[NTLUG:Discuss] MP3 Players for my wife...

[terry]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Alvin Goats <agoats at compuserve.com> wrote:
> Ya'll,
>
> The spousal unit <duck, crack, smash>  wants an mp3 player that is
> compatable with Kubuntu and will allow her to easily move files, sync
> files and get/purchase music from the web. She fancies the Sansa View
> MP3 player.
>
> Of course, everything talks about M$, but.... we know how that goes.
> Natively, the little beast supports:
> mpeg4
> wmv
> H.264
> wma
> wav
> non-DRM AAC
> and of course, mp3
>
> She likes the music subscriptions of Yahoo! Music, Rhapsody To Go,
> Napster, eMusic and video services of Amazon Unboxed, MovieLink and Guba.
>
> If the software to manipulate files and services is similar to iTunes,
> that would be great!
>
> ALTERNATELY, what mp3 players do you recommend and what interface
> software for it?

To me, the best mp3 player is one that does not use any interface
software at all.  And one that is simple and easy to use, (and does
not cost an arm and a leg. I have / use the SanDisk Sansa Express with
2G MicroSD which gives me a total of 3G. I really like it because it
is simple and easy to use and it has built in USB plug, (so you just
plug the device into a USB port to charge or dump more mp3s on).  But,
I don't know about the other formats, I only use mp3 and I mostly just
rip CDs and and create my own.  I rip them and just dump them on the
device and that's pretty much it.

If you want something fancier, see: http://go.shopsansa.com/default.aspx

>
> At this time, her only reason to drop back to Windoze is to use iTunes,
> otherwise she is strictly Kubuntu (it was quick and easy to convert her
> to Kubuntu, Slackware was too much for her).
>
> Alvin
>

I understand that iTunes has been up and running on Linux for a while
now, but I don't know for sure.  Someone else please let us know about
that....


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