[Cialug] Pod Casting

[Bryan Baker]

You could always get a creative player and get a free virus ;-)

The Mini now has a 4GB and a 6GB version. The 4GB is $199 and the 6GB  
is $249.
For $299 you get a 20GB color screen model.
$129 is pretty nice, but it is for a "dead horse" disco'd model, and  
a refurb at that.

iPods also, just kind of "show up" as Firewire or USB drives (though  
they store the music in "hidden" files - iirc, just dir's w/ "." in  
front. THere are also several good F/OSS iPod managers, and they play  
mp3, wav and unprotected m4a files just fine.

Podcasting is really cool though. I also LOVE having audiobooks on a  
nice big HD based player that can hold many novels w/o really trying  
hard - much handier than CDs or tapes.

On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:58 PM, David Champion wrote:
> Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>
>> I've install iPodder and have gotten into this pod casting.
>> Thanks for the head up on this. I've never thought of getting an  
>> mp3 player until now. I'm not that much into music, but this is  
>> pretty cool.
>> Any suggestions for a Linux friendly mp3 player. It would be nice  
>> if it also played ogg vorbis files, and act as a USB drive as well.
>>
>
> I really like my Rio Carbon. It's a 5gb HD player. It doesn't  
> support OGG, but it is otherwise linux (and any os) friendly. You  
> just plug it in to a USB port, and it shows up as a removable HD.  
> You can use musicmatch or iTunes with it, but I prefer just copying  
> files to it.
>
> Unfortunately, Rio was just killed by it's parent company (Denon?)  
> last week. But you might be able to find them on clearance now. The  
> were selling for well under $200 before (refirbs are as low as  
> $129), which is a lot better than an iPod mini, with an extra 1gb  
> of disk space.
>
> -dc
>
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