[nmglug] linux friendly player,

[Jeff Shippen]

I bought the iAudio X5L (30 gig, 30 hours battery) about a year ago, and it
is awesome! the only drawback for me is that it doesn't support aac files
(maybe the firmware has an update to add support?).  Other than that, yeah,
just plug and play.  Also, using the feature that was built for downloading
files from digital camera, if you happen across someone else that has an
iAudio, you can plug them into each other and copy/paste music (don't tell
anybody though) lol.  Well there is another drawback, 9,999 file limit... I
haven't reached that yet, but am in the middle of downsampling my oggs to
fit more :).  I've heard you can use http://www.rockbox.org/ firmware to
increase the file limit though....

On 10/15/07, Andres Paglayan <andres at paglayan.com> wrote:
>
> good choice,
> I didn't know about it,
> did you ordered it already? if so where from?
> THX
>
> On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:47 AM, jason wrote:
>
> > 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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> Andres Paglayan
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