[Tfug] MP3 players and Linux

[Andrew Huntwork]

iPod!  no ogg, but aac, mp3,wav, and i understand the newest firmware to 
which i have not upgraded supports some sort of lossless encoding.

the itunes music store files are now basically an open format (see 
videolan client for details), so that's nice.  the store itself has yet 
to be reverse engineered, as far as i know, so you still have to buy on 
windows or mac, but then you can play on linux.

there's also a nice interface (to which I have contributed a little 
code) at gtkpod.sf.net

Sam Hart wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I'm broke so I'm not asking for myself, but a friend of mine (Jacob Greig, 
> used to be on TFUG before he got a great job and moved away, so I'm sure 
> some of you know him) was asking about what MP3 players work well under 
> Linux. I didn't know, so I thought I'd ask here.
> 
> What he wants is:
> 	* MP3 Player with reasonable size storage (pref. hard drive ala
> 	iPod or that Gateway one)
> 	* Acts as a USB/Firewire mounted drive under Linux (so he can
> 	drop MP3 files in there, or anything else he may want to
> 	back up)
> 	* Plays music reasonably well (I've heard rumblings about the
> 	recent offerings from Dell that don't sound too good)
> 	* OGG support would also be a big plus.
> 
> So, anyone here know anything about it?
>