[KLUG Members] MP3 Player?

[Mike Williams]

I'm a big fan of my Sonicblue (formerly S3, formerly Diamond Multimedia, 
etc, etc) Rio Karma.  It's a 20 gig HD-based player similar in size to 
the ipod, but a little cheaper and with a better control system.  I 
don't think there's a Linux driver to sync it with USB, but the docking 
station has an Ethernet port.  When docked, the Karma will get a DHCP 
address and serve a java version of its management software from a mini 
web server.  I've fired it up on my SuSE 9.2 box and it seems to work 
fine.  There are some rather annoying design decisions (doesn't work as 
a USB hard drive, makes a distinction between "files" and "music"), and 
100 Mb Ethernet is slower than USB, but it's still a great little box.

> Subject:
> [KLUG Members] MP3 Player?
> From:
> Bruce Smith <bruce at armintl.com>
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>My wife wants a MP3 player for xmas.  (yeah, I'm late  :) 
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>Not a software program, but one of those little boxes that clip to a
>belt, has a set of headphones attached, and plays MP3's.
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>Since I don't have any Windows boxes (and no plans for one), I need a
>player that is Linux compatible.  Nothing fancy, I only need to plug the
>player into a USB port and have it function like a USB flash drive so I
>can copy MP3 files to/from the player.
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>The main feature I'd like on the player is for it to remember where it
>was when it's turned off and have it resume at the same place next time.
>And playing the files in the order I copied them to the player would be
>nice too.  (This device is mainly for audio books, not music.)
>
>Suggestions for a good Linux compatible MP3 player?
>
> - BS
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