This is by far the best news this year for true music fanatics. The amazing COWON S9, which was our PMP of the year last year, just got significantly better with firmware update 2.31b. Additionally, there’s now support for M3U playlists. Wow. The new firmware also provides playback support for damaged AVI videos. Got a lot of that in my computer.
Features of 2.31b (international version) firmware for the Cowon S9
- Gapless playback for FLAC, APE and Lossless WMA, as well as Ogg Vorbis and WAV
- M3U support
- plays damaged AVI
- support for AVI containers
- typist feature: notepad with keyboard
[read more at dapreview]
July 1st, 2009 at 5:52 am
“Additionally, there’s no support for M3U playlists.”
Ah, I think you’re missing a ‘w’ there.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Actually, no. They say it’s supported but it doesn’t seem to work.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:15 am
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