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Cowon Systems, Inc. is a South Korean electronics company established in 1995. The company's focus at that point in time was software. In 2000, Cowon expanded their business to the portable digital audio player market with the introduction of the CW100. more...

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Cowon Systems expanded to the American market in 2000 by founding the company jetAudio, Inc. The company name was later changed to Cowon America.

Software

jetAudio

jetAudio is one of the most notable pieces of software produced by Cowon America. jetAudio is a software multimedia player which offers features such as ripping CDs, re-encoding audio and video files, recording from external sources and burning capabilities (usual features of audio/video playback programs). The plus version of this software (which isn't shareware and has to be paid for) includes many sound extension packs and other codecs which can play back most media files present.

JetAudio 7 incorporates an album manager, bookmarking a current position in the song and a Repeat Playlist feature. It also has a balloon tooltip feature which supports an instant messenger-style display. It also includes support for many other file types such as 3G2, AAC, AC3, MKA, OFR, OFS, RMVB, SVD, TP, TRP, TS. jetAudio comes bundled with every mp3 player produced by Cowon.

Other programs

Other products include programs like jetCast (which is bundled with jetAudio), Jet toolbar and jetMailMonitor. All these programs are available for free to download from the company's website.

Hardware

The iAudio series

Cowon manufactures the iAudio series of digital audio players. See iAudio for more details.

Cowon A2

The Cowon A2 was introduced in August 2005. It is Cowon's first portable media player, featuring a 4-inch widescreen display and many relatively advanced features such as TV-out functionality, TV recording, FM radio, FM radio recording, voice recording & line-in recording and contains a 30gb hardrive

After the firmware version 1.59, Cowon A2 supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) compression level 0 ~ 8 completely.

The A2 uses the Texas Instruments TMS320DM320 processor (ARM926 CPU + C5400 DSP) and the player's operating system is based on a heavily modified version of Linux. The Cowon A2 firmware source code can be found at .

The Cowon A2 is Cowon's first hardware product not to be marketed under the iAudio brand name.

As of Firmware Version 1.76 Beta the Cowon A2 can support CSD files that are created from a new application called mTrans 1.0 Beta that supports conversion from various formats including PDF, PPT, XLS, DOC, and others (corresponding applications for each filetype are required for conversion).

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