Cheapo MP3 Player
Today I ordered what is almost the cheapest MP3 player I could find, and is certainly the cheapest I could find which wouldn't fall off when jogging (as much as I love my black iPod Classic, it's not really suitable for jogging). I really hope that it reads MP3 files from a FAT partition and uses USB Storage...
NP: Mishaps Happening, Quantic
Posted by dave at Tue Feb 19 21:15:39 2008:
It's worth mentioning that it's a clone of the iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen as that means a) it doesn't look like ass (in the parlance of our times), b) has that neat clippy feature and c) has no screen, two of which make me want one too, if only for the pirate-cool retro rip-off chic factor.
If you feel like sharing I'd be interested to hear how secure the clip is, how the music loading experience is with Linux, what you think of the build quality and if it secretly supports ogg.
Posted by Ross at Tue Feb 19 21:24:49 2008:
If you feel like sharing I'd be interested to hear how secure the clip is, how the music loading experience is with Linux, what you think of the build quality and if it secretly supports ogg.
It only looks a bit like arse, the buttons are a little strange. I'm guessing it appears as USB Storage and you just drop files on it, and I'd put money on it not supporting Ogg. We shall find out soon...
Posted by Wouter at Tue Feb 19 22:31:12 2008:
Posted by Martijn Vermaat at Tue Feb 19 23:57:06 2008:
It looks very much like the one I bought recently (at Aldi's, in The Netherlands).
Before it did anything at all I had to update the firmware (using a Windows application, but it worked from a VMWare Player machine). It was formatted as FAT16, but the firmware tool defaults to reformatting as FAT32.
Ogg does not seem to be supported and it is a USB mass storage device. Oh, and there's no shuffle mode.
So it does pretty much what I expected.
Posted by Alan at Wed Feb 20 02:53:41 2008:
Before it did anything at all I had to update the firmware (using a Windows application, but it worked from a VMWare Player machine). It was formatted as FAT16, but the firmware tool defaults to reformatting as FAT32.
Ogg does not seem to be supported and it is a USB mass storage device. Oh, and there's no shuffle mode.
So it does pretty much what I expected.
I'm reasonably happy with the Zen stone from Creative but it doesn't come with a clip, not that I've ever managed to drop it but that seemed to be important to you and your choice might be marginally cheaper.
Posted by Dan at Sun Feb 24 13:45:52 2008:
