[ILUG] Advice on a digital music player

[Thomas Rooney]

On 29 Jan 2009, at 09:48, Josh Glover wrote:

> This may be slightly off-topic, but I'm looking to buy a portable
> digital music player (i.e. an "iPod", in the unfortunate vernacular)
> with a hard drive that I can use with Linux.

>
> It has to be able to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. Other formats would
> be nice, but not required.
>

>
> For an additional incentive beyond helping your fellow Linux user, I'm
> happy to buy a pint for anyone with helpful advice at the next PotD.
> :)
>
> --  
> Cheers,
> Josh
Just to add my 2 cents...
I like my iRiver h140 it's running its default firmware and "Rock Box"  
an
open source OS for media players!

Here is a list of the devices it currently supports

http://www.rockbox.org/download/

I really like the iRiver it's a 40Gb player but I have it partitioned  
25Gb /music (fat32)
and 15Gb /home directory I  boot of a USB stick as you cant boot from  
the iRiver h140
(other models might differ) then mount /home and the media partition.

Regards
Tom

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