[nmglug] linux friendly player,

[jason]

yeah, I have been using it for over a year now. I will bring it to a 
meeting. I might miss this thursday meeting...

Jason



Andres Paglayan 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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