portable mp3 player recommendation

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-27 10:26, Christopher J. Bottaro whipped out a 
trusty #2 pencil and scribbled:

>Dave Cross wrote:
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>>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:31:00 +0200, Andrea Giuliano
>><a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it> wrote:
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>>>Dear Christopher,
>>>
>>>your question is a bit confuse. Please specify what is a "portable mp3
>>>player": a laser product? A pen drive? A hard drive?
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>>He means an mp3 player. Something like an iPod.
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>>>Also, why do you ask "what kind of Linux (specifically KDE support) do
>>>these devices have"? I don't think they need to even have an operating
>>>system.
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>>He's talking about Linux software for loading these products. I
>>believe that most of them can be configured to look like a USB
>>filesystem, but I don't know which ones have more complete softwre
>>available for Linux.
>>
>>Dave...
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>Heh, yeah...what Dave said...=)  I meant to say "What kind of Linux support
>(specifically KDE support) do these devices have?".  And by support, I
>meant what kind of Linux programs are available to get the mp3s to and from
>the device, setup playlists, etc etc.
>
>Thanks.
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Just to clarify, with what little I've picked up from the newsgroups.  
There are apparently certain brands/models of mp3 players which do *not* 
support the simple mechanism of looking like an ordinary USB mounted 
file system.  Such players require specific manufacturer-provided 
software to move mp3 files to the device, and of course they mostly 
provide Windows versions, sometimes a Mac version, but almost never a 
Linux version. 

So the key technical point is to find out whether or not the device 
supports ordinary file transfer like a pen drive over USB.  If not, I 
would look for something else.  Most versions of Linux support USB file 
systems.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. And tomorrow isn't looking good either.

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