[Gllug] Linux friendly mp3 player

Stuart stuart at sjsears.com
Thu Jan 10 09:43:19 UTC 2008


salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> On Thu, January 10, 2008 09:21, Adam Porr wrote:
>>> I am looking for a good mp3 player which could be used without any
>>> proprietary software to copy music. I would like the player to appear in
>>> Linux as a flash disk, so that I can copy files manually (thus no iPod).
>>> Does anybody have any recommendation, please? I understand that iRiver
>>> or
>>> SanDisk should be OK.
> 
> What's the problem with the iPod ? I can copy files manually to mine with
> no problem. The only thing I don't like about it is that it can't play ogg
> vorbis files.

AIUI the latest generation iPods don't work like this. You still need to 
regenerate their database for them to recognise audio files. I had no 
luck with a new iPod nano and gtkpod when I tried this...


Stuart
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