In the market for a new MP3 player

[Robert Menes]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM, jackie wallen <jlwallen at monkeypantz.net> wrote:
>
> Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>> My old Creative Nomad Zen Xtra has been a good workhorse for about six
>> years now, but recently it's started to show its age; it reboots
>> randomly and the KZenExplorer software no longer talks to it (although
>> Amarok does, which is peculiar). So I'm in the market for a new
>> MP3/media player. My ideal player would play videos as well as MP3's
>> and ogg files. Ideally there would be some desktop software which
>> could manage the files on the thing, including playlists (Amarok, for
>> all its coolness, fails miserably in this regard). I'm open to getting
>> an iPod but I'm told the latest ones do not play well with Linux.
>>
>> I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks!

Get an older iPod video and install Rockbox on it. Nuff said. :)

Okay, not nuff said. Ogg Vorbis support, drag-and-drop support, plays nice
with any OS... it's all there.

http://www.rockbox.org

--Rob
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