In the market for a new MP3 player

[Derek Broughton]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

> On Monday 17 November 2008, 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!
> 
> Take a look at the Cowan Iaudio line.   I have two of the units... 
> One is the
> size of a pack of cigarettes (remember those?) 

Now look!  It's only been 23 years and one week since I quit, and I 
don't need to be reminded of the evil things this soon in my 
reformation!!
-- 
derek