I think that the creative labs MP3 player called Nomad plays a variety of formats. I don't know about its Linux connectivity. Glenn. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:27 AM Subject: RE: off topic - mp3 players not software They are really nice these days actually. I haven't played around with one in depth to figure out how accessible they are, but I was fooling around with a friend's. his was about the length of my finger and about as thick, the battery pack was roughly the same length and thickness. In short the things are the embodyment of the definition of tiny. It had a rocker switch to switch tracks, a on off play pause switch...and up down volume buttons. As for formats, I believe he said it supports a different variety of formats, including mp3, wav, wma, and more. The unit I was playing with could hold 256 megs and connected via USB as they all do these days. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of showell at lrxms.net Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:37 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: off topic - mp3 players not software Folks, I have been toying with the idea that I would like to get myself a mp3 player. Here are a few questions. FIrst I don't recall there being a means to communicate with a mp3 player other than I thik the Rio? In any case I really would prefer to not be limited to the mp3 format. So is there a hardware-based players that support the vorbis/ogg format as well as mp3? If so how does the unit communicate with Linux. I found a player that apparently could support other formats, but from what I gather does not at this time and so was not to willing to buy the thing unless I knew for sure it could communicate with a LInux box and could and will support other formats. I found the thing on Computer Geeks site, http://www.computergeeks.com and now can't recall its exact name. If you search you'll find that unit if your interested. tia Scott _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
