[Discuss] Help - need good personal OGG player (what's MP3?) quickly

[Deryk Barker]

Andrew Willard wrote:
> Deryk Barker wrote:
>
>> Anyone think of a model, local supplier (Vancouver/online at a pinch?)
>
> There is a massive list online... 
> http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers
>
> The only model there that I've played with is the GP2X, but it's main 
> purpose
> in life is to play games so it's really over kill for what your asking 
> about.
>
> I think Compusmart still carries the Kingston line of media players 
> but you
> would need to give them a call... and I have no personal experience 
> with those
> machines.
>
> I know a woman that owns the 2GB iRiver (clix I think) that she simply 
> loves
> to death. You can get them from ncix.com in Vancouver... I've bought 
> plenty of
> things from them over the years with nary a problem.
> _
Hmm, it's not on their web site - do you know where your friend 
purchased it from? And does she know whether it needs special software 
on your pc - the iRiver spec says it needs "WIndows XP SP1" or better! 
(Not that there is much worse)