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~slice

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 58

Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Hi I am looking for an mp3 player that plays nice with linux. I have a 4gig creative zen plus. but its a pain to transfer music and theres no (real) video support. So I am looking for something that I can drag and drop music and hopefully has video support. thanks.:cool:

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kevin89

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 218

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Hey slice,

I have both the Microsoft (aherm, yes, microsoft) Zune 80gb and a Meizu 8gb.

Needless to say, the Zune doesn't play nice on *nix. The Meizu however, is  recognized as an external hard drive, and you can just drag 'n drop files

Also, the player is very very good at playing files, the sound quality is awesome. It has an very good equalizer, I totally love the sound this little thing produces! It's quite cheap aswell.

You should take a look at the Meizu M6 8GB. I totally recommend it!

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I personally have the Cowon iAudio 7. It just mounts as a external drive. Supports Ogg, Flac, Mp3. Has a great battery life.

~slice

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2007-10-31

Posts: 58

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Cool. Thanks for the inputs.

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kamagurka

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 150

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

The cowon iAudio rocks a lot. It has an amazing soundchip, works as mass storage and can even be flashed to use open source firmware (just google rockbox), which among other things gives it replaygain capabilities, which I personally couldn't do without anymore.

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koch

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 369

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

i have a sony walkman and it is great

venox

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From: Curitiba, Brazil

Registered: 2003-08-23

Posts: 137

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have a First Gen iPod Nano. Works great with linux. Even better if you use Rockbox.

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jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have a Sansa e240.  It's very strict about the ID3 tags, but it works.

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pestilence

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From: Athens

Registered: 2008-03-16

Posts: 53

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Ipod + gtpod allthough I haven't tested video (I need my eyes yet )

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Hohoho

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Registered: 2007-06-23

Posts: 222

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Sansa e260 with Rockbox, it rocks!

Sp4rkR4t

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From: Southampton

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 110

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Anything by iPlayer, they have always made superb and unique players.

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I think the iPods are always very nice looking, and even the Sansa players look very great, but personally I don't want to install any third party firmware, just to be able to listen to Ogg Vorbis and Flac (mostly Ogg Vorbis). So I buy products from companies that do come with Ogg Vorbis out of the box.
If I'd buy a mp3 player now, it would probably be the Cowon iAudio u5 (http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5), mostly since the control seems a little bit better than the iAudio 7. Though no Ogg Vorbis is present out of the box, their latest firmware upgrade does have it.

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Rumor

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

+1 for the Cowon iAudio 7

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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

+1 for Meizu m6. -1 for ipod.

a1ex

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 91

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Careful with the Meizu M6 in Germany, or Europe in general. I tried to buy one, but here in Germany only strange imports with a fucked up firmware were available. (no radio, not loud enough, maybe more) So if you think you can flash it and live without guarantee it might be fine.

JawsThemeSwimming428

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From: USA

Registered: 2008-03-09

Posts: 149

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have a Creative Zen Micro 6GB and it was a pain in the neck to get working in Linux. Great sound and nice interface, but a real pain.

low

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 109

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

i had a 20gb ipod photo until i dropped it in a cup of water, but it worked great on linux. i used rockbox for a while because i wanted flac support, but ended up staying with the standard apple firmware because of battery life. both firmwares worked fine, rockbox was nice since it can be drag and drop and the apple firmware can be synced pretty easily with gtk-pod (or media players like songbird and banshee).

also, can someone ban nicole113?

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kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

The newest iPods don't seem to work well with a lot of the open-source media players.  So I would suggest if you want the newest of players, do not get an iPod.  I do have the 2nd-gen 8GB nano at the moment, but I only sync it with my iMac on iTunes and not with my Arch laptop.  But for those of us that only use Arch, I would go for something besides Apple IF you want the latest and greatest in MP3 players.

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

The newest iPods don't seem to work well with a lot of the open-source media players.  So I would suggest if you want the newest of players, do not get an iPod.  I do have the 2nd-gen 8GB nano at the moment, but I only sync it with my iMac on iTunes and not with my Arch laptop.  But for those of us that only use Arch, I would go for something besides Apple IF you want the latest and greatest in MP3 players.

I have the same I-Pod and it works perfectly with gtkpod. I've never had any issues at all with it. Well, except the price; I bought it new.

ThomasBisset

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From: Nairn, Scotland

Registered: 2008-07-16

Posts: 22

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have a Samsung YP-Z5 kicking about. Samsung have never mentioned it in any of their tech specs, but it does support Ogg Vorbis and it's a decent alternative to the iPod's and Sansa's. No video though, and the nice album art feature only seems to work with WMA files... grr...

coarseSand

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2008-02-11

Posts: 203

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I'll give another +1 to the Sansa e200s, they're a great series of mp3 players. They'll mount as a mass storage device, and you should definitely check the Anything But iPod forums for some user compiled Rockbox builds. I've also heard ridiculously good things about most Cowons, but I've never tried one myself. The e200 is nice and cheap though, so that's a good place to start yourself.

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Factory

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Registered: 2008-02-24

Posts: 108

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have a little 1GB Creative Zen Stone. Works like an external harddrive, so it's drag and drop. Not too bad for a tiny little guy. Battery life's around 10 hours, which is more than enough for what I need it for (I don't think I'll be going on any 10 hour jogs any time soon).

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fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

A TrekStor Vibez, despite coming from a small company and having an ugly deliberately-misspelled marketing name, is an awesome player for linux. It will play your flac and ogg files, sync via drag and drop, give you plenty of audiophile options, and it has a surprising capacity considering it's small size (mine was the size of most 4GB players at the time I got it and it holds 12GB, but I think there's a higher model now too). Plus it looks beautiful. Cost me just under $200 if I remember correctly.

EDIT: Oh, and the battery life is upwards of 20 hours, even with a color screen.

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Pinqvin

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Registered: 2008-05-24

Posts: 8

Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

Recently bought a 60gb iPod Video. With Rockbox on it, I'm having a hard time trying to spot another player on the market with that much HDD space and the vast support for codecs that Rockbox offers. Battery life isn't all that amazing (depends on the files you are listening, of course) but then again it's a lot better than my older 1gt MP3 player which still used disposable batteries

Also, when using Rockbox you don't have to use iTunes, which is a HUGE plus. At least in my opinion.

s26c.sayan

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From: Kolkata, India

Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 176

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Re: Can anyone suggest a MP3 Player?

I have bought an iAudio  U5 just two days back, and it works fine with Linux.

Is there something like Rockbox for iAudio U5?

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