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From: "Michael J. Lu" <mjl@cac.washington.edu>
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Subject: RE: Portable MP3 players compatible with Linux?
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When you say that the UI displays tracks in the order that they're on
the FS, do you mean that it just displays everything without looking at
the ID3 tags? In other words, a navigatable directory listing as opposed
to the categorial system used on the iPod?

Thanks,


Mike Lu


-----Original Message-----
From: LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu [mailto:LINUX-owner@u.washington.edu]
On Behalf Of martine@cs.washington.edu
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:05 AM
To: UW Linux Group
Subject: Re: Portable MP3 players compatible with Linux?


On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:58:32PM -0800, Dan Sanderson wrote:
> I'm thinking of buying a low-end, portable, no-moving-parts music 
> player. Do we have Linux compatibility with any portable music players

> yet?

I use the Nex II.  It was cheap (basically a box around a CF card with
some batteries) and it appears as a generic USB storage device when you
plug it into Linux, so you just copy tracks using "cp".

http://www.frontierlabs.com/NexII.html
http://www.allan-home.co.uk/nexii/linux.htm

The UI on the device itself can be frustrating (it doesn't alpha-sort
your tracks, instead displaying them in the order they appear in the FS)
but most of the time I listen to music I just want to turn it on and
ignore it.


> The Ogg Vorbis FAQ says no music player hardware currently supports 
> it, so I won't bother to ask (though they mention an Ogg player for 
> the Sharp Zaurus, which is interesting).

Yeah.  You can just run mpg123 or ogg123 on those, or on an iPAQ... I
wish the Nex II was open source so someone could write an ogg player for
it.

-- 
      Evan Martin
martine@cs.washington.edu
  http://neugierig.org


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