Re: [suse-amd64] Best MP3 Player?

On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

jerry bookter writes:

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Hi Folks--

I went out today and bought a Creative Nomad Zen Xtra, which turned out to be a mistake. Naturally, it comes with a bloated proprietery Windows application, which managed to entirely nuke VMware with repeated BSODs until finally I had to restore the VM files from backup.

Gnomad didn't seem to like 64 bits and gave numerous errors during compile so no joy there either. I'm taking the thing back tomorrow.

Been there (with a Zen Micro).

It's not really a problem with 64 bits. You could fairly easily compile it as a 32bit application. The problem is that whereas you can get RPMs for Fedora, no such thing exists for SuSE, so you need to compile not just the gnomad2 stuff but also the underlying libnjb *and* make sure that you have a bunch of other libraries (in 32 bits?), which are packaged differently between SuSE and Fedora. I gave up after a while and just used my laptop for the transer, since it was already running FC3, but, given sufficient stubbornness, there's probably nothing impossible about it.

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What I'd like ideally, is something that I could simply plug into the USB port and have it recognized as just any other external drive. Is there anyone here with an MP3 player they're happy with, that's supported under SuSE 9.2/64?

I think most of the RAM-based ones work like memory sticks. The problem is that they tend not to have the navigation facilities that you have on the typical harddisk based ones. I suspect that trying to get both is a bit of a contradiction in terms since you need a more elaborate database than a plain file system to support e.g. per-album or per-artist displays.

iPOD Shuffle or iPod @ Firewire works great with SuSE 9.2, I will try the Shuffle on my 64 bit and re-reply...