Portable MP3/OGG Player

mip · #1 7th January 2005, 01:38 PM

Can anyone recommend a digital music player that plays nice with Fedora. It should id possible be able to play both MP3s and OGGs.

kosmosik · #2 7th January 2005, 02:28 PM

http://primates.ximian.com/~jimmac/blog/Cool_Gear
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/iaudio/m3/

mip · #3 7th January 2005, 03:57 PM

Hmm looks good. I did have a smaller flash player in mind though. Any idea what the opinion of the U2 or G3?

http://eng.iaudio.com/zeroboard/product_G3.php
http://eng.iaudio.com/zeroboard/product_U2.php

Cheers, M.

mrtaber · #4 7th January 2005, 07:38 PM

I bought the 1 Gb U2 for myself; works like a charm. The only downside? Firmware upgrades have to be installed in Windows. Other than that, it handles my Ogg files (q7) no problem. It's truly a drag-and-drop operation. In fact, I like iAudio so much, I'm waiting for the successor to the M3, and I'm going to buy one of those (FLAC support)

I've done what many others have done--encode my CDs in FLAC for listening at the computer, and then lower-quality OGG for my portable players.

zephlyn · #5 7th January 2005, 08:00 PM

I have both a hard drive based and a flash based iRiver, and I have been happy with both. You have to install a special firmware upgrade for the flash player to make it a UMS device to work under Linux. The Hard Drive players support several file formats including OGG.

kevin tough · #6 29th March 2008, 12:33 AM

I bought a couple of the new Samsung players (T10 and YP-K3). I took them both back. They support OGG according to the literature but it may be just pod-casts or whatever.
Do yourself a favor and buy a Meizu Miniplayer. No firmware updates or need of other software. Out of the box and plays OGG in a couple minutes. Great to see at least one company makes a not so expensive Linux friendly player.

Kevin Tough