{"id":3375,"date":"2007-11-14T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/whoa-i-won-something\/"},"modified":"2007-11-18T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T19:22:39","slug":"whoa-i-won-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/whoa-i-won-something\/","title":{"rendered":"whoa, I won something!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My strategy of dropping off my business card at every trade show booth that promises quality swag paid off. I just received an MP3 player from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genivar.com\/\">Genivar<\/a> &#8211; thanks, folks!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weird little unit. Looks almost identical to a nano, but is your plain-vanilla USB mass storage device &#8211; something that Apple could learn from, but they&#8217;re in the business of selling players tied to iTunes. It also has a standard USB connector for days transfer and charging &#8211; Apple and iRiver please note.<\/p>\n<p>It seems it&#8217;s an S1 type player, so can play videos in its own weird format. It also has a voice recorder, which again records in its own special format (likely some hacked version of GSM).<\/p>\n<p>It will be fun playing with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Looks like it&#8217;s an <strike>ATJ-2135<\/strike> Actions Semiconductor player of some kind. It can record in ADPCM wav (which sox can convert), or its own weird ACT format (which can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joahua.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/30\/soundconvert-20\">converted using this Windows-only program<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My strategy of dropping off my business card at every trade show booth that promises quality swag paid off. I just received an MP3 player from Genivar &#8211; thanks, folks! It&#8217;s a weird little unit. Looks almost identical to a nano, but is your plain-vanilla USB mass storage device &#8211; something that Apple could learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[510,992,45,991],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-free","tag-genivar","tag-mp3","tag-s1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}