FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

[Jeffry Smith]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
<rozzin at geekspace.com> wrote:
> 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 have the Sansa Fuze - playes Ogg Vorbis just fine.  It's picky on
the movie format (non-free H.264/AAC with some weirdness), but someone
built an app (using libwine, unfortunately) that does the conversion
on Linux.