[dundee] Media/MP3 Player Recommendations

[Kris Davidson]

I recommend Cowon products also, I've got an A2 and an A3

2008/10/12 Gordon <gicoupar at googlemail.com>:
> Hello Rick,
>
> I just purchased a Cowon iaudio D2 (the DAB version) for about £130 a couple
> of days ago , I'm impressed so far , the only down side in your case is that
> the storage is flash based and therefore the sizes are
> 2gb,4gb(mine),8gb,16gb however this can be expanded using the sd card slot
> on the player. I'll just quickly list out the pros and cons for you that I
> have observed so far.
>
> Pros
> -----------
> + Excellent Sound Quality
> + Good Video Quality (I know you don't care but anyhow..)
> + Supports a substantial range of formats for music ( MP3 , OGG , FLAC , WAV
> , APE )
> + Compatible with Linux , Windows and Mac OSX due to it acting as a USB Mass
> storage device , software for video encoding is windows only however I have
> managed to get a full film ripped and encoded using linux.
> + 52 hours battery life for music. 10 hours for videos.
> + Good build quality (in my opinion)
> + 2.5 inch touch screen. (the device measures about 3.5" across , slightly
> smaller than a pack of cards.
> + FM Radio
> + DAB Radio (with the DAB version, usually about  £20-£30 more)
> + Regular Firmware Upgrades from Cowon.
>
>
> Cons
> ----------
> - Premium price compared to players of similair size.
> - Most likely far too small a storage capacity for what you are looking for.
> (however if you are willing to expand with sd cards then you can increase
> this by up to 32gb {I believe that is the highest capacity of SD cards right
> now..}
> - Blind navigation isn't brilliant as their are only 2 buttons that can be
> set to change the volume or the track , the rest is on the touch screen.
>
> As said I am very impressed by this little player, however the major
> downside for you is the storage space as unlike me , you have a large music
> collection. Just thought I'd put it out there though.
>
> Gordon.
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a replacement for my old MP3 Player (30gb iPod 5th Gen
>> - running Rockbox), as it's recently given up and died.  Overall I've
>> been disappointed at the reliability of Apples hardware; and I'd
>> really not like to be forced to purchase another.  However it looks
>> like the competition is pretty poor.
>>
>> I don't care much for watching videos, so don't really want to pay a
>> significant premium for a device to handle video; but I do want lots
>> of space as I download and listen to lots of podcasts and audio
>> lectures, plus I have a large music collection.  So my ideal device
>> will:
>>
>> - Be Linux compatible & Support the transfer of audio through a simple
>> copy (via USB Mass Storage) to the devices filesystem.  i.e. no stupid
>> proprietary software to make things difficult.
>> - Preferably have 100GB+ storage (and no less than 60gb))
>> - Be small and compact enough to fit in a trouser pocket.
>> - Optionally Support FLAC encoding
>> - Optionally be able to run Rockbox (not so important if I can upload
>> files with a simple copy).
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any such device?  It seems the MP3 Player market
>> is in dire straights just now, and is fascinated with flash based
>> storage and devices with about 8gb storage :-(
>>
>> --
>> Rick Moynihan
>> rick.moynihan at gmail.com
>> http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/
>>
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