[vox] Linux-compatible MP3 player recommendations wanted!

[Richard Mancusi]

Bill -

Please look at this link and see what you think.  I
would also like to hear from someone who is
actually using gtkpod.  It appears to do what you
and I want.  But before I shell out the iPod $ ...

http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html

Rich


On 5/31/05, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> The last time I had an MP3 player, it was an old RIO which I connected to
> my Pentium I using a wacky parallel port connector.
> 
> These days, the kind of MP3 player I'd want for Linux would probably just
> be a USB 'mass storage' device, and/or use a standard memory card, like
> Compact Flash (CF) or Secure Digital (SD).  (I have a reader for the former,
> which I currently use to get photos out of my camera, and transfer files
> quickly to/from my Zaurus.)
> 
> Has anyone out here got recommendations for such a beast?  I haven't looked
> at MP3 players in a while, and have no idea where to start.  Would an
> Apple iPod be usable without lots of crazy configuration and trickery?
> (I have a feeling they're way more expensive than they're worth :^) )
> 
> What about those Zen things I've seen advertised and in store windows?
> 
> 
> (This would be for on-the-go listening, BTW... not for any kind of in-home
> use, as we've got Zaurus and laptops and desktops for that. :^) )
> 
> Thx!
> 
> --
> -bill!
> bill at newbreedsoftware.com
> http://newbreedsoftware.com/
> _______________________________________________
> vox mailing list
> vox at lists.lugod.org
> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox
>