you may want to spend some time in each manufacture's forums area - see what people are complaining about, see what problems folks are having etc.... I spent a month monitoring the neuros forums about 1.5 years ago - they were begging for the firmware source - looks like they finally got it! On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 16:33:21 -0500, meierjo <john.meier at gmail.com> wrote: > Also here's a news flash about the neuros: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/01/neuros_open_source/ > > and the archos - which has an open source project for better firmware: > http://rockbox.haxx.se/ > > I think you can get a archos pretty cheap these days... like $100 or so... > > > > On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 08:16:00 -0500, Paul Cutler <silwenae at silwenae.com> wrote: > > You might want to look into iRiver. I have one of their hard drive > > products which works great in Linux. And their Ogg support is one of > > the best. > > > > As far as their flash based players, there is a Sourceforge project for > > iRiver flash players in beta - http://ifp-driver.sourceforge.net/ . > > Googling around I saw various threads for Debian and Gentoo getting > > their flash players to work, so help should be available. > > > > --paul > > > > > > > > On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 01:22, Ian Stoner wrote: > > > I would like to get an 128 or 256 MB mp3 player to take along while > > > running or engaging in other forms of monotonous physical activity. It > > > has to support GNU/Linux, which, as I understand it, means it has to > > > function as a USB mass-storage device. It has to be reasonably durable. > > > I'd prefer that it plays ogg vorbis in addition to mp3. > > > > > > I've been looking at the Creative Nomad/Muvo, which definitely meet the > > > first criterion, dunno about the second, and they fail the third. Does > > > anyone have experience with the Nomads? Are there players that people > > > like better? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list