#300352 - 08/07/2007 13:43
Re: new Empeg?
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peter
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What are the current ppl that designed empeg using today ? Are they not building something more cool ?
Former Empeg employees are today spread across many different companies: some at Sigmatel, some at Numark, two at Roku, two at Apple, and so on. The most recently-released, and probably the final, product in direct descent from the Empeg is the Trekstor Vibez portable MP3 player: that was our H4, our swan-song, our this-is-what-you-could-have-won.
A Squeezebox, or maybe a Roku Soundbridge, is a better purchase now than a Rio Receiver, and the equal of the car-player Receiver Edition.
Several companies (though, sadly, not us) now produce devices which effectively supersede the Rio Central.
The Trekstor Vibez supersedes all the Rio hard-drive portables, and many companies including Apple and Creative have superseded the Rio flash-based portables.
But the car-player... aaah, the car-player. Seven years later there is still no other product in that form factor that can do what I do with mine: turn up to parties with 150+Gbytes of FLAC music in a small cloth bag, and demand only mains power and a line-input to access it all, with a remote-control and a remotely-readable display. As an actual car stereo, I don't even know now whether it has any equals, although for a while now it's at least had competitors -- it didn't even have those for some years. So while it would be nice to think some or all of the car-player team might one day "build something more cool" than the car-player, I wouldn't be surprised if none of us ever did.
Peter
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#300353 - 08/07/2007 15:57
Re: new Empeg?
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FireFox31
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Seven year old? Or nine year old? I thought the MK1 "worked on the first try" back in 1998?
- FireFox31 110gig MKIIa (30+80), Eutronix lights, 32 meg stacked RAM, Filener orange gel lens, Greenlights Lit Buttons green set
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#300354 - 08/07/2007 16:39
Re: new Empeg?
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peter
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Seven year old? Or nine year old? I thought the MK1 "worked on the first try" back in 1998?
Well, true. But I was thinking of the Mark 2, which mine is, and some of whose features -- Ethernet, particularly -- I can't do without.
Peter
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#300356 - 15/07/2007 12:39
Re: new Empeg?
[Re: haffi]
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brax
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I knew a little surfing would find an old link
SSI Neo 5100
Edited by brax (15/07/2007 12:40)
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#300358 - 13/08/2007 15:52
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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The most recently-released, and probably the final, product in direct descent from the Empeg is the Trekstor Vibez portable MP3 player: that was our H4, our swan-song, our this-is-what-you-could-have-won.
This just made me very very sad. 
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#300360 - 26/10/2007 18:45
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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The most recently-released, and probably the final, product in direct descent from the Empeg is the Trekstor Vibez portable MP3 player: that was our H4, our swan-song, our this-is-what-you-could-have-won.
This just made me very very sad.
Worse, I just had to go buy one
So, how are you liking it?
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#300362 - 07/11/2007 11:59
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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So, how are you liking it?
Wish I could tell you. Backordered at Amazon until later this month.
Uh oh. With Cornice out of business, I wonder where they're getting their 12 GB drives. If the answer is, nobody, you're 12 GB HDD vibez may turn into an 8 GB flash vibez.
^ This is pure conjecture, of course.
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#300365 - 15/11/2007 17:35
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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If they can improve the availability and also that of the accessories (specifically the remote and the pedestal/stereo connector) then it would be just perfect.
Shame there's no-one left to carry on the development
Isn't Peter still there? Or did he jump ship as well?
On the accessories, the in-line remote works very nicely. I also highly recommend the custom vibez case made by Noreve. A near perfect fit and offers excellent protection.
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#300368 - 18/11/2007 13:26
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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FYI, you may want to give the vibez faq over at Riovolution a read: http://www.riovolution.org/thread/523
Sadly, the vibez does not offer you a way to manage playlists independently of the Now Playing list (Menu -> Now Playing). The Now Playing list is just as powerful as the Karma's, and you can save that as a named playlist. But to edit a saved playlist, you need to load it as the Now Playling list, change what you want, then save it back.
Or, use your favorite .m3u playlist editor on your computer and copy it down.
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#300369 - 19/11/2007 04:33
Re: new Empeg?
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altman
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Shame there's no-one left to carry on the development
Oh but there is... Richard is now at Trekstor, and I have every reason to believe he's working on the empeg codebase still. For those who didn't know, Richard was the one behind the extras in the Carbon's "developers cut" 
Hugo
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#300371 - 19/11/2007 13:38
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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Shame there's no-one left to carry on the development
Oh but there is... Richard is now at Trekstor, and I have every reason to believe he's working on the empeg codebase still. For those who didn't know, Richard was the one behind the extras in the Carbon's "developers cut"
Hugo
Oh, please, please, please tell me this means a firmware update is coming! I really miss being able to edit saved playlists without interrupting what I'm listening to. (Plus the small handful of annoying bugs that need to be fixed.)
This sounds like very very good news.
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#300372 - 20/11/2007 12:52
Re: new Empeg?
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peter
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Isn't Peter still there? Or did he jump ship as well?
I jumped ship the other week. There's no-one left at Sigmatel now who was ever an employee of Empeg Limited; not even anyone who was in 2003's Chapter 11 photo. The final remaining person there ever to have worked on the car-player is Dave, who did a lot of work (including all the tuner stuff) for the skunkworks v3 alphas.
Peter
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#300373 - 20/11/2007 13:30
Re: new Empeg?
[Re: peter]
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rubennyc
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Isn't Peter still there? Or did he jump ship as well?
I jumped ship the other week. There's no-one left at Sigmatel now who was ever an employee of Empeg Limited; not even anyone who was in 2003's Chapter 11 photo. The final remaining person there ever to have worked on the car-player is Dave, who did a lot of work (including all the tuner stuff) for the skunkworks v3 alphas.
Peter
Hopefully on to greener pastures? Best of luck with the new job.
On a related note: Can you tell us if an updated vibez firmware actually was in the works or not? I don't trust anything the guys over in TrekStor's tech support group tell me.
Thx.
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#300374 - 21/11/2007 16:54
Re: new Empeg?
[Re: rubennyc]
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rubennyc
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Isn't Peter still there? Or did he jump ship as well?
I jumped ship the other week. There's no-one left at Sigmatel now who was ever an employee of Empeg Limited; not even anyone who was in 2003's Chapter 11 photo. The final remaining person there ever to have worked on the car-player is Dave, who did a lot of work (including all the tuner stuff) for the skunkworks v3 alphas.
Peter
Hopefully on to greener pastures? Best of luck with the new job.
On a related note: Can you tell us if an updated vibez firmware actually was in the works or not? I don't trust anything the guys over in TrekStor's tech support group tell me.
Thx.
Looks like my question has been answered on a certain other board. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
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#300375 - 21/11/2007 22:49
Re: new Empeg?
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altman
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Which other board, btw? I have to say I have no idea whether new firmware would appear for the Vibez or not, I was just saying that it's at least in the realms of possibility given who works there
Hugo
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#300377 - 22/11/2007 01:17
Re: new Empeg?
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rubennyc
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http://www.riovolution.org/thread/794
AgentM fell of the face of the Earth, but the Riovolution lives on.
BTW: Great work on v1.11 so far. My eternal gratitude to everyone involved. I got so spoiled by the Karma that no other portable on the market could make me as happy as this.
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#300379 - 23/11/2007 00:02
Re: The Trekstor Parrot
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rubennyc
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Well, after about 3 hours of use, it is making a repetitive hard drive clicking noise and won't allow me to load music. Then it disappears as a device.
I am getting the feeling that it is an ex-Vibez.
I may be American, but I actually got the Monty Python reference. 
That sucks, dude. Definitely RMA it. I've had mine since March with no such problems. Hell, a month ago, it took a double bounce from the top of a treadmill, onto the moving belt which then flung it 10 feet onto the gym floor; and it hasn't missed a beat.
Then, when you get the replacement, throw the v1.11 Beta on it asap.
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