On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 15:22 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm looking to buy a portable music player, but I'm not sure what to > get, so I'm polling for recommendations. > > Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the > device. > > I'd prefer to be able to simply mount it as a USB device, but as long as > I can add/remove/view the contents of the player from Linux it'll be > fine. A GPL/BSD firmware and/or Linux interface is a plus. > > I'm not set on hard drive or flash based so feel free to recommend on > either or both.
I had a Rio Karma for quite a while. This was a great little player. It played ogg files, and it came with a base with RCA outputs. The base could be located at your home stereo, with an ethernet connection to your linux box. There's a java-based "light" client for it that works under Linux and connects via USB or ethernet. Only problem I had was that I really had to baby the device or I'd crash the hard drive. I roasted 2 drives, then ebay'd the 2nd replacement unit so I could buy a flash player. I now use an Apple iPod mini (unfortunately no ogg support) with gtkpod. But it'd be worth checking out some of the other (flash-based) offerings from Rio to see if they support ogg and the java manager interface. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
