On 4 Oct 2014, at 16:13, Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
The Sandisk Sansa family is quite good[1]. I personally use the Sansa
Clip+, but have used the old Fuze in the past. While they work out of
the box, many of them support the free alternative firmware Rockbox
for extra goodnessp[2].
Seconded.
Avoid the fuze+ or the clip sport, but the fuze (v2), clip+ and clip zip are excellent players and are fully usable from debian. If you get a large capacity microsd card, put a fat32 file system on it to use with the sansas. I use a 64G but I believe 128G are compatible too.