[ILUG] Advice on a digital music player

[Darragh Bailey]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:48:51AM +0000, 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. I prefer a model that
> simply interfaces as a USB Mass Storage device, so I don't have to
> deal with any silly software for transferring tunes.
> 
> It has to be able to play both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. Other formats would
> be nice, but not required.
> 
> Does anyone in ILUG have something like this that they've had good
> luck with and would recommend to me? For bonus points, I'm heading up
> to Belfast this weekend, so if you know a place in Belfast that would
> probably carry the aforementioned music player, that would be great.
> 
> 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.
> :)

Cowan players will fit the bill here. Generally their devices support MP3, 
Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC.

They also nearly always mount as a usb storage device, so it's simply a
case of drag 'n' drop to transfer music, either onto or off the device.

I have the 2GB U3 player, which has served me well and has give no
problems.

If you're feeling flush the S9 16GB model looks pretty sweet :)

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."