[Novalug] portable MP3 players

John Yodsnukis yodsnukis@dbbd.net
Mon Sep 20 11:27:34 EDT 2010


I've been happy with an older model of a Sandisk Sansa player:

http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=14243

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Nick Danger <nick@hackermonkey.com> wrote:
>
> I have a iAudio X5. It worked great but the battery is gone, again. I've
> already replaced it once so its an old unit. Before that I had a Neuros,
> the big brick like thing. That was a great MP3 player before the iPod.
> Good for car listening anyway! The only problem I had with the X5 was
> bad battery life. Compared to the new players it was rather pitiful at
> maybe 2+ hours. Even new. This battery now maybe gives me 45 minutes.
> Enough to cut the lawn but then I get the "low battery shutdown" warnings.
>
> I'm going to visit my Mom in October with my sister and niece. I would
> like a portable player to listen to on the plane.
>
> So before I try to find a battery for the X5 and replace it, again,
> anyone have recommendations on a Linux friendly portable mp3 player? The
> iAudio runs rockbox, I like the idea of a filesystem I just dump stuff
> to rather then have to select music to sync. I do not use or have used
> iTunes, I usually use VLC to play music on my PC. I know the little
> iPods can run Rockbox now, so that might be my route but I thought I'd
> see what the suggestions were here first. Large storage please.
>
> Nick
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