[Cialug] Pod Casting

[David Champion]

We were just talking about the new iPod nano...

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/07/1846223&tid=141&tid=176&tid=3

You mentioned before that playing ogg would be nice. The ptunes app on 
my Treo 600 will play oggs. ;)

http://www.pocket-tunes.com/

-dc

Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> That's what I'm thinking. Radio, podcast shows and books.
> No uber desire to have music.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 21:13 -0500, Bryan Baker wrote:
> 
>>You could always get a creative player and get a free virus ;-)
>>
>>The Mini now has a 4GB and a 6GB version. The 4GB is $199 and the 6GB  
>>is $249.
>>For $299 you get a 20GB color screen model.
>>$129 is pretty nice, but it is for a "dead horse" disco'd model, and  
>>a refurb at that.
>>
>>iPods also, just kind of "show up" as Firewire or USB drives (though  
>>they store the music in "hidden" files - iirc, just dir's w/ "." in  
>>front. THere are also several good F/OSS iPod managers, and they play  
>>mp3, wav and unprotected m4a files just fine.
>>
>>Podcasting is really cool though. I also LOVE having audiobooks on a  
>>nice big HD based player that can hold many novels w/o really trying  
>>hard - much handier than CDs or tapes.
>>
>>On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:58 PM, David Champion wrote:
>>
>>>Kevin C. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've install iPodder and have gotten into this pod casting.
>>>>Thanks for the head up on this. I've never thought of getting an  
>>>>mp3 player until now. I'm not that much into music, but this is  
>>>>pretty cool.
>>>>Any suggestions for a Linux friendly mp3 player. It would be nice  
>>>>if it also played ogg vorbis files, and act as a USB drive as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I really like my Rio Carbon. It's a 5gb HD player. It doesn't  
>>>support OGG, but it is otherwise linux (and any os) friendly. You  
>>>just plug it in to a USB port, and it shows up as a removable HD.  
>>>You can use musicmatch or iTunes with it, but I prefer just copying  
>>>files to it.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, Rio was just killed by it's parent company (Denon?)  
>>>last week. But you might be able to find them on clearance now. The  
>>>were selling for well under $200 before (refirbs are as low as  
>>>$129), which is a lot better than an iPod mini, with an extra 1gb  
>>>of disk space.
>>>
>>>-dc