On October 12, 2007 11:11:41 Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > Hi all, > > I know it's off-topic, and will stop asking if I'm not > allowed. > > I have a question: I have a 30 GB iPod running > Rockbox. The problem is: it's full and I want a larger > capacity player (my wife tells me to be more > 'selective' but the point of such a player is that I > don't have to be selective :-)) ). I have Linux PCs > only and I *refuse* to use anything labeled > 'Microsoft'. Thus, players that transfer files via > proprietary (Windows-based) software are out of the > question. Thus, a file-system based player is > preferable. > > The newest Apple players cannot be converted to > Rockbox (yet). The players that are 'Rockbox-able' are > all somewhat older models. I would welcome tips and > advice on file-system based players, all shapes and > sizes (Zune is out of the question of course - Toshiba > players are on the edge because they use Windows). > > See you, > Wilfred > > >
Hello Wilfred, I have two players that I use on a daily basis that work as filesystem based players. The first is my 5.5G, 80GB iPod running rockbox and the second is my archos 604wifi which actually runs linux, sadly you can't modify it because of a tivo-like lock on the firmware :( In my experience players that use an mtp interface are also relatively well supported(1) under linux and you can use them as a filesystem based player using mtpfs(2) (a fuse filesystem that uses libmtp). I've also heard that players made by Cowon are also good. Infact they actually say that their devices are supported under linux on their website. Happy shopping, nick (1) http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=compatibility (2) http://www.adebenham.com/mtpfs/ _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
