[Tfug] MP3 players and Linux

[Jeremy D. Rogers]

I bought my wife an MPIO FY-200 (this is a bic lighter style model)
flash mp3 player for christmas last year.

It claimed to work as usb mass storage, but when I opened it (erm.. when
she opened it, or pealed off the scotch tape on the box) we found that
it needed firmware upgrade that was not yet availible. Eventually they
got around to releasing it and it now works under linux, but required a
win machine to initially upgrade the firmware.

It also has an FM tuner that she finds suprisingly useful. And she even
uses the voice recorder to record her interviews. 

Overall, its great, but no ogg and the biggest storage model is only 512
MB, so you definatley have to cycle your music from time to time.

I think they make HD class players, but I don't know about usb mass
storage support for those.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:42:31PM -0700, 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?
> 
> -- 
> Sam Hart
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> Personal addr. <sam at samhart.net>
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Jeremy Rogers
Graduate Research Assistant
Optical Sciences Center
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