[nmglug] linux friendly player,

[jason]

Wow Brian, great advice!

So I have been gone for awhile and just now getting to the list. I had 
very similar criteria as Andres and decided on the Cowan iAudio X5 60GB. 
~$250
http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/info_features.html#specifications

What I like the most is the fact that NO drivers are required. It can 
plugin to Windows, Gnu/Linux and Mac and show up as external storage 
device. You can copy files seamlessly and organize all your files 
directly on the device. Of course you can also store any other type of 
file as well. The only drawback is it requires a little adapter that 
plugs into the bottom to plugin to usb. Another great feature is the 
recording, you have a choice of using the built in mic or line-in from 
the above mentioned adapter. And, in closing, rockbox has made a release 
for the X5. It greatly enhances the features. The ability to change the 
theme is very nice, since people have varying aesthetics and needs when 
it come to display. Its very easy to install and you can also revert 
back to the original firmware.

Jason


BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Runs windoze!
>
> Sam Noble wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:15 -0600, Mark Galassi wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> My son uses a Creative Zen V, 4gig of flash, which is a very nice
>>> unit.  It works with various GNU/Linux nomad programs (including
>>> gnomad, a full GUI just for these gadgets), and various plugins for
>>> amarok and others.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Yeah my wife and a coworker each have zen V's it's about the same size
>> as my Cowon D2, it has a much smaller non-touch screen, which makes the
>> menus a bit less fiddly but also makes video seem pretty silly due to 
>> the super small size.
>> Also no ogg/flac support and of course no expandable memory (anybody
>> notice I'm pretty big on that one?) And I personally wasn't able to come
>> up with ffmpeg options that would create video it would play.
>> Plus while it does work with gnomad, (though I had to build from source
>> against marillat-ish libraries that I would not have otherwise had
>> installed.) it is not mountable as removable storage so your limited to
>> the (pretty good) gnomad (or amarok and probably newer-than-mine
>> versions of rhythmbox, xmms etc.) interface. Which I find quite a bit
>> more painful than just having udev auto pmount the thing, so that I can
>> use nautilus or bash (hurray for rsync!) to manage it.
>>
>> Has anyone tried the iriver clix(2)?
>>
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