Recommendation -- iPod?

[Mohamad Faizul]

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Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
hello,
my personal mp3 player is creative zen micro 6gb.
i use kzenplayer and gnomad2 to handle my playlist and mp3 files
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