The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 28, 2005 18:07 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

>> In the absence of such a feature, it becomes necessary to keep music around in multiple formats

although not integrated (as far as i know) into the graphical players, gnupod allows casting ogg -> mp3 upon write to the device. not sure about flac.

gnupod is an incredibly useful package, easy to integrate into scripts as well.

i see more players able to handle ogg, hopefully this trend will pressure apple into one day supporting it directly, although given their business model with itunes, i'm not holding my breath.

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 28, 2005 19:42 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

I gotta put a little plug in here for my own little device: a Samsung YP-MT6. It's a 1GB Flash player that supports WAV, MP3, WMA (including, unfortunately, the DRM'd variety), and, !! OGG !! Gloria in excelsis! :-) It also has an FM tuner (which you can record from--to 128kb MP3), voice recording with a built-in mic and a line input, and it uses AA batteries, which I love because I don't have to worry about the battery being non-replaceable and dying after a few months (like certain devices discussed above in this thread...) It has USB-2.0 support, acts as a USB mass storage device (you can store non-music files on it too--it just ignores things it doesn't understand) and generally just works. The one thing I have found a little annoying is that the firmware requires a Windows utility to upgrade, and there's a few little annoyances with the firmware it shipped with, like the sound preferences get wiped occasionally when I delete sound files to replace with others, but that's no big deal to me.

Sorry for the commercial, but I just love this little device and I had to speak up for the non-iPod devices (and the OGG support!) Samsung really did good by me with this product.

The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 28, 2005 19:48 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

One other thing--the YP-MT6 is *small*--60x25x25mm, and the headphones that come with it are quite nice for being earbuds. OK, end of commercial, I promise. :-)

The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

Posted Nov 28, 2005 22:29 UTC (Mon) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

I got one of those for my wife, and was really surprised at how far the whole Linux experience has come.

We took it out of the box, and plugged it in, and it just showed up on her desktop as a USB drive (no surprise, but it's neat to see) that she could open and drag stuff into. When she puts a CD into the drive, it asks if she'd like to make ogg files from it, which are then easy to just drag over to the Samsung.