Tracy R Reed wrote: > I don't really care about the brand as long as it is small > (flash based), is USB mass storage, and costs less than $200. > Any suggestions?
Well, I did some more research by googling and came up with some good info so I went down to Best Buy to see what they had. I normally buy stuff like this off the net but since it seemed there there was a fairly high chance of having to return something I decided to buy locally. I ended up with a Samsung YP-U2J. It meets all of the qualifications. It's a bit small at 512M but it is physically small (size of a butane cigarette lighter or smaller) and only cost me $69. It also charges directly off of the USB port which is nice. My Zen Nomad had a separate charger cable with wall wart and a data cable. This thing has no cables to misplace except the headphones. Things to look for in a Linux compatible MP3 player would be a mention of "USB Mass Storage" on the feature list or as in the case of the YP-U2J it said "USB Drive & Music Player" on the box. That was a clue that it might "just work" and it does. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
