Hi Kerry, Thanks for the detailed information. I have seen some mp3 players that claim to play flac, so I think that this is not a problem any longer. My disk is formatted to FAT32 because in the past I tried to access it through some backwards Windows system and had to make sure it could be read by it. The only problem remains accessing the data through a USB connection, because the disk is obviously not a flash drive and most current players only know flash as a form of external storage.
It looks increasingly like an old laptop will have to do. Thanks, Avi On 8 July 2010 01:58, Kerry Hoath <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps you could get a Linksys NSLU2 off ebay and a USB soundcard and > compile up a flac binary or find a pre-packaged one. > > You'd need hard drive in other format than ntfs though as most players > don't read ntfs easily under Linux. > > NSLU2 is small, has ethernet and 2 USB ports one for hard drive and one for > soundcard. You can control mpd with web client or phone or other things. > Might need to overclock NSLU2 to get replaygain to work in mpd without > running out of cpu. > > Personally Irun mpd on a 1st generation fit-pc and play flacks off that. 5 > Watts, integrated soundcard but $200 or so to set up. > Probably looking at at least $100 for a device that can play flac, cheap > mp3 players don't have the cpu grunt or codecs to do it unless they can run > Rockbox Linux or some other flac implementation. > > Regards, Kerry. > > > On 8/07/2010 4:00 AM, ABRAHAM NAIM wrote: > > Hi, > > Many thanks for this! I was looking for an inexpensive solution, and a > Nokia tablet is too expensive for me. I was hoping for a cheap mp3 player > with a USB connection, but thanks for the advice anyway. > > Abe > > > On 7 July 2010 19:30, Ognjen Bezanov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My nokia n810 does this. I have in fact done what you want and played >> FLAC files off my external 120GB drive using the "Canola" media player. >> You need an external source to power the disk though, because the n810 >> doesn't provide enough power to run a hard disk. >> >> >> >> On 07/07/10 16:47, ABRAHAM NAIM wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I have a 500GB external hard drive with a lot of music in flac format. I >> > would like to find a way to play music directly from the drive through a >> > portable player. I do not own a portable player at the moment and intend >> > to buy one that can support the above requirement. >> > >> > What I don't want to do is copy files across and remove them every time >> > I want to listen to music. >> > Is there a way to play music directly from the external drive, using a >> > USB connection, on any portable player? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Abe >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Flac mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing [email protected]http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > >
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