Hi all, I've been looking for a portable MP3 player for a while. That is to say, one that plays .ogg files. I have about 750 CD's, of which about 200 are ripped in ogg and I'm not going back. :)
I have just got home with an iRiver iHP-120. Plays ogg out of the box. And also mp3, wma, wav, asf (as if) for the masochists amongst us. USB 2.0 (which seems very fast - I'm rsync'ing my music folder with the player and the speed files are going by at looks like about 3-5MB/sec). It can also record, has an FM radio, and looks like the nuts. It appears as a USB Mass Storage Device, hence is a doddle to copy to and from. The included software is for Windows, and is a jukebox manager (which anyone with well organised folders will find useless), and a tag database creator. That is kind of useful. It's much nicer to sort through songs by artist/album/title rather than relying on well-organised and named folders. As usual, some bright spark has prodcued a Linux version of the database creator - see http://www.marevalo.net/iRipDB/. I know this message is kind of off-topic, but I feel this item will appeal to any Debianista. http://www.iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=iHP-120 :) A (no affiliation etc) PS The command I use to sync my music is: rsync -v -r --size-only --include*/ --include*.m3u --include*.ogg --include*.mp3 --exclude* ~/music /usbkey where /usbkey is my mount point for the device. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
