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

[Alan Wardroper]

Have a look at rockbox, it's a replacement OSS firmware for a lot of players
(some older iPods too) - you flash out the firmware and it supports ogg and
lots of other formats too.
FWIW, my old Rio Karma was the best music player except the drive died on me
a few months ago. It supported flac and ogg out of the box. Shame the
company went belly up, it was a really nice player. If I can ever find a
replacement drive that doesn't cost an arm and a leg I might try to
resurrect it.
I replaced it with a 20GB iriver H10, which natively only supports wma and
mp3 (I think) but the rockbox FW works great. it mounts like a usb HDD on
linux, amarok sees it can be set to auto move podcasts onto it, and it plays
my oggs.

http://www.rockbox.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox
Here's a list of supported players
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox#Supported_devices

I don't like it as much as I liked my  karma though.


On 3/21/07, George Farris <farrisg at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Take a look at iAudio as well.
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-21-03 at 20:32 -0700, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > 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)
> >
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