Re: portable mp3 player

No.  ipods don't support OGGs natively. 

There is however a couple opensource firmwares that you can throw on an ipod as well as other devices to get different features, such as ogg support.
I run rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) on my ipod and it works fairly well.  It also turns it into a dumb storage device.  I just copy my
music to a folder like I'm using a flash drive and the player finds it.  You don't have to use gtkpod or something else to write back all
the crazy metadata mess that the ipod normally look  fors and it doesn't put the files in obscure folders with bewildering names either.
Only downfall I have found is rockbox seems to slaughter my battery life.

Off the top of my head, the only two players that I can remember that *may* natively play OGGs are the Sansa's and the iRivers. 
Looks like http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers has a list. 

Good luck in your hunt

Dustin Minnich
Nicholas IT
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Robert G. Brown wrote:

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Brian Johnson wrote:

I've had great success with my 20G iPod and gtkpod and rhythmbox.....

OK, you're the one to ask, then.  Does the iPod manage oggs yet?  Well
over 90% of my music is ogg vorbis.  My kids have iPods, and repurchase
music we already (legally) own because I haven't had the time or energy
or an iPod of my own to mess with the compatibility issue.  If iPods
can play oggs transparently, I'd seriously consider getting one; until
then, not.  Not for religious reasons, for practical ones.  Ogg tends to
be a better format (for one thing) and once you rip into it with
unencumbered tools, you lose resolution popping from ogg to mp3 or vice
versa.

   rgb

Brian

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Stuart Endo-Streeter
stuart.endostreeter@... wrote:
      Fellow linux users,

      Anyone know a portable mp3 player that works with windows and
      linux without requiring hacking?  I don't mind if I have to
      manually mount it on linux, but the players I've seen require
      hacks or reformatting tricks or firmware updates, or have
      trouble playing files transferred from one OS or the other
      depending on how the drive has been (re)formatted.  I'm just
      looking for something simple, no need for radio, video, or the
      like.


      Thanks for any suggestions,
      Stuart Endo-Streeter








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