[ale] Portable MP3 player support

[aaron]

On Saturday 19 October 2002 10:44, Ryan wrote:
> Anyone found any decent portable MP3 players with Linux support?

My solution (for my daughter, actually) was to buy a CD player that 
supported MP-3 data CD's. Even if I include the $90 cost of a CD burner, 
it comes out cheaper than most any of the hard memory based units ($70 
lowest price model at Circuit City).

Upsides include virtually unlimited storage, since a single CD can hold 
several hours of of high quality MP-3 selections and there are no system 
interface worries (at least once you know that the player needs the 
Joliet file system extensions:).

Biggest downside is that it isn't going to be as useful while jogging or 
doing similarly bouncy activities.  Even there, though, I have noticed 
that our RIO Blue CD player is pretty smart; it only spins up the disk 
when it needs to, then it offloads large blocks of the MP-3 selections to 
the "anti-skip" memory and plays them from there; good power conservation 
and memory use.

If your application doesn't preclude a CD based solution, we've found it 
to work pretty well. My hope is that some bright manufacturer will soon 
release a portable CD player that also supports OGG!

peace
aaron




> I
> am debating an iPod, but the effort required to build in support
> irritates me. If it takes 45 minutes to integrate support into
> the kernel, each time an upgrade comes out I waste that much time
> again. Looking for something reliable that works out of the box.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions,
> Ryan


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