Also here's a news flash about the neuros:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/01/neuros_open_source/


and the  archos - which has an open source project for better firmware:
http://rockbox.haxx.se/

I think you can get a archos pretty cheap these days... like $100 or so...

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 08:16:00 -0500, Paul Cutler <silwenae at silwenae.com> wrote:
> You might want to look into iRiver.  I have one of their hard drive
> products which works great in Linux.  And their Ogg support is one of
> the best.
> 
> As far as their flash based players, there is a Sourceforge project for
> iRiver flash players in beta - http://ifp-driver.sourceforge.net/ .
> Googling around I saw various threads for Debian and Gentoo getting
> their flash players to work, so help should be available.
> 
> --paul
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 01:22, Ian Stoner wrote:
> > I would like to get an 128 or 256 MB mp3 player to take along while
> > running or engaging in other forms of monotonous physical activity.  It
> > has to support GNU/Linux, which, as I understand it, means it has to
> > function as a USB mass-storage device.  It has to be reasonably durable.
> >  I'd prefer that it plays ogg vorbis in addition to mp3.
> >
> > I've been looking at the Creative Nomad/Muvo, which definitely meet the
> > first criterion, dunno about the second, and they fail the third.  Does
> > anyone have experience with the Nomads?  Are there players that people
> > like better?
> 
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