[ltp] SOT: Linux friendly MP3 player

[David Tansey]

I have an iaudio g3 and I like it. It has 2gb of storage (the model I
have at least,) an FM tuner, and a voice recorder (that is _very_ good.
and you can adjust the quality of the wav/mp3.) It is powered by one AA
battery and lasts me a long time between charges (I'd guess over forty
hours -- I know because I work the graveyard shift at a bookstore and
listen to audio books that I encode to ogg for most of my shift everyday
and I don't think I even replace it once a week.)

I got it because it acts as a mass storage device, so it works happily
on any operating system -- it just shows up as an external USB drive and
you copy the ogg/mp3s/whatever-else-it-supports to the "music"
directory.

If you get it I have something to tell you -- I never read the manual
and I regret it. It took me forever to figure out that if you hold down
the little dial for a couple seconds it jumps into the navigation mode
and you can create playlists fairly easily (though I keep my different
albums in different directories so it is pretty easy for me to find my
mind. it would be harder if I just had files, I guess.) 

my 0.02

-David

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:56 -0400, jcms wrote:
>   I've an iriver iFP-899 and I'm very happy with it.
> 
>   1GBytes
>   FM radio
>   MP3 encoder
>   Recorder ( voice & radio )
> 
>   It's small and runs on one AA battery.
> 
>   I use ifpmanager.pl on my linux box to move files around.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jeffrey L. Taylor" <linux-tp@austinblues.dyndns.org>
> Sent: Oct 26, 2005 11:37 AM
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: [ltp] SOT: Linux friendly MP3 player
> 
> I am looking for a Linux friendly portable MP3 player.  Cost is a
> consideration but cheap and unreliable is not an option.  It's
> predominate use will be to listen to podcasts, webcasts, etc. on
> technical subjects.  I'm hoping that I'll get out and
> walk/run/exercise more if I can keep feeding my information greed at
> the same time.
> 
> TIA,
>   Jeff
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