JetAudio is a company established in September 2000.

It is a software company, but it also sells hardware produced by its Korean mother company Cowon.

Software

The software arm produces products like the jetAudio, jetCast, Jet toolbar and jetMailMonitor. These programs, which are included with all iAudio MP3 products and available free to download at the above URLs, provide music repository and sorting, playback, and other miscellaneous functions. Jet Toolbar is a item of software for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system. ...

Hardware

jetAudio manufacturers the iAudio-series digital media players. They enjoy reasonable success in their home market of Korea, and other Asian countries, but are relatively unknown in the US market. The company is consistently praised for its solid and regular software updates, with its former flagship player, the hard-drive-based M3, receiving over 15 updates (including some that occurred after the M3's replacement as flagship DAP by the X5). As a general rule, jetAudio hardware is of high build quality. However, upon release of the M3 there was found to be a widespread remote "fading" issue, in which the text of the remote slowly disappeared. This issue was rectified by the rapid recall of all faulty remotes and free replacement. 4th Generation Grayscale Apple iPod Creative Zen Micro A digital audio player (DAP) is a device that stores, organizes and plays digital music files. ...

iAudio M3

Featuring

• 20 / 40 GB 1.8 inch hard disk
• Support for MP3, WMA, Ogg, ASF, WAV and FLAC files
• Hi-Speed USB interface
• Direct MP3 encoding over analog line-in
• Voice recording
• FM Radio
• Integrated li-ion battery with 14 / 35 hour playback time (35 Hour Battery Life only for the iAUDIO M3L 20 GB) (Replaceable with correct technical expertise)

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iAudio X5

The X5 uses much of the same hardware as the M3, and as such has much of the same features and capabilities. However, it includes a color screen on the unit, and has several new features: limited video playback (MPEG-4 at up to 15 frame/s only), picture viewing, integrated clock, and USB-OTG (basically lets the device to be used as a USB host, allowing it to directly access data from these supported USB devices). MPEG-4, introduced in late 1998, is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). ... Frame rate, or frame frequency, is the measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames. ...

As with the M3, "L" versions with chunkier, longer-life batteries at the cost of higher prices and increased bulk (the X5L are about 4mm thicker overall than the X5). Unlike the M3, the X5 comes in 20GB, 30GB and 60GB variants. It is likely that there will be no 60GB X5L, as the 60GB X5 itself is the thickness of the 20GB and 30GB X5Ls due to the larger hard drive. A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter), symbol mm is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...

iAudio M5

This is basically a variant of the X5 with a black and white screen instead. As of september 2005, it is only available in Korea. Korea (한국/韓國/Hanguk, used by South / 조선/朝鮮/Joseon, used by North) is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in northern East Asia, bordering on China to the northwest and Russia to the north. ...

iAudio U2

Featuring

• 256MB / 512MB / 1 GB / 2 GB Flash memory
• Support for MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG files
• Hi-Speed USB interface
• Direct MP3 encoding over analog line-in
• Voice recording
• FM Radio
• Integrated Lithium polymer cell with 20 hour playback time
• Integrated Clock (only supported with firmware version 1.10 or higher)

A USB Flash Memory Card Flash memory is a form of EEPROM that allows multiple memory locations to be erased or written in one programming operation. ... MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardised in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). ... Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. ... ASF can stand for: Advanced Streaming Format Apache Software Foundation alt. ... WAV (or WAVE), short for WAVE form audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... Ogg is a patent-free, fully open multimedia bitstream container format designed for efficient streaming and file compression (storage). ... Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ... MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format invented and standardised in 1991 by a team of engineers working in the framework of the ISO/IEC MPEG audio committee under the chairmanship of Professor Hans Musmann (University of Hannover - Germany). ... Lithium ion polymer batteries, or more commonly lithium polymer batteries (Abbreviated Li-Poly or LiPo) are rechargeable batteries which have technologically evolved from lithium ion batteries. ...

Other, outdated flash-based models

See also

• List of audio players
• Comparison of media players

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External links

• iAudio M3
• iAudio U2
• iAudio M3 on Linux Guide
• iAudio Fan Site