From martine@cs.washington.edu Wed Nov 20 01:12:32 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.137]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with SMTP id gAK9CWrw014656 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:12:32 -0800 Received: FROM mxu7.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Nov 20 01:12:31 2002 -0800 Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mxu7.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.11) with ESMTP id gAK9CVQl009015 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:12:31 -0800 Received: from bunny.darktech.org ([12.231.124.103]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021120091229.JAIN1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@bunny.darktech.org> for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:12:29 +0000 Received: from martine by bunny.darktech.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18EQn1-0007kd-00 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:04:55 -0800 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:04:55 -0800 To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Portable MP3 players compatible with Linux? Message-ID: <20021120090455.GA29786@bunny.darktech.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: martine@cs.washington.edu 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 .