Recommendation -- iPod?

[Karl F. Larsen]

davem at mich.com wrote:
> ------- Original Message -------
> From    : Andrew Farris[mailto:flyindragon1 at aol.com]
> Sent    : 8/12/2009 2:36:06 PM
> To      : ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc      : 
> Subject : RE: Re: Recommendation -- iPod?
>
>  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
>
> 	Since this unit is a few years old, I have one that cost less than $50.00 at Wal Mart. It has a 2 GB memory within and I have it full of classical music. It says RCA on the front and made in China on the back. I charge the battery and can add or delete music or MP2 short movies at will because a panel comes up showing you everything.
I like it a lot :-D

73 karl