[ltp] Re: SOT: Linux friendly MP3 player

[Michael Perry]

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

I've been using a 40g Ipod for quite some time with debian unstable and
GTKpod.  Works very well for me.  In fact, when I first got the Ipod a
year or so ago, I had problems getting music onto it using XP so read
the readme for GTKpod and had it working pretty easily including
auto-mounting the ipod when I hook it up.  Be sure to read the readme
carefully because I made a single stupid mistake by removing the device
without unmounting it first and it messed things up significantly.

I've only tried this on a relatively recent 2.6 kernel but I have had
Fedora Core 4 and Debian Unstable syncing it very easily.

Cost may be an issue though and I'm unsure anymore what the 40g ipods
cost out at.


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