FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
>
> On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
> > I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but
> > then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music
> > playing.
> 
> I did get the Clip and it's great except that it doesn't do playcounts. 
>   Which makes it about useless for podcast synchronization.
> 
> I asked Sansa what it would take to get this added to firmware (either 
> in the MTP database or via date touching) and got crickets in response.
> 
> Last I looked only the iPod and a handful of Creative devices supported 
> this, but I'd like to find something that did (or that I could hack to 
> do it).  I'm trying to avoid buying both Apple and Creative gear.

If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers,
microphones, and/or cameras, then you might like one of the devices
that I listed at the start of this thread.

If you've looked at that list and decided otherwise, I'd love to hear
your opinions about the down sides of each device.

The Pandora really looks like quite a nice little device to me
(or, rather..., like it will be, when it starts shipping?).
The Archos 5 also looks interesting (though it wasn't on my
initial list, just because I didn't know about it)--but
I have to dig a little deeper into how far one can actually go
with Archos' OpenEmbedded-based `developer firmware' if one
loads it in place of the pre-loaded Android OS.

I guess it looks like I'll probably end up giving in and buying
something from that list, myself, and that I'll just have to
figure-out something else for the places where I can't take
recording/transmitting/RFI devices.

I guess I'm the designated early adopter?

(yes--my comment about "music with RF in it..." was supposed to be a joke)

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