Re: Portable MP3 player?

2006-03-26 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Portable MP3 player?": > Since you can buybulk packs of 12 Everyready energizer AA batteries at > Office Depot for about the price of an 8 pack of the same batteries in > AAA, it quickly becomes a noticable diffe

Re: Portable MP3 player?

2006-03-26 Thread Gadi Cohen
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: The only problem I see with those numbersis that AFIK, the only "cheap" MP3 player that plays AAC files is the Apple iPOD shuffle which is ridiculously priced. In the U.S. a 512meg one sells for a competitive $69, here it is about twice that, yet they are only

Re: Portable MP3 player?

2006-03-26 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: > You can get one of those cheap no-name MP3 players that go for around 250 > shekels for the capacity you list (but check the stores and Internet sites > for up-to-date prices). They have everything you asked for, and much more > (inclu

Re: Portable MP3 player?

2006-03-25 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Portable MP3 player?": > > 1.Linux friendly. I want to be able to manage it from a Linux system, > a GUI is not needed. > 2.No moving parts. > 3.An LCD that shows song or file name. > 4.

Re: PocketPC [Was: Portable MP3 player?]

2006-03-23 Thread Oded Arbel
On Thursday, 23 בMarch 2006 18:30, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > Can you manage a PocketPC from Linux? I have an iPAQ, do you (or > > anyone) know of a way to sync it with Linux? A relatively painless > > backup solution for file

Re: PocketPC [Was: Portable MP3 player?]

2006-03-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Can you manage a PocketPC from Linux? I have an iPAQ, do you (or > anyone) know of a way to sync it with Linux? A relatively painless > backup solution for files/notes/phonebook/calendar/tasks is enough, I > don't need to actually s

Portable MP3 player?

2006-03-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Hi, I'm looking for a portable MP3 player with the following specs: 1. Linux friendly. I want to be able to manage it from a Linux system, a GUI is not needed. 2. No moving parts. 3. An LCD that shows song or file name. 4. Rechargeable or AA batteries (NO