the Cowon (iAudio) brand is extremely linux friendly. I've got an iAudio x5, and one of my main buying decisions was that it would work easily with linux. As I understand it, all of Cowon's players function as generic mass storage devices running a fat32 filesystem. So, if you can mount a fat32 disk, you can use a Cowon product with linux no sweat.
iAudio flash players seem to be generally well regarded for battery life and sound quality, but as I'm not in the market for a flash player I'm not up to speed on all the other ones you've mentioned. On 1/8/07, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking to get a new, flash-based mp3 player in the 2-6 GB range. These days I exclusively use Linux, so I need a player capable of playing nice. I gather that there's some limited support for a protocol called MTP, but basically it sounds like you usually need a player that operates as a USB mass storage (UMS) device in order for things to work smoothly. Anyone have suggestions about what players I should check out? My only somewhat weird requirement is that I'd really like it to have a decent FM tuner. So far I've looked seriously at the iPod Nano (2nd gen, 4GB), the SanDisk Sansa e260, the iRiver Clix (4GB), and the Cowon iAudio U3 (2GB). Thanks for your help, Nick
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