[SATLUG] Portable mp3 players and linux

[Greg Willden]

I'm a little late to this conversation but I just wanted to say that
BestBuy's house brand Insignia NS-DA2G is excellent.  Very small, 2GB,
Cheap ($50 for the 1GB).  They play OGG, MP3, WMA.

I bought an action jacket armband that is great for running.
I have a minor nitpick or two but all in all very good.
Greg

On 9/1/07, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in finding a relatively inexpensive portable mp3 player
> for jogging and walking.  I really don't know much about the hardware
> players.  I know that the .mp3 format is a compressed audio format
> (actually misnamed because the format is MPEG 1 Level 3, not MPEG 3).
>
> I see that I can create .mp3 files from .wav files with LAME and can
> download free (or not) .mp3 files from the internet.  I can rip a CD I
> own to .wav files with cdparanoia.  All this means that I really don't
> have a problem getting the content.
>
> The functionality of a mp3 player would seem to me to be fairly simple.
>  I was looking at the store today and saw several players.  My question
> is how can I manage the .mp3 files on the portable player with linux?
> Is is as simple as mounting via usb or firewire (IEEE 1394) or is there
> something else?
>
> I'm not really interested in an ipod because it seems to be too
> expensive, but there do seem to be some players in the $40 range
> available.  Any recommendations would be appreciated.
>
>   -- Bruce
>
>
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