> Since recently I have some extra money in my pocket, I'm interested in > buying some sort of portable music player. My criteria are these:
I have a Nex II from Frontier Labs > 1) MUST play both MP3 and OGG formats, since I have a substantial > amount of both, and no current physical access to my source > material in order to re-rip to one or the other... MP3 and wma. No Ogg that I know of. Frontier now has a newer model. > > 2) Should be small and lightweight -- my main use will be to enhance > my jogging experiences Smaller then a pack of cards > > 3) 128MB of RAM is ideal. I can live with 64MB. More than 128MB is > not necessary, and probably a waste of my money. Put in any compact flash card you want. > 4) Ideally, it should interface easily with Linux. I have USB, > ieee1394, and smart-card interfaces available. Unfortunately the USB > is only USB1, but the device should ideally do USB2 for when I > upgrade. USB1. Shows up as a disk drive. There's some windows drivers that might do more, but I've never loaded them. I have a USB2 multicard reader that I use for my camera CF. It works great and I always have it out. I never use the USB in my MP3 or cameras at home, but I might pack the cable for use elsewhere. > 5) Price and battery life are considerations. I forget what I paid but it was reasonable. I have lots of CF for my camera (s) already. When I need another card for pictures, I can always take the CF out of the MP3 player. I'd use the player when I commuted on the train to Cambridge about 3 hours a day. I'd get maybe a week on 2 NiMH AA (AAA?). I had an extra charger I left at work. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
