into electronic streams flowing thru the cosmos On Wednesday 08 November 2006 9:13 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:31, steve reilly wrote:
Hi,
my mp3 player was stolen a couple days ago, an rca lyra , have started looking for a replacement, maybe an upgrade to another brand/style. The rca worked nice with suse as it can be mounted as a usb mass storage device. ( i like to drag and drop) mainly going to be used for podcasts, a little music, 1 gig should do fine. any one on the list have a recommendation, something that works good for them?
I've been using the Samsung YP-U1 (1GB) which does great and also plays ogg files. They don't make it anymore in that model but if you don't need ogg, the newer models would be fine. I just bought a YP-U1 reconditioned off ebay for about 40% of the original price.
Hmmm, my husband uses that Samsung very happily.. I wanted more room and got a Cowan iaudio x5 for roughly $40 more than I paid for his Samsung.. the iaudio has direct ( usb2) interface w/ the computer and you can drag n drop your assorted audio files, flac , mp3, ogg etc. to teh music directory on the iaudio it will then see and play them very happily. It has a capacity of 20GB .. if you want you can take text files and jpegs and use the little screen to read or look at pictures. It has about 14hr battery life on a full charge.. so I can get just about anywhere on a plane w/o going completely spare. I suspect you could fine an ebay or refurb of it in the usual locations.. too oh yeah it supposedly shows mpegs, but I haven't got it to recognize those .. but even if I did, I don't think I'd waste the space to watch something on a 2 inch screen... -- j See ya Space Cowboy