Ubuntu and personal media players

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:38 +1030, squareyes wrote:
> On 11/11/10 20:17, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 20:19 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >    
> >> On 11/11/2010 20:09, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>      
> >>> Would someone recommend a mp3/ogg player that plays well with Linux and
> >>> is cheap? I bought a Polaroid PMP-180 POS that cratered out the next day
> >>> after I loaded some MP3's on it. I'm not happy. It was cheap, but
> >>> evidentially not cheap enough. Just so you all know, Polaroid's tech
> >>> support from "southerntelecom" is non existent. I guess they saw Jobs
> >>> making a buck and wanted to cash in. Did I say I'm NOT HAPPY?? Feel
> >>> perfectly free to letter bomb them for taking Wayward4now's money. I'm
> >>> hoping google will pick up on this rant for search results, too.
> >>>
> >>> Revenge is a dish best served cold. :) Ric
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Hell, Murph, whereyabeen? vlc will play anything - if you let it.
> >>
> >> Some people even suggest<shudder>  somthing called Amarok....
> >>      
> > Upside-down Australian person, I was referring to device that plays
> > MP3's, that uses a USB connection to the computer to load files and
> > allows me to rock out while mowing 7 acres of lawn. AC-DC time! Ric
> >    
> Hi,
> I have a Thompson Lyra Cheap, around $40 Aust I think from Tandy's
> Plugs in to usb and loads mp3's fine on 10.04
> Hope this helps if your an upside down individual like me (Or one of the 
> normal side up ) :-)

This POS works fine as a thumbdrive. I can plug it in, read/write files
just dandy. It just gave up the ghost to play tunes on it's own, which
is what I want it to do. I could have gotten a LOT more than 2gigs for
what I paid for this shiny brick. Ric

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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