From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 29 05:10:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1935D16A4DD for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:10:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC97843D46 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:10:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alive@dienub.org) Received: from m00h.dienub.org (dienub.org [83.88.67.155]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9A3A50030; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:10:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by m00h.dienub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E4C1CC0B; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <44F3CC59.4010207@dienub.org> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:10:50 +0200 From: "Daniel A." User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: soralx@cydem.org References: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org> In-Reply-To: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portable audio player >= 18Gb X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:10:57 -0000 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