TrekStor Vibez

The TrekStor Vibez is a microdrive digital audio player released on November 15, 2006. It is currently available in 8 GB and 12 GB capacities.

Flash versions of the Vibez player with 4 and 8 GB capacity were announced in 2007, but did not materialize for a while. A 16 GByte Vibez with flash memory was reviewed by German computer magazine c't in early July, 2008 ( [http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml c't 16/2008] , p.136). The imminent release of the flash players has been confirmed by Trekstor in e-mail messages to customers. [ [http://www.riovolution.org/post/13795 Riovolution forum post] quoting an e-mail from Trektstor support]

The Vibez' chipset, the SigmaTel 3600 SoC, natively supports almost all features originally included in the Rio Karma (with the exception of the Karma's networking features), as well as some new and/or improved features, including:

* Gapless playback for all supported codecs, including WMA DRM.
* Custom 5-band parametric equalizer.
* True on-the-fly playlisting.
* DJ mode (formerly known as "Rio DJ")
* Line-in recording (.WAV format)
* Voice recording (.WAV format)
* MSC/MTP modes (no software dependency)
* ID3 tag and file tree browsing
* Pitchbend
* Codecs supported: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, WMA-DRM9, WMA-DRM10 (Janus)
* Album art (embedded supported in MP3 and WMA only)

Unofficial beta firmware containing additional features is available from Riovolution.org. Most features are available in English only and include:

* Ability to rate song on the device, play by rating and song rating extraction (MP3 and WMA)
* Extra visuals
* Text file viewer
* Sudoku game
* Picture Jumble game
* Spoken word filter
* User background picture cycling
* Accidental power on protection
* Startup volume limiter
* last.fm playback logging
* Advanced configuration menu
* Ability to update playlists
* Playlist creation/editing independent to currently playing music (a.k.a. "Karma Playlists")
* Ability to seek to an exact timecode
* Ability to playback a random album/artist/etc
* Embedded album art for FLAC
* Playback history
* Cue file support (embedded cue information supported for WMA and FLAC)

External links

* [http://trekstor-fileserver.de/www/en/products/detail_mp3.php?pid=66 TrekStor Vibez product page] .
* [http://trekstor-fileserver.de/www/downloads/produkte/vibez/manual_vibez_v1-10_de-en.pdf TrekStor Vibez user manual] .
* [http://www.riovolution.org/ Riovolution.org] a forum for owners and fans of Rio products and the TrekStor vibez.
* [http://www.riovolution.org/thread/523 TrekStor vibez FAQ] at Riovolution.org

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