On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Dave Morley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Liam if you decide to upgrade go for a sansa fuze I can't rate it highly > enough. Ogg support, amazing soundand pic/film quality and upgradable > memory with hdsd micro cards. Thanks for the suggestion! The thing is, I bought the Archos just last year for 4 specific reasons: - Takes a standard 2.5" EIDE notebook hard disk (mine has a 100GB disk fitted); - Takes 4 standard AA batteries, so you can change them if you run out on the move; - Appears as a standard USB hard disk, so no sync software needed; - Supported by Rockbox for a better UI The only snags with it are that it cannot charge over USB (and uses a special, illegal USB A to A cable), and that the decoder chip is so basic that it doesn't support OGG, FLAC or other modern formats. I don't have any WMA or AAC tracks so I don't know if it works with them or not. I'm guessing not. The player cost me about £10 on eBay (mint, boxed, complete, manuals & all) and I installed a 100GB disk I had lying around anyway, so it was a really good deal! But if there was any other MP3 player around that met criteria #1-3 of my list there, I'd snap one up like a shot. I don't want video playback or anything like that, just a big capacity: the more the better. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
