RandomPeon's Journal: MP3 player

I'm going to buy an MP3 player. Previous attempts at this have been less than successful. I used to have one of the first D-Link MP3 players, it worked well, held about 8MB of music and was eventually dropped by someone else. Hardly amazing by today's standards, but it worked while it lasted. I bought an RCA Lyra to replace it. Worst piece of crap ever. The link software was written by an illiterate monkey and the thing died a few days after the warranty expired.

So, anyway, I'm going to buy another MP3 player. It needs to survive being worn while running, so disk-based players are out. Ogg and Linux support would be nice.

Any suggestions?

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iPod mini

[BWJones]

I run with an iPod mini and have no problems. (Although my full size iPod does have problems when I run). If you absolutely do not want a hard drive based mechanism, you might want to wait a couple of months for a flash based iPod to be announced on January 10th (I have heard).

I have an iRiver IGP-100

[Organized Konfusion]

It supports OGG, WMA and MP3.
Mounts on Linux as a /dev/sd?? using the USB-Mass storage driver.
Holds 1.5 gig and stupidly cheap.

http://www.everythingusb.com/hardware/index/iRiver _iGP-100.htm [everythingusb.com]

iPod Mini

[arb]

Or even a full-grown iPod. They have about a 20 minute buffer, so skipping while running should be an issue.

Comments from people who run with their iPods... [macrumors.com]

Revies of iSport - an iPod holder specifically designed for playing sports/running/etc. [applematters.com]

And straight from Apple themselves... [apple.com]

This is what you want:

[John Harrison]

http://www.bananapc.com/promo/general/0422_phison/ 0422_phison.htm

It is the 512MB Phison mp3 player/usb memory key. I have one. It works great. No screen, no fancy navigation, no fancy batteries. Just pop in a AAA and go. It works with Linux but not with ogg.