[Cialug] Pod Casting

[Kevin C. Smith]

That's what I'm thinking. Radio, podcast shows and books.
No uber desire to have music.

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 21:13 -0500, Bryan Baker wrote:
> 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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