Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> wrote:
> I've returned the Zen to Amazon and ordered an iPod. Thanks to
> everyone who tried to help. It may sound silly, but after spending
> much of the day on this I'm just not up to the hassle.
Sorry to hear about that. I hope the ipod works better. For what it is
worth, and if you are looking for an inexpensive mp3 player that "just
works" in Linux check out the M620 from Ivo Sound. I got it at Fry's
here locally (Campbell CA) and for $40 (well that's $10 off) it's a
very versatile mp3 player that plays AMV format video as well, and
just mounts as a drive under Linux so I can just use drag & drop to
transfer files over. It's also 4GB. For $40, it's not a bad deal,
compared to what just 1gb mp3 players were a scant few years ago.
A few drawbacks - the screen is kind of smallish for video, but the
files are still watchable on the screen, and amv video can be
transcoded from avi's with ffmpeg - i've done it a few times. I'm not
sure if the player is at fault, but folders (music albums) when
transferred over to the device, the songs are usually out of order.
Sometimes that's not a big deal, and other times it is (like trying to
listen to the Who's Tommy in "shuffle play" mode - that's just not
right! :)
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