Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

[David Gerard]

Huw Wynn-Jones (huwwynnjones at neuf.fr) [041201 05:32]:

> I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't 
> seem to get clear info from the various shop sites.
> Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy 
> anyone I want and then transfer files across as if it were usb 
> storage or do these players have special transfer software? I've seen 
> that most of the players only come with windows software, so I don't 
> want to be stuck with a player that won't talk to my os.


As I understand it (I welcome correction!), iRiver are the only ones whose
player does Ogg out the box. Unfortunately, it does not act as a umass
device and so requires the funky Windows drivers. See review (disclaimer,
I'm an editor on the site):
http://rocknerd.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/28/0621219&mode=nested


- d.