[ale] [OT]: Opinions: MP3/MPEG players?

[Jay Loden]

Well, I've owned three iPods (20GB, 40GB, 60GB Photo), and I can definitely 
recommend the iPod. I use it strictly under Linux, so i can confirm it 
definitely works with Linux just fine.

If you run Linux, I would absolutely NOT recommend the Creative Zen. The Zen 
requires it's own driver to access the drive, instead of USB mass storage 
drivers, so there's no way to use it under Linux, and you also can't use it 
as a portable storage device.

If you're dead-set against the iPod, take a look at the iRiver, or possibly 
the Cowon iAudio, they were my other choices before I picked the iPod.

-Jay

On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:24 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   My Archos Jukebox is dying.  I love it but I want to upgrade to a
> video device.  Poking around I kind of like the Creative Zen.
> Unfortunately my video's range from MPEG to AVI and some others, most
> music is MP3 currently but it'd be easy to write a script to convert it
> I'm sure.  Anyone have any suggestions or opinions?  Anyone have a
> working unit they'd sell cheap?
>
> Robert