substation wrote: > Personally i would stay away from Apple. Terrible format and you are > locked in to copyright formatting and iTunes; but if you do get one, > choose the ipod classic - best bang for buck. The best thing you can do > with an ipod is install linux on it - but why waste your money and > simply get a portable 2.5" hard drive that sits in your pocket and costs > half the price! > > Cowon and iubi, never heard of them [so can't help you there] > Archos, never owned one but i have heard some good things. > > I own several Creative Players [Zen Touch and Zen Vision 30/60GB] - they > have very nice screens and i have never had any problems with them > [using them every day with Winamp or WMP11 or some custom software i > built for myself] and they support all standard formats[freedom form > DRM], including Variable MP3 formats without costing you battery life. > Battery-wise they last many many many hours hours depending on how you > use it and they charge via the USB slot ... > > If i was buying one then i would buy creative. > Better still, why not just get a portable DVD player - big cost saving > and 16GB will not go far on video unless you like watching television > adverts. lol :-) > > > > > Ben Hayes wrote: >> Now that I have everyone's attention (from my previous emails - :) ), >> I have a dilemma. I'm undecided on which player to buy. My choices are: >> >> Cowon iAudio 7 (16GB version) >> Cowon D2 (8GB + 8GB SHD Card) >> Archos 605 160GB version >> Apple iTouch 16GB >> iubi Blue 60GB >> Archos AV 700 80GB >> >> The things that are important is to ensure that they are seen under >> Linux. To my knowledge that almost rules our the iubi Blue. I didn't >> search too long but I would like to have that one as it's fairly >> cheap. The iAudio players support more codecs than any other players >> out there but the Archos is considered the better player. While I >> like the Apple brand very much, I want to stay away from this as the >> other players on the market are more open (ogg, flac, ape, etc, etc) >> where as Apple cripple you to specific codecs (although it supports >> other formats but then you have to hack the player). >> >> The one thing that I will say is that I do use my player (iPod) to >> watch video. The iAudio 7 can play up to 60 hours of music off of one >> charge and about 18 hours of video (I think that's the stats for >> video). The D2 has about 18 hours of music and 10 hours of video >> (again, I think these are correct). I'm unsure about the Archos >> status. The idea of being Flash based is good but that comes at a cost. >> >> Any suggestions as to which would be considered the better player?? I >> am very undecided on this one. >>
substation: You missed the point of the e-mail - PMP that works seamlessly with Linux. Ben: I use either my N800 or PSP for my mobile media needs - 16GB and 8GB respectively. I know they're not exactly the same thing as what you are looking at, but in all honesty they wont be any more expensive than what you are looking at already. The advantage of going down this route is you get the media capabilities that you're after and a whole lot more (not necessarily more that you would use but it is there). Banshee recognises the PSP as a portable media device; the N800 is recognised as an external card which you can then drag and drop your files onto, and there are a wealth of pretty damn good media applications for it at zero cost. Regards, Andy -- Andrew Wafaa Tel: +44 (0)7974 074546 Blog: http://www.wafaa.eu -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by ESVA, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
