Recommendation -- iPod?

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 09:01 +0000, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> My current MP3 player has gone to the great tech yard in the sky.  I'm 
> thinking of joining the rest of the world [apparently] and getting an 
> iPod.

After watching my brothers (admittedly amusing) issues with his ipod &
now ipod touch, I voted to flip Apple the bird, and go elsewhere.

> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.  My concern is whether, or how well, the two 
> functions of charging the device and managing the music work on Ubuntu.  
> It seems charging should be no problem -- a USB port is a USB port -- but 
> transferring songs from the hard to disk to the iPod, building and 
> managing playlists are important.

In my experience iPods aren't worth the trouble they cause. but...i feel
that way about a lot of things anymore...

My personal recommendation is to check out Cowon mp3 players. I just got
a Cowon S9 32GB mp3 player
(http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/cowon/s9/), and I'm loving it so
far. You can add/remove music/videos/pics as though it was a flash
drive, or through a management program (i.e. using rhythmbox), sound
quality is awesome, natively supports ogg and flac formats, looks nice,
and feels solid(even though it's mostly plastic). I've also heard people
mention Creative Zen players as a nice alternatives, and I seriously
thought about getting one, but i wanted the ogg & flac support... which
the Creative players didnt appear to have.

+.02

-- 
Andrew
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