Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux-friendly portable music player?

From: mik <mprims@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Sep 25 2006 - 21:22:24 EEST

the iriver h120. it's out of production but you can find it very easily
on ebay. new, at half the original price (which, maybe, is still too
much...). also good for recording.

m

Juhana Sadeharju schreef:
> Hello. What would be an economical and Linux-friendly portable
> music player?
>
> Best would be if the player would be seen as a USB disk.
> That is: mount /mnt/player ; cp songs/* /mnt/player/ ; umount /mnt/player
> Such a player would work in Linux naturally. Also, in Windows, that way
> I could download music from the web without installing a downloading
> software/driver. And yes, I cannot install anything because I don't own
> the Windows computers here.
>
> Does, e.g., Creative, Philips, ipod players require a downloading
> software to be installed, and therefore they work only in personal
> Windows? I have heard that one may copy songs to their players via
> USB disk but the players refuses to play the songs!
>
> What about ogg format? All players sold by local shops seem to support
> only mp3 and wma.
>
> Juhana

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