[Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu friendly Mp3/video Player‏

[Randall Wilson]

I have a Cowon iAudio X5, it's a little old, but great and they still 
sell it. For videos, I think the screen is too small.
http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/x5/
I have ogg and flac files on it. I'm pretty sure the videos are mp4.

What you're looking for is a device that act as "USB Mass Storage" or 
"USB Storage". With that, it just shows up as a hard drive. It looks 
like all of Cowon's products lists this, as well as "Linux Compatible".

The included software is often Windows only. Cowon uses JetAudio, a 
Windows program. When I plug in my X5 to Jaunty, it wants to start 
Rhythmbox, so that may not be a problem.
-Randy

Dave Crew wrote:
> I'm looking to buy a portable music/video player, but I want one that 
> is linux friendly.  What I'm looking for is something that can play 
> FLAC for music.  I would also like it to be able to play video formats 
> such as Xvid/Divx, MP4, and even ogg, but ogg is not a deal breaker.
>
> What I'm looking for is something I can load songs and videos onto 
> that I can take on the train and to the Gym.
>
> Does anyone has a portable media player that they are happy with.  I 
> have been Googleing for linux friendly mp3 players, but most of the 
> content has been rather old.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Crewsr3 <mailto:ubuntu-us-chicago at lists.ubuntu.com>