[vox] Linux Equivalent to IPod?

[Richard S. Crawford]

It's not a Linux based player, but I've had really good luck getting my
Creative Zen X-Fi talking to my Linux box, and transferring music files via
Amarok. I also like Amarok for managing podcasts, though I think older
versions are better than the newest ones.

HTH

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Bob Scofield <scofield at omsoft.com> wrote:

> I seem to recall a couple of years ago that there was a discussion here
> about
> Linux devices that were similar to IPods.  I didn't pay attention to it
> because I don't like walking around with ear phones.
>
> But I've recently jointed the Woodland YMCA gym, and when I'm on the
> exercise
> machines I don't like the music played over the load speaker.  I'm thinking
> about getting an IPod-like device and maybe listening to podcasts or
> something.
>
> I don't like the fact that (the last time I checked) you couldn't download
> from ITunes on Linux because they wouldn't give you Linux software.  I know
> a
> lot of Linux users like Apple, but I think Apple sometimes cooperates with
> Microsoft to suppress Linux.  So is that a non-Apple Linux device that's
> like
> an IPod?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bob
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