Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I should clarify what I mean by cheap: less than $20 or $30 is my goal. So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. Geeks.com have some cheapie players, here's one for $26 which says it works with linux:

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/07 01:43, Dave Thayer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I should clarify what I mean by cheap: less than $20 or $30 is my goal. So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. Geeks.com have some cheapie

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Mike Polyakov
On 04/19/07 01:43, Dave Thayer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I should clarify what I mean by cheap: less than $20 or $30 is my goal. So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. I owe Sandisk Sansa player and it works magnificently with linux kernel 2.6.

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:15:05AM -0500, Rob Wright wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm pretty happy with my Samsung YP-T7, which I got from overstock.com a while back. It has a voice recorder and an FM radio, both of which I use regularly, along with 512MB RAM which is plenty for my casual music use. The interface is OK, a little clunky but I can get used to it (and have).

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:40:17PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: Does anyone know of any good, inexpensive players with support for the ogg audio format? I've burned all of my music to .ogg format and I'd like to find a good music player that ISN'T Cowon America (Their customer support is

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dave Thayer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:00:32PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I should clarify what I mean by cheap: less than $20 or $30 is my goal. So, I'll do some trolling around eBay. Geeks.com have some cheapie players, here's one for $26 which says it works with linux:

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-18 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 4/16/07, Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. On 4/17/07, Dusty Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Lale
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: I ended up with an Iriver T30. It's like 59.95 at Sears on a 50% off (I think the retail was about

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Marty
Russell L. Harris wrote: Beware: Some of the larger Creative players require the use of software such as gnomad. But I think that this is not the case with the ZEN NANO PLUS (usb 2.0, 1000 Mbyte). True, although they lack .ogg support and you have to put .wav files in a special directory

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Rob Wright
On Monday 16 April 2007 10:24, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. I had almost the same specs in mind when I

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Dusty Wilson
On 4/16/07, Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. In addition to what everyone else already said, don't forget

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-17 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:01:55 +0200, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. Hi folks, Thanks for the help. Looks like I have some followup research to do. I should clarify what I mean by

Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. Do you all have any suggestions? Many thanks for any help, Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:24:46AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: I ended up with an Iriver T30. It's like 59.95 at Sears on a 50% off (I think the retail was about 119.95). It's a gig,

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: I have a Sandisk e140, with 1 gb onboard, and uses up to a 2GB SD-card in the side. Shows up as two disks, no special software needed to copy mp3's and

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread j m g
Try the Sandisk Sansa e200's they run from 1 to 8gb so they might hit your price point somewhere along the way, don't use alkalines, but there is a user replacable li-ion battery. Also, rockbox.org just realeased their firmware replacement in march for the e200 line. I've only had mine for a

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070416 13:28]: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. The smaller Creative players are tiny, rugged, reliable,

[OT] Need to carry around 750 songs? (was Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?)

2007-04-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/16/07 11:40, Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: I have a Sandisk e140, with 1 gb onboard, and uses up to a 2GB

Re: [OT] Need to carry around 750 songs? (was Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?)

2007-04-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: 3GB will hold 750 4MB songs. Is the user interface so efficient that it's simple to work with them? How do you remember what's in all those playlists? It's decent enough, you can select by artist, album, songs, favorites, genre, year, spoken word.. i

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070416 13:28]: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. The smaller Creative players are

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:47:45 +0200 Magnus Pedersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the gnomad in Debian is borked! You need to compile your own, but then it just works. It almost work with libmtp in amarok and konqueror, you can erease files and list stuff, but not upload new files ;-) That

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:57:57 -0700 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems to mirror my experiences with the iriver T30. Question - would getting gnomad make life any easier? I guess I can give it a try. Bad form to followup to myself, but gnomad2 does seem to work with the iriver