In the market for a new MP3 player

[jackie wallen]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> My old Creative Nomad Zen Xtra has been a good workhorse for about six
> years now, but recently it's started to show its age; it reboots
> randomly and the KZenExplorer software no longer talks to it (although
> Amarok does, which is peculiar). So I'm in the market for a new
> MP3/media player. My ideal player would play videos as well as MP3's
> and ogg files. Ideally there would be some desktop software which
> could manage the files on the thing, including playlists (Amarok, for
> all its coolness, fails miserably in this regard). I'm open to getting
> an iPod but I'm told the latest ones do not play well with Linux.
> 
> I'm open to all suggestions. Thanks!
I have a Sandisk Fuze. it works great with Ubuntu. the sound is amazing 
and it has an external microSD slot for expansion.

i need to check to see if they've released a new firmware because the 
current doesn't support ogg. Sandisk has said they intend on adding ogg 
support soon.
> 

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Jack Wallen, Jr

"Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have 
advanced mankind and have enriched the world." Emma Goldman