=1 Official firmware upgrade FAQ]
* [http://forums.sandisk.com/sansa/board/message?board.id=clip&message.id=10832&query.id=3787#M10832 Summary: Don't repartition your device if you don't know what you are doing]

=== [http://www.signeo.co.jp Signeo] / [http://www.signeo.co.jp/products/sn-a800/ SN-A800], [http://www.signeo.co.jp/products/sn-m700/ SN-M700], [http://www.signeo.co.jp/products/sn-m600/ SN-M600]. ===
:(2006-01-08) Seen in many electronics stores in Japan. The SN-A800 looks incredible — smaller than the iPod Nano, I think. I've not been able to try any for sound quality. Signeo also makes a hard drive player that supports vorbis. Their 2005-12 sales brochure claims Linux compatability for the SN-M600 and SN-M700.

=== Sumvision 1GB SV04-M18 ===
:My test ogg file was created using the timidity midi player, and the format was checked using mplayer, which used the ffvorbis codec to play back the same file. While this is a Chinese made MP3 player, another Sumvision player I have does not appear to play ogg vorbis files. The SV04-M18 works as a USB mass storage device.

=== [http://www.supportplus.cn/ SupportPlus'] SP-Advance ===
:Found this player in the local supermarket. The player is very small, has a 1 inch colour LCD and 1 GB of storage. Supports audio and video incl. Ogg Vorbis. The SP-Advance is not listed on their web site, but among the ones that are on the web site the 1-inch HDD Super Slim Jukebox claims Ogg Vorbis support.

=== [http://www.swissbit.com/ Swissbit's] Swissmemory s.beat ===
:The s.beat is sort of an original piece of hardware, as, you may have guessed it, it is a swiss army knife with an MP3 player. It supports Ogg Vorbis too and comes in sizes of 1 up to 4 GB.

=== T-Budd ===
:Korean company who makes wonderdull piece of hardware : TLN-100 which comes in 512 Mb or 1 Go. Supports MPEG 1/2/2.5/3 layer 3, WMA, ASF et OGG, PLF (proprietary video format) and works with two AAA batteries. Nice OLED display. FM radio. Very quick memory transfers. Not a usbkey type player, but a small USB adaptator is furnished, and allows the device to be plugged directly on a USB standard plug. USB2 Mass storage implemented : works perfectly under Linux.

=== [http://www.teac.com/ TEAC's] MP-400 ===
:The MP-400 is a flash-player with either 512MB or 1024MB storage. (As of 01-2009, could not find product sold online.)

=== Tekmax T-1000 [http://www.ioneit.com/ "ioneit"] ===
:256/512/1024 MB USB-connected mass storage device (flash based, uses FAT16, OS independent), 64K 4.41cm² color display, MP3/WMA/ASF/OGG support, equalizer and "3D sound", FM tuner, bookmark system, clock, stopwatch, alarm timer, record from microphone/FM as MP3, dual output, firmware upgradeable. Size: 3.5x8x1.7cm @ 40 grams. 16 hours of battery life.

=== [http://www.t-logic.it/ T-Logic] TL-258 ===
:Either 2048, 4096, or 8192MB storage. Vorbis, FLAC, and MPEG-4 playback. Very small player with touch sensitive pad and FM radio.

=== [http://www.trekstor.de/ TrekStor's] blaxx, iBeat cody, iBeat organix 2.0, iBeat sonix, ===
:The blaxx (also video-player) comes with TFT-disply and 2GB or 4 GB. The iBeat cody (also video-player) comes with 2/4 GB storage has a 262K color TFT-display. The iBeat organix 2.0 comes with a 2 color OLED, approx. 55h battery and 4GB or 8GB. The iBeat sonix has a large display that can be used to watch movies. It comes in sizes from 1GB to 4GB and batteries last for a period of approx. 45 hours. All player support Linux from kernel 2.4.x (identified as USB mass storage device).

:The iBeat organix 2.0 supports Ogg Vorbis out of the box. It also reads tags from media files and stores their information in an internal database so one can then search through all songs by artist, album title, song title, year etc., regardless of the actual directory structure. This works with Ogg Vorbis files, even with UTF-8 encoded "special characters" in the tags - at least roman characters with diacritics (like in ''Komm süßes Kreuz''), also ones not belonging to latin-1 (like in ''Dvořák'').

=== [http://www.turbolinux.com/ Turbolinux's] [http://www.turbolinux.com/products/wizpy/ Wizpy] ===

=== Wigo's CVM-101, CVM-103, CVM-300, CVS-100 ===
:Korean players with slick design, comes in 128/256/512/1024 MB depending on models. Support MP3/WMA/Ogg, FM receiver, voice recorder. Note: Ogg bitrates supported may be limited, check the manufacturer's specification for each device for details.

=== Xcent XT100 ===
:This player is sold in the U.K. and comes with 256/512MB. Supports Linux and BSD. (As of 01-2009 could not find product online.)

=== [http://www.yuraku.com.sg/ Yuraku] [http://www.yuraku.com.sg/proddetails.asp?prodid=90&catid=38 Yur.Beat Fusion Stream] ===
:This is a 1GB-Flash-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_media_player PMP], that also have a MicroSD card slot. The playback-function supports AAC, ADPCM, AIFF, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and WMA, the streaming-function MP3, WMA. FM- and Internet Radio (via "vTuner Internet Radio Index Service") are also available. PC Connection is possible via mini USB type B, USB 2.0 high speed or Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/g standards).

== Harddisk Storage ==

=== [http://www.airlinktek.com/ AL Tech's] MG-25, MG-35, MG350HD ===
:The Mediagate MG-25 is a portable HDD that supports also media playback. It uses a 2,5" disk and USB2.0 to connect, and supports MPEG-1/-2/-4, DivX, Xvid, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, JPG. It can upsample to HDTV, has composite, component and s-video outs, stereo and a digital out. Remote control is included. The MG-35 uses a 3,5" HDD instead, supports WMA and ethernet. The MG350HD uses a 3,5" HDD as well and supports HDTV. There is a wiki page with an faq [http://mediagate.pbwiki.com/ here].

=== [http://www.apple.com/ipod Apple's] iPod* ===
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>''The native iPod firmware doesn't support Ogg Vorbis.'' You can, however, install [http://www.rockbox.org/ RockBox] or [http://www.ipodlinux.org/ iPodLinux] on all iPod models (except for the Shuffle and Nano 2nd gen). RockBox supports tags, and a number of other formats. The larger iPod models have up to 80 GB HDDs.

=== [http://www.boghe.com Boghe] Vip20 ===
:The Vip20 seems to be similar to the iBeat 500 from TrekStor and Xclef HD-800. It has the same features: MP3, WMA, WAV, Ogg Vorbis decoding plus 20 GB storage.

=== [http://www.cmt21.com/index_eng.php Creative Mind (CMTECH)'s] U250 ===
:Seems to be a Korean supplier to Samsung who also sells own branded players. Works as pendrive, encodes MP3 from line-in (same jack as the headphone), FM radio and microphone. Has built in loudspeaker. Plays back Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and WMA. Does not display ISO-885902 accented characters from my Vorbis comments. :-(

=== [http://www.commodore.net/ Commodore's] eVic ===
:The eVic has 20GB storage and plays WMA (incl. DRM), MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It can record voice and music, and has USB host functionality. In Hardware version M03-002, firmware 2.203 '''serious problems''' with ogg playback while using the ''Equalizer'' are present (disturbing crackling noises). (An email inquiry to Commodore International Corporation replied "eVic's new firmware is still developing. The new version will safe the issue with ogg playback while using the Equalizer.") USB host functionality seems not to be implemented yet at all.

=== [http://www.cowonamerica.com COWON America's] [http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/tvix/ Dvico TViX][http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/ 2] ===
:This is a rather unique device; a multimedia jukebox, music tank, photo album and last but not least a portable storage. It is bigger than usual portable devices, but has also a lot more options. It can connect to the PC (USB 2.0), TV (S-Video, Composite), stereos and 5.1 surround systems (Coaxial/Optical) and comes with a remote control. Supported video formats are DVD (MPEG-2), VCD (MPEG-1), DivX, Xvid. Supported Audio formats are MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis (and [http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/ mkv] with firmware upgrade). It can display JPEG pictures on the TV. It is available without a harddrive, or equipped with harddrive sizes up to 200 GB.

=== [http://www.cowonamerica.com Cowon iAudio] M3, M5, X5, A2, 6, 7 ===
:The iAudio M3 is a portable harddisk player with either 20 or 40 GB of storage. It has a built-in FM radio and mic. It supports MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and WAV and even FLAC with the newest firmware upgrade. See this [http://gear.ign.com/articles/522/522090p1.html IGN article] for more info. The M5 has 20 GB storage and supports the same formats. The X5 is similarly designed (storage sizes of 20GB, 30GB, 60GB) and can play MPEG-4 videos. It has a 1.8 inch LCD with 260,000 colors and USB OTG (On-The-Go) feature. The A2 is released in November 2005 and is a widescreen mobile video player. It has a 480 x 272 pixel screen and supports the above metioned set of audio, video and image formats. The tiny iAudio 6 features a 4 Gb 0.85" harddisk and supports both OGG and FLAC. The M3, M5, X5, and A2 (probably the 6 as well) all act as USB mass storage devices, which means they are supported by Linux and Mac. The software is windows-only, though.
:'''Comment tag support''' — The iaudio X5 supports the ''artist'' (limited length), ''album'', and ''title'' comment tags.

=== [http://www.digmind.com/ Digital Mind Corporation's] DMC 8280 ===
:The 8280 has 20 GB or 30 GB storage, plays Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and WMA. Standard feature set; this player does not excel in any area but price. USB mass storage compliant — you can put songs on it from non-Windows computers, but full indexing of the songs for reference by artist etc. requires Windows.

=== [http://www.emtec-international.com/ Emtec's] Movie Cube ===
:The Movie Cube comes with a 2,5" HDD with 40 or 80 GB size. It supports the playback of various audio and video formats including Ogg Vorbis. The package includes some AV cables and a remote control.

=== [http://www.freecom.com/ Freecom's] MediaPlayer-3, Network MediaPlayer-35 Drive-In ===
:The MediaPlayer-3 is again sort of an external HDD that can play media without a PC. It supports DivX, MP3, MPEG-4, AVI, WMA, ASF and Ogg Vorbis. The product with the complicated name Network MediaPlayer-35 Drive-In is an enhanced version of the MediaPlayer-3 — it has an additional network interface and supports an internal 3,5" drive. The ethernet port can be used to read media from the network, but cannot be used as network attached storage.

=== [http://www.godot.com.tw/ GoDot] M8170, M8270, M8370, M8470, M8570 ===
:GoDot's HD players have capacity ranging from 2.2gb to 20gb. Each model is very different. They support Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and WMA (some models support DRM).

=== [http://www.hama.de/portal?lid=2 Hama's] VSV-20/VSV-40 ===
:The VSV-20/VSV-40 has the usual mobile MP3 HDD player size and can read/write from its 16in1 memory card reader and 20 GB or 40 GB internal HDD. But it can do more than audio (MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AAC). It supports image (JPEG) and video (MPEG-1/-4) playback on the 2" display and on a connected TV. It even includes a remote control. Beware: Hama has suspended OggVorbis support. However, there is a Firmware update promised to reestablish OggVorbis. If you plan to buy a device check the [http://www.hama.de/service/download/firmware/index.hsp Firmware download page] or better [http://www.hama.de/portal/pageId*2276/action*3499 ask them] about the current status of OggVorbis support.

=== [http://eng.iaudio.com/ iAudio] ===
:See Cowon iAudio above.

=== [http://www.idream-multimedia.com/liste.php?cid=9 iDREAM] Jukebox 2.2 GB, 3.3 GB and 4 GB ===
:Those HDD players support OGG and Encode MP3 from Line-In.

=== [http://www.ivmm.com/innoax/products/innopod.htm InnoAX's] InnoPod ===
:This is a iPod mini clone, that supports MP3, WMA, WAV and Ogg Vorbis. It supports recording from line-in and mic, has a 4 GB harddrive and USB2.0.

=== [http://www.iomega.com/ Iomega's] ScreenPlay Pro ===
:Iomega is finally also jumping on the bandwaggon and offers external HDDs with multimedia-playback. The larger version ScreenPlay Pro supports the usual audio and video codecs including Ogg Vorbis. It seems to be a repackaged Mvisto with HDD included [http://www.iomega-europe.com/eu/en/products/screenplay/screenplay_family_en.aspx ScreenPlay Pro].

=== [http://www.iriver.com/ iRiver's] iHP-1xx, H1xx, H2xx, H3xx, iGP-100 ===
:iRiver has also a number of harddisk based items that play back Ogg Vorbis. Older models like the iHP-100 and the iHP-115 come in 10 and 15 GB sizes and need a firmware update (see the [http://www.iriveramerica.com/support support downloads] for that). The iHP-120, a 20GB portable player, and the iHP-140, a 40GB version, support Vorbis playback out of the box. Read reviews here: [http://gear.ign.com/articles/435/435472p1.html IGN on iHP-100], [http://gear.ign.com/articles/457/457818p1.html IGN on iHP-120]. The iGP-100, a 1.5Gb portable player, supports Vorbis, according to the FAQ, though no firmware upgrade appears to be required. The new line of harddisk players H120, H140 come in 10 to 40 GB sizes. There is also a product line with USB host function and colour display that supports 32-500kbs: H320, H340]. The newer H10 player does not support Ogg Vorbis.
:Many iRiver devices can be loaded with the RockBox replacement firmware which plays Ogg Vorbis as well as adding FLAC playback.

=== [http://www.jnc-digital.com/Eng/ JNC's] SSF-M3, SSF-M5 ===
:The SSF-M3 comes with 20/40GB storage size, whereas the SSF-M5 has only 1.5 GB. Both support voice recording and FM radio. The SSF-M3 is more stylish and very slim and comes with a docking station.

=== [http://www.lge.com/ LG's] Mediagate ===
:This player is similar to the Modix or TViX. It is a portable USB HDD equipped with a 2,5" drive (size varies). It plays audio (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WMA), video (MPEG-1/-2, Xvid, DivX) and images (JPEG). It has composite, s-video and component video output and supports progressive scan, audio output is done through a coaxial and stereo plug. The device is bundled with a remote control.

=== [http://www.mobiblu.com/ mobiBLU] DHH-200 ===

=== Modix HD-3510 ===
:The HD-3510 is similar to the TViX, as it is sort of a portable multi-talent. It can store and playback audio, video and images, and can be used for other files as well. It can decode MPEG-1/-2/-4 including DivX/Xvid, AC3, DTS, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and JPEG. It uses USB2.0 for data input and has various ouput connectors: anlog stereo and 5.1 out, coaxial digital out, composite, s-video and component video out with progressive scan and HDTV upscaling. The HD-3510 is bundled with a carrying bag and a remote control, but without a 3,5" HDD.

=== [http://mpeye.net/ MPeye's] HT-100, HT-150 ===
:The HT-100 uses a 1,5 GB HDD, decodes MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and supports the usual features. The HT-150 seems to have the same features (maybe a mistake on the website).

=== [http://www.mpio.com/ mpio] HD300, HD200, One ===
:mpio HD300 is a harddisk player with 20GB and supports WAV/MP3/WMA/Ogg Vorbis. It has FM radio, an alarm clock and supports USB 2.0. The HD200 has 5GB storage capacity, a FM radio which can be recorded and supports the same formats as the HD300. Despite its name the One consist of three components: a player, a HDD and a CD-ROM drive, which can be combined with each other. It supports [[MP3]], [[WMA]], Ogg Vorbis, JPG, BMP and MPEG-4 movies. It has a 1" OLED display and will be available from 05/2005.

=== [http://www.imp3.net/read.php?textid=1529 Muzio's] JM-600 ===
:This player comes with either 2.2 or 4 GB harddrive and supports MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and ASF. It can record voice and has a FM receiver. What sets this player apart is the LCD — it can show BMPs, JPGs and text. The device can also act as a USB host to support digital cameras.

=== [http://www.macpower.com.tw/ Macpower] Mvisto MV-U2UGS ===
:The Mvisto is a portable hardware enclosure for 2,5" harddrives. It has video and audio outs and decodes MPEG1/2/Divx/Xvid/JPEG/MP3/WMA/AAC/Ogg Vorbis. It comes with a remote control.

=== [http://www.neurostechnology.com/ Neuros'] Neuros II ===
:This mobile player comes either with various harddrive sizes up to 80 GB or as 256 MB flash player. The new firmware to support Ogg Vorbis has been developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. The Neuros Synchronization Manager for Windows is available from the same link and now fully supports the addition of Vorbis files to the Neuros. *nix users can use Xiph.org's [http://www.xiph.org/positron/ Positron], Sean Starkey's Java [http://neurosdbm.sf.net/ Neuros Database Manipulator], or [http://www.sorune.com/ Sorune], all of which provide full Neuros database support and other features. Neuros II discontinued. Neuros III is planned but indefinite but they have a [http://open.neurosaudio.com/archives/Product%20Roadmap3-15-2005.htm roadmap].

=== [http://www.nextway.co.kr/ Nextway's] D Cube NHD-150D ===
:1.5 GB harddisk, USB 2.0, and can broadcast music through a FM transmitter.

=== [http://www.pontis.de/ Pontis'] MX2020 ===
:There is now a firmware update for the MX2020 that adds Ogg Vorbis support, which is a portable player for movies, music and photos.

=== [http://www.modix-hd.com/ Rapsody's] RSH-100 ===
:It is similar to the Modix HD-3510, but supports USB host functionality additionally. This web site is dead. The Savit Micro Rapsody RSH-100 can be seen on their site.

=== [http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/rioaudio/ Rio] [http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/item.asp?model=261 Karma] ===
:Harddisk of 20 GB. Uses Vorbis and FLAC. Uses USB 2.0 cable or docking station, which offers Ethernet and RCA line-out support. See [http://gear.ign.com/articles/458/458401p1.html ING review] or [http://www.riovolution.com Riovolution review] for more information. Note that firmware versions prior to 1.25 cause stability problems for some people, visit the [http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/support/rio/product.asp?prodID=113 support page] to get the newest version. The Karma was discontinued in March 2005, Rio (DNNA) effectively dissolved 27-July-2005 assets sold to [http://www.sigmatel.com/ SigmaTel].

=== Safa HMP-110R ===
:A portable player with 1.5GB memory, FM-receiver, recording function, upgradeable firmware, etc.

=== [http://www.samsung.com Samsung] YH-J70 ===
:A portable Multimedia Jukebox as seen on their [http://www.samsung.com/common/microsite/exhibition/cebit2005/base.asp?pcode=IT01 Cebit 2005 Microsite]. Comes with 20/30GB disk, colour display, video player and USB host function. Samsung's support for Ogg Vorbis is reported to be buggy. [http://www.samsunghq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=369] The Samsung YH925 is falsely advertised to support Ogg Vorbis. [http://www.paul.sladen.org/toys/samsung-yh-925/]

=== [http://www.sitecom.com/ Sitecom's] MP-330, MP-010 ===
:The MP-330 player uses a 4,4 GB harddrive, USB 2.0 and supports MP3, WMA and (Ogg Vorbis is claimed in the manual but it doesn't play ogg). The MP-010 is a portable media player. As such it supports music, movies and pictures. This includes MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1/-2/-4. It has a capacity of 40GB, comes with a remote control and has various ports for the TV.

=== [http://www.teac.de/ TEAC] MP-1000, MP-2000 ===
:TEAC MP-1000 is an ultra-compact harddrive player with 1.5GB capacity and only 70g mass. The follow-up model MP-2000 has 5 GB storage and supports the same formats (MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis).

=== [http://www.trekstor.de/ TrekStor's] iBeat 500, iBeat 300, vibez ===
:The iBeat 500 is a portable harddisk player with 20 GB of storage. It supports MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis and uses USB 2.0 to connect to PCs. It has a FM radio and an in-built mic. It seems to be available only in Germany (looks like a rebadged Xclef HD-800). The iBeat 300 uses a 1,5 GB HDD and has a color display. The vibez is available in 8GB, 12GB and 15GB versions. All can play MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and FLAC files.

=== [http://www.unibrain.com/iZak Unibrain's] iZak ===
:This is a portable USB hard disk with 40/80/100 GB of storage. It plays a wide range of video formats, including dixv/xvid/bvix/dvd iso. A good review can be found [http://www.mpeg-playcenter.com/modules/Reviews/reviews/Review_iZak.pdf here].
:The most current firmware release supports Ogg Vorbis playback.

=== [http://www.agci.co.uk/customer/categories/audio/mp3players Vusys] i-DJ 370 and i-DJ 670 ===
:4GB and 20GB harddrive players listed as playing OGG on the site. 370 weighs 150g and plays for 10 hours, 670 weighs 165g and plays for 12 hours.

=== [http://www.xclef.com/ Xclef's] HD-800, HD-500 ===
:This is a harddisk player with 20/40/60 GB storage size, and can decode MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis and WAV. It has a FM radio and a mic for recording voice. Though not mentioned on the web site, the HD-500 does decode Ogg Vorbis. — Site is dead, and as of 2007.05.23 no results come up in Google Product Search.

== CD/DVD Audio Players ==

=== [http://www.ifreemax.com/ Freemax's] FW-960 ===
:This CD-R portable supports Ogg Vorbis playback out of the box. It has 48 hours of WMA playback if an external battery pack (2 AA batteries) is used. The FreeMax FW-960 is also known as the mpman MP-CD550.

=== [http://www.exonion.com/ Havin's] (link dead) Exonion HVC-400E, [http://www.princeton.co.jp/ Princeton's] Pocket Beat airCD ===
:The Havin HVC-400E, also known as the Princeton airCD is probably on sale in Japan since late November, 2003.

=== [http://www.iriver.com iRiver] iMP-250, iMP-350, iMP-400, iMP-550, iMP-700(T) ===
:Ogg Vorbis is supported only through latest beta firmwares, still some bitrate restriction which may vary depending on the model (min=96kbps, max=160kbps). The iMP-550 supports maximum bitrate up to 256kps (still 96kbps as minimum). Also note the latest iMP-450 does not support OGG for the moment, a future upgrade may correct this... The iMP-700T with firmware 1.40 supports bitrates between 96 and 210 kbps, and .ogg files are generally not as loud as .mp3 files.

=== [http://www.roadstar.com/ Roadstar] PCD-5960WOMPT ===

=== [http://www.samsungusa.com/ Samsung's] MCD-CM600 ===
:The MCD-CM600 is now available in Korea. It is a CD portable that can play Vorbis, MP3, and WMA.

== Mobile Phones ==

=== [http://www.openmoko.com/ Openmoko] ===
:Openmoko produces phones with hardware and software as open as possible. They run GNU/Linux and software players such as mplayer and ogg123 can be used for vorbis playback. Because it runs GPL'ed software, ogg theora is also supported (but needs to be encoded with low frame rate as described at [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Video_Player Openmoko wiki]).

=== [http://www.samsung.com Samsung] introduced phones on the 2006 3GSM that play .ogg files: SGH-i320 and [http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/02/13/samsung-shows-off-sph-s4300-musicphone/ SPH-S4300] ===
:Also, Samsung i900 Omnia is known to play Vorbis, in Windows Media Player only. [http://es.samsungmobile.com/mobile/Samsungi200/spec Samsung SGH-i200], also plays Vorbis.

=== SymbianOS based mobile phones from '''Nokia''', '''Sony Ericsson''', '''Siemens''', '''Motorola''', '''Samsung''' etc.===
:Plays Vorbis files with the third-party, open source [http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/ Symbian OggPlay Software]. For supported mobile phones please visit the project website. The software works very well — even the still-in-development version which is strongly recommended. There is also a [http://developer.symbian.com/main/documentation/example_app_code/cpp/ogg_vorbis.jsp plugin] to Symbian itself. See also [[VorbisSoftwarePlayers#Symbian]].

=== iPhone ===
:Third-party efforts are porting the [http://coreplayer.com/content/view/28/69/ CorePlayer] and the [http://www.zodttd.com/ VLC player]

=== [http://www.google-phone.com/android-sdk-update-intros-app-animation-ogg-support-gui-tweaks-15289.php Google Android] ===
:Supports Vorbis out-of-the-box according to [http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm30234.pdf T-Mobile G1 User Guide] (Page 105), which is a [http://www.livecrunch.com/2008/08/27/htc-dream-g1-specs-and-review/ HTC Dream].

===Windows Mobile based phones===
:see [[VorbisSoftwarePlayers#PocketPC]]

== Automobiles ==

See [[StaticPlayers]] page.

== Others ==

=== [http://www.ipodlinux.org/ iPodLinux] ===
:You can install special Linux distribution on almost all of Apple iPods. In combination with Podzilla jukebox software it plays OGG (and many more audio file formats).

=== PDAs / Cell Phones / Game Consoles ===
:Other devices that run software to play Ogg Vorbis can be used as portable players as well. Please go to [[VorbisSoftwarePlayers]] page for more information.

=== [http://www.rockbox.org/ Rockbox] alternative firmware for iPods and other DAPs ===
:The Rockbox project works hard to provide an alternative firmware for some portable players. Rockbox has a rich feature set that is hard to find elsewhere, including gapless playback, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and even [http://www.musepack.net/ Musepack] support. Currently many models by [http://www.iriver.com/ iRiver], [http://www.archos.com/ Archos], [http://www.apple.com/de/ipod/ Ipod], Cowon(iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5 and M5l), SanDisk(Sansa c200, e200 and e200R series) and Toshiba(Gigabeat X and F series) are supported.

====[http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayer Rockbox Player] - Free/Open hardware audio player (DAP) and recorder====
:There is ongoing efforts to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player (DAP) and recorder, for use with RockBox firmware. Developer interested in participating are encouraged to visit the [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayer project page].

=== NAViBLUE NBC3500 GPS Navigation Device ===
:According to [http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3123083&CatId=2374]

=== TomTom Navigation software (mentioned on e.g. [http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/tomtom-navigator-pda-5.php]) and hardware systems ===
[http://astore.amazon.com/bissellstore-20/detail/B000NO5PZI Bissell Momentum Cyclonic Upright Vacuum]
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Summer of Code 2007

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ProLan:

Please see [[Summer of Code]] for the current project ideas page.

== Ideas ==

This is our ideas page for [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google Summer of Code] projects with [http://xiph.org Xiph.org] and [http://annodex.net/ Annodex]. The two projects are participating jointly this year under Xiph's name.

We need a primary and backup mentor volunteer for any project that is to become an official proposal, but submit something and we'll see who we can round up. :)

note: Google Summer of Code 2007, mentoring organizations to apply between March 5 and March 12, students March 14 - March 26

'''Students''' please use the template at [[Summer of Code Applications]] when applying for a GSoC position.

'''Mentors''' for details of our mentor application and plan, please see [[Summer of Code 2007]].

Students should also check out projects related to the [http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=SoC Elphel Open Source cameras].

=== Optimize Theora encoding/decoding speed, SSE/SSE2 ===
Work on MMX, SSE/SSE2 implementations of the crucial encoding and
decoding elements in [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora/ libtheora] and/or [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-exp theora-exp].
This could include porting the vp3 mmx and altivec code to the libtheora decoder, and writing sse improvements on the
mmx work that has already been done. The results must still build cleanly on other archs and do
run-time capability detection.

''Mentor: Ralph Giles, Timothy Terriberry, backup: Jan Gerber, Mike Smith''

=== Encode support in theora-exp ===
Implement a rate-distortion optimized encoding mode for [http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-exp/ theora-exp],
including R-D optimzed mode decision and quantization (e.g., constant
lambda). Then, use the above routines to implement a medium-latency ABR
encoding mode (e.g., varying lambda), with a default target buffer size
of approximately 2 seconds.

''Mentor: Timothy "Derf" Terriberry, backup: Mike Smith, Ralph Giles''

=== Development assistant for the "Ghost" audio codec ===
Designing a cutting edge perceptual codec is a very daunting task. Xiph
is in the research stage on a new low-latency, general purpose audio codec,
code-named "Ghost". This is basically a "code assistant" position, where you
will be asked to implement, test, and give feedback on ideas from Christopher
Montgomery, designer of the Ogg Vorbis format. Be prepared to learn a lot about
audio coding, or apply what you already know. While there's less "ownership"
potential in this project proposal, it will be a great opportunity to learn
about compression algorithm design, practice your programming chops, and learn
to work in team.

''Mentor: Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, backup: Jean-Marc Valin''

=== OggMNG implementation ===
Implement the OggMNG decode support in [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dev/ gstreamer] and/or [http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ illi's dshow filters].
Implement encoding support in based on [http://www.advogato.org/person/company/diary.html?start=18 byzanz] or [http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul Istanbul]. Bonus points for
overlay support. Details on the OggMNG specifications [http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggMNG here]

''Mentors: Mike Smith, Ralph Giles''

=== Theora reference encoder quality optimization ===
The [http://theora.org/download.html libtheora] encoder could make more use of some features present in the spec
but not currently implemented in the encoder. This is a little open ended, but
suggestions are: quant matrix tuning, per-block qi choice, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 chroma
support.

''Mentor: Ralph Giles, backup: Timothy Terriberry''

=== Subtitle Definition ===
There has been a long-standing need for the introduction of subtitles into Ogg. Several means have been suggested and various implementations exist. However, there has been no standard way that is supported by Xiph at this stage.

The [http://annodex.net/TR/draft-pfeiffer-cmml-03.html CMML] format with its time-aligned means of interleaving text into Ogg bitstreams is a platform on which we would very much like to define a standard means of including subtitles.

In this project, a standard means of interleaving subtitles (as found on DVDs or in srt files) into Ogg will be defined using CMML.

The project requires to make changes to the CMML definition and extend it in several ways. CMML needs to have a valid XML schema or DTD definition associated with it, so that standard XML tools will parse it. The associated documentation should then be updated and software written to put e.g. a srt file into CMML inside Ogg. If there is enough time, it would also be good to implement support for this format in a media player such as vlc or mplayer or xine.

''Mentor: Silvia Pfeiffer, backup: Conrad Parker''

=== Theora support in ekiga ===
Implement support for Theora as a video codec in the [http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ ekiga] chat application.
Overlaps with [http://live.gnome.org/SummerOfCode2006/Ideas GNOME].

''Mentor: Ralph Giles''

=== MXF support in gstreamer ===
Implement an [http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000013.shtml MXF] mux/demux for [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dev/ gstreamer], with mappings for [http://xiph.org/vorbis/ Vorbis] and [http://xiph.org/theora Theora].

''Mentors: Christian Schaller, Mike Smith''

=== Cascading Style Sheet support for CMML in GStreamer ===

Implement support for [http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Cascading Style Sheets] to add styling and positioning hints to
[http://annodex.net/TR/draft-pfeiffer-cmml-03.html CMML] text overlays on [http://xiph.org/theora Theora] video. Doing so allows for advanced titling features visually similar to TV-style news headlines, sports scores, and scrolling text. The advantage over conventional "burnt-in" titling is that the stylesheet-driven approach is machine-readable, allowing indexing for search and improved accessibility.

The project involves:
# YUV compositing support in the [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/0.10.1/gst-plugins-base-plugins/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-textoverlay.html textoverlay] plugin in [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dev/ gstreamer] in order to complete the low-level support for color and font attributes. Textoverlay already includes partial support for [http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/pango/PangoMarkupFormat.html pango text], but lacks the necessary colorspace conversions. This portion of the project necessarily involves C programming.
# Implementation of a test application to playback video marked up with CSS titling hints. It is recommended that this portion of the project be implemented in a higher-level language for which GStreamer support and CSS parsing libraries exist, such as Python, Ruby or Haskell.

Further work could include support for style sheets in liboggplay / Firefox, or direct support for style sheet retrieval and rendering in GStreamer (via the [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-good-plugins/html/gst-plugins-good-plugins-cmmldec.html cmmldec] plugin and/or a new style-sheet-aware textoverlay plugin).

''Mentor: Conrad Parker, backup: Mike Smith, Silvia Pfeiffer''

=== Hardware implementation of Theora decoding ===
Working on a hardware theora decoder, that can be used in embedded
devices, dvd players and video pods. Presumedly GPL verilog source
to run on an FPGA. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/elphel/ for a rough encoder implementation and http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora-fpga/ for the decoder implementation. This was a successful project in 2006.

=== Intel to AT&T x86 assembly translation ===
There is a general need for cross platform projects to be able to compile the same asm accelleration code on both GCC and MSVC. Unfortunately, at least of x86, they have incompatible assembly formats. Currently people either convert one to the other by hand (a maintenance nightmare) or require an external compile/assemble step on one or the other platform.

Start with the (unmaintained?) [http://www.niksula.hut.fi/~mtiihone/intel2gas/ intel2gas] script. Spruce it up to support all of recent MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 instructions. Then implement the reverse translation. Once both are working, write some glue code so it can be easily used as part of a GNU autotools build to derive one set of source from the other at build or package time.

=== Speex and FLAC encoders in Xiph QuickTime Components ===
Implement Speex and FLAC [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MusicAudio/Reference/CoreAudio/index.html Core Audio] encoders.

[http://xiph.org/quicktime/ XiphQT] has a Vorbis encoder component that could be used as a reference and starting point.

''Mentor: Arek Korbik''

=== New vocoder for Speex ===
This is a real speech coding project! Speex currently has a very low bit-rate (2.15 kbps) mode that is implemented as a trivial vocoder. This mode has four "reserved" bits per frame, which means it would be possible to transmit more information. The idea of this project would be to make use of these bits to improve the quality of the 2.15 kbps mode. Changes to both the encoder and the decoder are allowed, provided that they are compatible with older version. This means that the new bit-stream should be decodable by the old decoder with only minor loss in quality. This still leaves plenty of room for improvement. Upon successful completion, there will be a new vocoder that can be merged into the main Speex tree with improved quality and (non-exact) backward compatibility with the previous vocoder. The project requires some signal processing knowledge.

''Mentor: Jean-Marc Valin''

=== New Speex VAD/VBR code ===
The current Speex VAD/VBR code is a quick hack, put together a long time ago. This project consists of rewriting it to perform much better under all kinds of conditions. Performance criteria are: classification accuracy, quality in VAD/DTX mode, simplicity, and of course speed. This project involves pattern classification and speech processing, so it requires at least some knowledge in these fields (or at least one of them).

''Mentor: Jean-Marc Valin''

=== rehuff: a tool to losslessly compress Vorbis files ===
Would be nice to have an updated version of "rehuff", a tool to losslessly compress Vorbis files. There were an experimental version of it (see [http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis-dev/2006-August/018522.html rehuff status]), but had some limits:
* it's not free software;
* it has a bug causing the rehuffed file can't correctly seek;
* it works only with stereo files.

For more information, see also [[Rehuff]].

Would be nice to have an updated rehuff, without the previous limits, and with a library part that will be included in libvorbisenc, so all encoders could use it (rehuff binary, oggenc, ...).

''Not an official Xiph.org project, only a user proposed idea.''

=== Ogg and Annodex integration into open source web Content Management Systems ===
The goal of this project is to make the use of ogg theora video in existing CMSs as easy as possible.
The project would consist of integrating in browser playback and structured cmml metadata into existing CMSs like mediaWiki, drupal or wordpress.

In browser playback support will be handled by vlc or java cortado plugin and then liboggplay & native browser decoding as that project matures. [http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_embed mv_embed] may be a starting point for client plugin detection.
The extension package should also handle thumbnail generation via mplayer or ffmpeg, and ideally support transcodeing via shell calls to ffmpeg2theora. Meta data attributes for the video in the CMS could be exportable as CMML. (a standardized xml format for tagging continues video)

''Mentor: Michael Dale'', ''backup: Silvia Pfeiffer''

=== OggPlay: Time Offset Acceleration ===

OggPlay is a new library that enables developers to drop ogg media support into applications. OggPlay will be used to implement native Ogg/Annodex support in Firefox, and supports a range of features including playing Oggs provided in TCP streams.

This project involves adding time offset optimisation support to OggPlay in TCP mode. Upon successful completion, applications will be able to notify the library of "interesting" time regions of the file, either at the current time point or in the past or future. The library in turn will ensure that these regions are pinned in local memory or on disk using a combination of compressed stream and uncompressed frames. If the application later attempts to seek to a pinned time region, then access to the stream at that point will be much faster than other regions.

Time offset acceleration will be useful to projects such as Annodex, which allows annotation of time regions ('clips') in Ogg, as well as direct access to individual clips over the WWW, URL-based naming of clips, and linking between clips.

''Mentor: Shane Stephens'', ''backups: Marcin Lubonski, Michael Martin''

== Guidelines for Applying ==

Remember that many people will apply to work on the Summer of Code.

Keep in mind that those of us evaluating your application do not know you, we do not know what kind of
experience you have, we do not know what you have done in the past and we have to pick the best people
suited for a particular task.

Hence, it is very important that you tell us in your email why you should be considered to implement a
particular project. Please use the application template at [[Summer of Code Applications]] as a starting point.

== See Also ==
*[[CodingGuidelines]]
*[[MIT approach to design and implementation]]
*[[How to do a release]]

== Application ==

Google Summer of Code had a formal application process for mentoring applications. The window was March 5-12, 2007. This section was for development of our joint application with [http://annodex.net/ Annodex].

Here are the questions the [http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60303&topic=10727&ctx=sibling GSoC faq] said we must address:

==== Describe your organization ====

[http://xiph.org Xiph.org] is an open source project and non-profit corporation dedicated to providing open and free-to-implement multimedia technology as a foundation for an interoperable, level playing field on the internet and other digital distribution networks. Over the past 8 years we have hosted development for all the major patent-free audio and video codec development, including the Vorbis, Speex, FLAC and Theora, the Ogg streaming format, and the icecast streaming media server.

This year we are also coordinating projects for the [http://annodex.org Annodex association] under our umbrella. The [http://annodex.net/ Annodex project]
is developing a set of open specifications and open source software to allow the creation of hyperlinked Webs of audio and video integrated with the text-based view of the current Web. Toward this goal, Annodex has done a great deal of work developing tools, browswer plugins and convenience libraries to facilitate adoption of Xiph.org's lower-level technology. As such the two projects have largely aligned goals, but focus on different levels in the stack.

==== Why is your organization applying to participate in GSoC 2007? What do you hope to gain by participating? ====

We believe that Xiph.Org has a wide-ranging set of projects that are both challenging and educational for the students. Furthermore, they are important/useful goals for the wider technology and especially the open source community.

We believe that Xiph's mandate to develop multimedia standards and software is an important one, but we--of course--have limited resources. We hope that the results of GSoC will include the direct benefit of new software development, but also help grow the number of active participants in a long-term manner. Most of our core developers started as students, but just as many have moved on since their student days. Attracting and retaining students is essential to the health and sustainability of our project and is an important goal for all of us.

==== Did your organization participate in GSoC 2005 or 2006? If so, please summarize your involvement and the successes and failures of your student projects. ====

Xiph.org was invited to participate in GSoc 2006, and informally mentored annodex-related projects as well.

We were granted funding for 6 slots. One we weren't able to fill because our chosen students picked or were assigned to other projects.

'''Two were [http://code.google.com/soc/xiph/about.html successful]'''. One, a [http://code.google.com/soc/xiph/appinfo.html?csaid=5F9265EEC6FA0611 hardware implementation of a theora decoder]: this project produced HDL implementation of the major decoder components, to be used with a general purpose CPU, such as the open source LEON sparc implementation. Real time playback of SD content was demonstrated using these components in combination with the proprietary Nagios cpu design. Two, [http://code.google.com/soc/xiph/appinfo.html?csaid=213E2D30F095565D implentation of OggSkeleton support] in various tools. We have maintained contact with the two successful students since the program finished. One has continued to contribute code outside the GSoC term, continuing related work.

The remaining three were unsuccessful through lack of necessary skills, health complications, insufficient motivation, or some combination of all of these.

We enjoyed our participation last year. It energized our project and improved our connections to the rest of the open source community. We learned some lessons about mentoring and especially about applicant screening and would appreciate a chance to apply them in a second round.

==== If your organization has not previously participated in GSoC, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? ====

We did not apply outside of our invitation in 2006.

==== Who will your organization administrator be? Please include Google Account information. ====

Ralph Giles: google account giles@xiph.org

==== What license does your project use? ====

In general, we use a modified-BSD style license for our libraries, to enable the widest possible uses of our formats and reference implementations.

Our applications are generally GPL but LGPL or (GPL-compatible) modified BSD is also acceptable.

==== What is the URL for your ideas page? ====

This wiki page contains our current suggestions: (updates needed for 2007):

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code

==== What is the main development mailing list for your organization? ====

We don't have a single central mailing list for all of Xiph.Org. Instead, we have per-project mailing lists; of these the most active is vorbis-dev@xiph.org. A complete listing of our lists is available at:

http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/

The primary contact of the Annodex projects is [http://lists.annodex.net/ annodex-dev@lists.annodex.net]

==== What is the main IRC channel for your organization? ====

We use freenode (irc.freenode.net), with a number of channels. #xiph is the main organisation-wide one, but we also have project channels: #vorbis, #theora, #icecast and #annodex are the major ones.

==== Does your organization have an application template you would like to see students use? If so, please provide it now. ====

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Applications

==== Who will be your backup organization administrator? Please include Google Account information. ====

Michael Smith: google account mlrsmith@gmail.com

==== Who will your mentors be? Please include Google Account Information. ====

'''Mike Smith''': google account mlrsmith@gmail.com

Mike Smith has been involved with Xiph.Org and multimedia development since 2000 and remains one of our most involved core members. He helped write major portions of the vorbis-tools suite and the icecast streaming media server. He currently works as a developer at Fluendo.com on the GStreamer multimedia framework, flumotion (a streaming media server), and other multimedia software.

'''Ralph Giles''': google account giles@xiph.org

Ralph Giles has been involved with Xiph.org and multimedia development since 2000. He has contributed to tool development and the theora video codec. He handles much of the coordination and adminstrative work for Xiph.org. He mentored the successful "Hardware implementation of Theora decoding" project in GSoC 2006 and acted as an administrator.

'''Silvia Pfeiffer''': google account silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com

Silvia Pfeiffer is the founder of the Annodex project and president of the Annodex Association. She is the principle author of most of the annodex specifications, RFC 3533 and RFC 3534 describing the Ogg media format, and is heavily involved as an organizer in both the Xiph and Annodex projects.
Most recently she organized the [http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/ FOMS] developer summit and media recording for [http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ LCA 2007]. She helped mentor the successful "OggSkeleton support" project in GSoC 2006 and acted as an administrator during the application process.

'''Christopher Montgomery''': google account xiphmont@gmail.com

Christopher "Monty" Montgomery is the founder of Xiph.org, architect and lead developer of the Ogg Vorbis general purpose audio compression format. He has been doing open source development under the Xiph name since 1999. His current work focusses on development of a next-generation audio codec. He helped mentor a project related to this in GSoC 2006.

'''Timothy Terriberry''': google account tterribe@vt.edu

Timothy Terriberry is the author of the Theora video codec specification and the author of the theora-exp implementation. He has been an active contributor since 2003. He mentored a theora-related project in GSoC 2006.

'''Jan Gerber''': google account jan.gerber@gmail.com

Jan is the author of the very widely used [http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ ffmpeg2theora] transcoding tool, and maintainer of the [http://v2v.cc v2v.cc] syndication website. He has been a project contributor since 2002.

'''Conrad Parker''': google account conrad.parker@gmail.com

Conrad Parker is the author of the [http://www.annodex.net/software/liboggz/html/ liboggz] and [http://www.annodex.net/software/libfishsound/html/ libfishsound] convenience libraries and the [http://www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/ sweep] audio editor. He is heavily involved in the Annodex project and mentored the successful "OggSkeleton support" project in GSoC 2006.

'''Jean-Marc Valin''': google account jmvalin@gmail.com

Jean-Marc Valin is the architect and lead developer of the Speex voice codec. He has been involved in Xiph.Org since 2002. He mentored an audio codec research project in GSoC 2006.

'''Arek Korbik''': google account arkadini@gmail.com

Arek Korbik is the author of the [http://xiph.org/quicktime/ Xiph QuickTime Components]. He has been a project contributor since 2005.

==== What criteria did you use to select these individuals as mentors? Please be as specific as possible. ====

We selected our mentors from the 'core' developers and contributors within Xiph. Mentors were selected based on how well they know the code area they're volunteering to mentor, how long they've been part of Xiph, how well they interact with others (particularly in terms of building community around our projects).

The majority of the mentors we've selected are core developers on the various Xiph.Org sub-projects that they've volunteered to mentor for. They have been contributing to Xiph.Org for at least several years, and have shown a persistent interest both in the software we develop, and in helping to create a community around it. We have also made sure that each mentor has sufficient time available to adequately mentor their student(s).

==== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? ====

Though the details of dealing with students on a day-to-day basis will fall to the individual mentors, we will set some requirements for reporting progress. We expect mentors to be in contact with their students at least several times a week, and ideally daily (during the working week). Back-up mentors will also stay in contact.

We will require students to send a brief summary of their progress to the relevant sub-project mailing list once a week. This is not intended as an onerous requirement: just a sign that progress is being made. Should a student fail to do this, without having negotiated an exemption from their mentor beforehand, we'll send them a (polite) warning, and ask the mentor to take a closer look at what the student is getting done.

Should the student then continue to be absent, we'll be forced to take additional action - up to and including requesting that google withhold payment from them. We hope for none of this to be needed, but our experiences last year indicated that in at least some cases it may well be.

Xiph.Org also holds monthly IRC meetings where we try to get status updates on our various sub-projects, progress, etc. We'll ask that each student attend (unless their timezone makes this prohibitively difficult, in which case we'll ask them for a pre-prepared progress report to give at the meeting).

==== What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? ====

Our project-suggestions page has at least two mentors for every project. Should we decide to select a project not listed on that page, we would not do so without finding both a willing mentor and an available backup.

In most cases, the mentors are core developers who have been an active part of Xiph.Org for a number of years, so we think that disappearing mentors are relatively unlikely, but this provides the neccesary backup should a mentor be unable to continue for unforseen reasons.

==== What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? ====

Xiph.Org conducts much of its development discussion and community-building on our IRC channels. We'll ask that the students be present there while they're working, where adequate network access makes that possible. We hope to make them feel that they're an important part of our community; that their contributions are really making a difference towards the goals of Xiph.

We intend to be open to their contributions - whilst we're aware that initially their work may not be of a quality sufficient to go into our core codebase immediately, we'll give them write access to our repository to work on a branch. We'll ask them to be open in discussing and designing their contributions on irc and our mailing lists. Our application template welcomes them to come and ask us questions when they're trying to write up their application. We hope that some, or even all, of the students will continue to be part of the Xiph community after SoC concludes. For those students who have not previously contributed to open source software, we'll teach them about how important community building is for the ongoing health of such projects.

==== What will you do to ensure that your accepted students stick with the project after GSoC concludes? ====

We hope that the mentoring process and the experiences they have as part of GSoC will make the students interested in remaining part of Xiph, continuing development on the software they've been working on, and perhaps nurturing their patches towards inclusion in an actual release.

A very important part of GSoC is for us to make them active members of the community, in particular on the irc channels and the mailing lists. Past experience tells that once they have become part of that community, they will stick around for longer.

We will encourage them not to consider this just "a summer job", but as being part of a real community - and doing something that is both interesting, and useful to the wider world.
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PortablePlayers/SamsungYepp

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ProLan:

Samsung produce a range of players, many of which support Vorbis to a greater or lesser degree.

== YP-T6 ==
The YP-T6 is an incredibly small flash player with 128/256/512/1024 MB storage, has a mic and FM radio and and Vorbis. The YP-T6 has problems to play Vorbis files created with older encoder-versions.

== YP-T7 ==
The YP-T7 has either 512MB or 1GB capacity and supports the same audio formats, which also applies to the YP-F1. It can display JPEGs on its color display.

== YP-T9 ==
The YP-T9 supports Vorbis with firmware 1.50 and higher. The older firmware also supports MTP transfers only. Note that new firmware is available in two versions, MTP and UMS. Units purchased in US/Canada come with MTP firmware but can be reflashed with UMS firmware from Samsung's download site.

While the spec sheet for the YP-T9 lists Vorbis support, this is missing from the product package and from the user manual. Samsung tech support could not confirm that the player would play Vorbis files.

== YP-T10 ==
The YP-T10 is a 8GB flash player. The YP-T10 purchased outside of Korea does not support Ogg Vorbis. The YP-T10 available outside of Korea is a MTP device - the version sold inside Korea is a USB-mass-storage-device.

There are build in restrictions that you cannot flash a MTP-device to a UMS-device out-of-the-box. There are hacked firmware images avaiable - but of course, if you flash a hacked firmware you void the warranty of the device.

The 1.55 Korean firmware plays ogg files, but it does a poor job job sorting them (i.e. ignores the tracknumber-tag und uses the title as sort key).

Both firmware variants don't support FLAC files.

Warning: amazon.de advertises the YP-T10 as mass-storage-device which supports Ogg Vorbis and AAC out of the box. But this article description is wrong. The devices sold by amazon are MTP devices and they don't support Ogg Vorbis or AAC out-of-the-box. Even with a non-Korean-1.55 firmware they are still MTP devices and don't support Ogg Vorbis or AAC.

== YP-C1 ==
The YP-C1 has similar specs, including Vorbis support; at the time of writing, it seems to be readily available only in Korea and China.

== YP-53 ==
The YP-53, a small flash player with 128/256/512/1024 MB storage, mic, USB 2.0 and FM radio, supports Vorbis(-q >= 0) with Firmware 1.200.

== YP-U1 ==
The YP-U1 is a small (2,38 x 8,78 x 1,35 cm, ~32g) flash player with 128/256/512/1024/2048 MB storage. The player has a LCD b/w display and an integrated accumulator that is charged via USB. It supports USB2.0 and has an integrated USB-plug that can be flipped in and out, so no cable or adapter is needed. It supports directory structures.

==YP-U2 ==
The YP-U2 sold in the US (YP-U2J) does not support Vorbis playback at all, despite what the website claims. Flashing an international firmware for the YP-U2XB allows Vorbis playback on US models (it also turns the player into a USB drive, so that WM10 isn't required to transfer files over. Note that certain international firmwares may remove the FM radio feature or hang the YP-U2J. See the appropriate link below for info on getting a hold of the correct Vorbis-compatible firmware.

* YP-U2J, YP-U2JQB, YP-U2JQB/XAA: observed US/Canadian models. PlaysForSure, no Vorbis

* YP-U2X, YP-U2Z, YP-U2XW, YP-U2ZB, YP-U2ZW: models supported on Samsung Hong Kong website as of 2007 August 19. These support Vorbis, UMS. B and W seem to stand for Black and White.

==YP-U3 ==
The YP-U3 sold in the US (YP-U3J) supports Vorbis playback with firmware versions 1.08 and 1.10 - quality levels 3 and 6 have been confirmed to work. Multi-track playback is not gapless - there's a pause of a few tenths of a second when switching between tracks. The US version is an MTP device (rather than a USB Mass Storage drive) and requires WM10, or libusb support (e.g. in Amarok) to transfer files. Vorbis tags are extracted and displayed correctly during track playback. Proper artist/album/track indexing requires that the program downloading the tracks to the YP-U3 extract the tags and include the information in the MTP download operation - the YP-U3 will not do this automatically.

"International" versions of the YP-U3, running versions of the firmware ending in an odd digit, function as UMS drives rather than MTP media devices. It is possible to reflash US (MTP) models with the UMS firmware, following the steps [http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17656&page=4 here] and downloading the firmware and tools [ftp://celtic.no-ip.org/pub/Samsung_YP_U3 here].

== YP-Z5 ==
The YP-Z5 is a player with color screen, 1/2/4 GB flash memory, USB 2.0 and Vorbis support (firmware versions 1.06US, 2.28US), albeit not officially mentioned on the manufacturers website.

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