Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:39:46 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Fabian Keil" <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portable audio player >= 18Gb Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608280939w5f7c766dja98dc41eedb0dda5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060828132818.396b266c@localhost> References: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org> <20060828132818.396b266c@localhost>
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On 8/28/06, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> wrote: > soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > > is anyone feeling kind enough today to recommend a good mp3/ogg player? ;) > > AFAIK there are no good mp3/ogg players available yet, > some are good enough though. > > > The basic requirement is that it should be just a standard umass device, > > so I could upload dirs with music files onto it, and then simply tell the > > device to play all files in a certain directory, or make some playlists > > and play them sequentially. None of that "synchronization" or id3-database > > crap. > > AFAIK, the only player that has more or less usable interface (the way I > > described) is the Cowon, model X5L. However, it'd be interesting to know > > if there are (or will be soon) any alternatives. > > I know nothing about the Cowon X5L, but bought an iRiver H340 about a > year ago. It has several flaws, but back then it was the best device > I could find. I wouldn't be surprised if it still is. > > I wrote about the H340 in general at: > http://www.fabiankeil.de/produkt-erfahrungen/iriver-h340.html > and about using it with FreeBSD at: > http://www.fabiankeil.de/freebsd/iriver-h340.html > The texts are in German, you might have to run them > through one of the website translation services. > > Even if you decide to get a different player, > I strongly suggest that you get one that can boot > Rockbox. http://www.rockbox.org/ > I have a Cowon iAUDIO 5 that works well enough with FreeBSD. It shows up on the system like a USB Flash drive would: umass0: COWON iAUDIO 5, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <COWON iAUDIO 5 0100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 992MB (2032384 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 992C) # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbflash0/ # umount /mnt/usbflash0/ # camcontrol eject da0 Unit stopped successfully, Media ejected It does play ogg vorbis files but I haven't tested that feature and I remember having to upgrade it's firmware but can't remember why. Best of all is that it was ~$100 when I bought it and that it has voice and 3.5" in-line jack so I can record (lectures, etc.) directly to mp3 format and it has a build in FM radio. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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