Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:10:50 +0200 From: "Daniel A." <alive@dienub.org> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portable audio player >= 18Gb Message-ID: <44F3CC59.4010207@dienub.org> In-Reply-To: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org> References: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org>
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soralx@cydem.org wrote: > is anyone feeling kind enough today to recommend a good mp3/ogg player? ;) > 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. Also, this player is not > available locally, so I'd appreciate if someone who used it for a while > could tell if they found anything bad about the device. > > [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" An iPod with RockBox firmware does a really nice job, and it is exactly how you described it: - A umass device - Interface has a "file browser" where you can select which folder/file to play - id3-database is highly optional, and far from default. - RockBox is Open-Source. Besides, RockBox supports not just ogg and mp3, but also FLAC, and some others - I forget. If you dont like iPods, then you can buy an Archos or iRivier portable player. Anyway, just check their website - rockbox.org
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