kilimanjaro Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 Has any one ever used a Crweative Nomad zen mp3 player with Linux? I am thinking about getting a mp3 player and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 I found this Googling 'creative nomad zen' on Linux Google. http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/?section=article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 An alternative that's popular with Linux geeks is the DI Neuros - http://www.neurosaudio.com/ . It's impressively ugly and rather large, but it has excellent sound quality, comes in a range of capacities (and you can take it apart and put your own disk in it quite easily, so it can effectively be any capacity in which 2.5" disk drives are generally available) and a boatload of features. It can play MP3, WMA, Vorbis and .wav, and can record from a built-in or external mic to WAV or MP3 at a variety of bitrates. It can broadcast over FM and it has some basic DJ features. DI are a very clued-in company - their support is legendary, the forums for the device are very active and full of DI employees, and the player is as open as any MP3 player around - the firmware and the DI-written sync software have both been open sourced, and the hardware specs are freely available. There are several good third-party sync tools and a third-party firmware - see http://neurosdbm.sf.net/ and http://neuros-firmware.sf.net/ . And last but not least it's very cheap, $200 for a 20GB model. (That was half the price of an iPod, when I bought mine). If you can cope with the ugly factor and the size (it's not huge, but there's no room for anything else in your jean pockets), it's a fantastic player, and thanks to the heavy development work it only gets better with time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted November 25, 2004 Report Share Posted November 25, 2004 A bit OT: does anyone know of a compact, mainstream mp3 player with OGG Vorbis support? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 apart from the Neuros (I guess that's too big for you), there's the iRiver players - http://www.iriveramerica.com/ . They're a little pricey, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 I dont know why it hasnt been suggested, but there isnt much better than an ipod, they are a little pricey, but they are a solid, reliable, superbly *designed*, easy to use, functional mp3 player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 iphitus: darkelve asked for suggestions for a *Vorbis* player. ipod doesn't do Vorbis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 26, 2004 Report Share Posted November 26, 2004 oh but it probably could  http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/  you see, im never wrong :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted November 27, 2004 Report Share Posted November 27, 2004 it doesn't NOW, though. j'accuse! ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted November 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 The Neuros looks better than an Ipod, and it is cheaper to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 Thanks guys, will have a look at them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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