It has been my own personal experience that DAP FM tuners don't really work at all in the greater DC area - the spectrum is just too saturated.
I had a buddy with a Cowon, and he loved it. It isn't perfect, but it's still a nice piece of kit. -DMZ On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 18:40 -0500, Nick Cummings wrote: > Yes, from things I read I did get the idea that Cowon players are quite > Linux friendly. My only reservations about the iAudio U3 are 1) it seems > to come no larger than 2 GB (which is sort of the minimum of what I'd > consider), 2) I read a review that said the FM tuner wasn't that great, 3) > the same review said the controls aren't that great (but that's highly > subjective). > > It does sound neat otherwise. It supposedly supports OGG and FLAC. The > other upside is that it's comparatively cheap. > > Nick > > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Christopher Conroy wrote: > > > the Cowon (iAudio) brand is extremely linux friendly. I've got an iAudio x5, > > and one of my main buying decisions was that it would work easily with > > linux. As I understand it, all of Cowon's players function as generic mass > > storage devices running a fat32 filesystem. So, if you can mount a fat32 > > disk, you can use a Cowon product with linux no sweat. > > > > iAudio flash players seem to be generally well regarded for battery life and > > sound quality, but as I'm not in the market for a flash player I'm not up to > > speed on all the other ones you've mentioned. > >
