MP3 Players

[Scott Elcomb]

On 2/27/06, John Moniz <john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> My daughter is hoping for an MP3 player for her birthday. I just checked
> the Sony line at their store and started losing interest in the Sony
> products when the salesman insisted I was required to use the Sony PC
> software to load music to the player (it compresses the songs even
> further, supposedly). I couldn't get past the point with him that I was
> not going to use his proprietary software.
>
>  From people's experiences, do any of the USB MP3 players get recognized
> as a drive in Linux so I can do a simple MP3 file transfer? Are there
> any players known to be trouble with Linux?

I've happily used the Nexxtech line of mp3-player-slash-usb-keys.  Not
as fancy as iPod's or other mp3 players, but they're fairly decent for
a low-cost solution.

I've used both the 64Mb and 128Mb keys in this family. 
http://tinyurl.com/oxn8p (The 64Mb key I've used is the first one
shown on this page)

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