[wplug] Linux and Portable MP3 Players

[David Ostroske]

Any MP3 player that acts like a USB mass storage device works with Linux 2.4. These are usually pretty cheap, and you can use them for transferring files as well as for playing music.

I have a 256MB pen drive, which I recommend.
http://www.pendrive.com

--- David Ostroske
    eksortso at linuxmail.org


----- Original Message -----
From: Michael E Uhl <meu102 at comcast.net>
Date: 04 Oct 2003 23:19:13 -0400
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Linux and Portable MP3 Players

> I am trying to go low cost on this.  Several people have suggested
> multi-gigabyte jukeboxes, but I only have like ~7 gigabytes of music in
> total, so a 20 gigabyte player is a little overkill.  I was thinking
> about something with ~128 MB of storage (possibly expandable), just
> enough for a couple hours of music.  The ability to play OGG audio would
> be a plus since that's the format the music is stored in, but
> re-encoding it for transfer to the portable device is a task that I see
> as being easily automated.  I will give some thought to the zaurus...
> 
> -michael

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