I'm looking for a portable music player obeying to these 4 criteria:
- runs on AA or AAA batteries;
- has FM radio;
- costs less than 100$CAN for 2G of memory;
- plays Ogg-Vorbis.
While the first three criteria aren't so difficult, the fourth makes my search almost impossible to complete. What is it with this stupid industry standardizing on lesser technology and pushing everybody in the mold of (arguably falsified) majority?
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
stupid power of majority
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I've got a Samsung YP-6 which runs on one AA (40 hours!), plays OGG, and has a radio. It's only 512MB, but I bought it over 2 years ago, so I imagine things have progressed there.
The iRiver T60 might be what you're looking for. See this review. Links to a site to buy from are at the bottom.
Leo: Yes, but Samsung somehow devolved since and the YP-s are no more available. It's Samsung that I wanted to buy. I even almost decided for a K3, but its touch sensitive interface turned me down.
Maybe a Cowon product then... they claim to be GNU/Linux compliant and many Linux users I know are very happy with this brand...
Kenshin is right - Cowon/iAudio should be the first choice. The second choice should be iRiver, but be careful because some devices need a firmware update to work in UMS mode instead of MTP.
However, I'm not aware of a player which fits to your needs from these companies. And I seriously doubt that you will find such a player for below 100$CAN - there are MP3 players out there, but only the higher quality ones do support Ogg Vorbis.
Try Samsung Yp-Z5, they do Ogg Vorbis, 40h of playback, FM Radio, photos, it ships with up to 4gb memory.
I paid mine 100€ (doont know what this makes in $CAn)
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