If you want Ogg Vorbis support, you might want to look at the Samsung ones.
I have a year-old, small (smaller than the new iPod Shuffle) YP-F1 with a pretty decent FM tuner (only station it doesn't catch is perhaps 106.5FM), and 512MB (and costs less than the shuffle). It plays nice with Rhythmbox on my Ubuntu notebook. It can play MP3, OGG and WMA. DRM-d WMA's are not supported of course when syncing using Linux (but then why would you even go the DRM way if you take pride in the freedom of Linux). I'm sure they have newer models with more capacity. RAj -----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of UM-LINUX automatic digest system Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: UM-LINUX Digest - 8 Jan 2007 to 9 Jan 2007 (#2007-4) There are 4 messages totalling 128 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. mp3 Players and Linux (4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:19:35 -0500 From: David Eisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mp3 Players and Linux David Zakar wrote: > It has been my own personal experience that DAP FM tuners don't really > work at all in the greater DC area - the spectrum is just too saturated. > My gf has a Creative Zen V Plus, and it gets pretty good FM reception (even picks up WMUC!). It's a nice player, but I don't know how well it works with Linux. Though it uses Microsoft's MTP [1] to talk to the PC, it sounds like it might be possible to get it to work with Linux. [2] -David [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol [2] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=492454 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:41:05 -0500 From: Bernie Hackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mp3 Players and Linux I know you said you want an FM receiver but I just thought I'd throw my weight behind the ipod anyway. I have a mini and it works perfectly under linux. Just about every media player out there supports it now. Amarok, Banshee, Rhythmbox, etc. can all read and write the ipod database. GTKpod works really well also. I haven't used itunes more than once since I bought it two years ago. ~bernie ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:28:25 -0500 >From: Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [UM-LINUX] mp3 Players and Linux >To: [email protected] > >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 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:52:25 -0500 From: "Ritchie, Josiah S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mp3 Players and Linux > -----Original Message----- > From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nick Cummings > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 5:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [UM-LINUX] mp3 Players and Linux > > 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). Can't beat the superTalent MegaScreen I got for Christmas for feature/price ratio. The big issue is that I can't figure out how to get the pictures formatted for it under Linux, but other than that, USB Mass Storage with FM receiver, recording capabilities. I have a 2Gb one, but the SuperTalent Plus has, I think, larger capacity. JSR/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:23:43 -0500 From: Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mp3 Players and Linux On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:41:05AM -0500, Bernie Hackett wrote: > I know you said you want an FM receiver but I just thought I'd throw my > weight behind the ipod anyway. I have a mini and it works perfectly under > linux. Just about every media player out there supports it now. Amarok, > Banshee, Rhythmbox, etc. can all read and write the ipod database. GTKpod > works really well also. I haven't used itunes more than once since I > bought it two years ago. Another vote for iPod + gtkpod; good stuff. - Rob . ------------------------------ End of UM-LINUX Digest - 8 Jan 2007 to 9 Jan 2007 (#2007-4) ***********************************************************
