[nmglug] portable players (mp3, ogg and Gnu/Linux)

[Andres Paglayan]

if you froogle for: mp3 player ogg
you'll get many which are compatible with oggs, if you include linux in 
the search it might refine it.
my guess is if they support usb drives will work fine transfering files.

Valentin Guillen wrote:

> js at jasonschaefer.com wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any experience with portable mp3 and ogg players on 
>> GnuLinux? Not
>> many play ogg and I don't want to buy them all to find out if they 
>> work well on
>> Debian.
>>
>> Please help
>>
>> -Jason
>>  
>>
>
> Last Christmas I received a nice Emerson USBdrive/MP3/WMA player 
> device.  It has 128mb of memory, a voice recorder, FM radio, and of 
> course the media player.  Its a very small device with a USB connector 
> at one end.  I use it in conjunction with SuSE Linux 9.2  
> Unfortunately, it doesn't play Ogg. 
> It works fine with GNU/Linux.  I merely plug it into the computer's 
> USB port, and I can then move files onto/off the unit, as well as 
> delete.  The system treats the unit as a USB Hard Drive, but the 
> device manager sees it for what it is:  a generic Digital Audio 
> device, DA00001.  I almost always am in a KDE  GUI when I use it, and 
> almost always I usually cut and paste, or drag files onto it while in 
> Konqueror File Manager.  It is extremely straightforward, as it is 
> seen as merely another drive.
> If purchasing a unit, I would definitely go with a flash based device, 
> but one with 4~6 GB of storage.  On a philosophical or moral basis, I 
> would choose a unit which did Ogg, but I can live with a unit which 
> does MP3, or AAC.  I can always transcode material if necessary.  I 
> don't use the wma capabilities of the unit.  I use the device along 
> with a tiny FM radio transmitter, so that I can listen to my music in 
> my car.  I merely select an FM frequency NOT in use locally in 
> Albuquerque, and hear my music there, usually on 89.5 FM.  The unit 
> has a small, hard to read LCD readout of song info, player and batt 
> status, etc.   It is simply insufficient to hold more than a couple of 
> hours of music.  I have a couple of Flash Drives on which I also carry 
> music. They work the same way on the SuSE system.
> Flash based units will save on precious battery power, as opposed to 
> hard drive based units.  They will not be cheap, but a Digital Music 
> player is a luxury.  I've seen some very nice players lately on 
> websites, but willwait until they are more mainstream (read: cheaper).
>
> Here are a couple of captures of what the unit looks like while in SuSE:
>
> http://www.thuntek.net/~vguillen/art/da01.png
> http://www.thuntek.net/~vguillen/art/da02.png
> http://www.thuntek.net/~vguillen/art/da03.png
>
> I've also used the player *many* times while booted up into various 
> distros of Debian Live-CD versions, including Mepis Pro, Kanotix, 
> Linspire, Knoppix, etc.  No problem there.  Just be sure to get one 
> which has sufficient storage for several hours of jams.
>
> Good luck!
>
> vg
>
>
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