Nathan:
Here's Fry's list of mp3 players sorted by
price<
http://shop4.outpost.com/search?query_string=&sort=price&order=asc&order_by=p03a&cat=-59060&pType=pDisplay&from=0&to=24>.
Some of them are very inexpensive ($20-60) and simple (basically USB flash
drives with firmware + a battery case). If you want to try one, it's pretty
simple. If you have a plain USB flash drive, you can also tell Amarok to
treat that at as a generic music player to test out its media management. I
don't know if you've kept up with the later versions of Amarok, but in 1.4.5,
I think it was, they added integrated support for Magnatune within Amarok,
and I think Jamendo support is in there as well now. Amarok 2 will have (if
1.4.x doesn't) a whole framework for integrating music stores.
On 8/7/07, Nathan Aubrey <
nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 07 August 2007 06:13:12 pm you wrote:
> > Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > > Do any of you use iTunes? How do you deal with it on linux or what do
> you
> > > do?
> >
> > iTunes, the music sales download service and it's client software, does
> > not run directly on Linux. I have seen claims that it runs under wine.
> > I don't use it. I don't buy DRM music.
> >
> > (I buy CDs or download from services like http://magnatune.com)
> >
> > iTunes, the music file organizer part of the iTunes client software, is
> > easily replaced by many "as good" or better choices on your Linux OS. I
> > much prefer Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/). I use it with my iPod
> > Nano, my kids use it with their Creative USB stick players and my wife
> > uses it with her Creative Vision:M player.
> >
> > Aside: Yes I own an iPod. It was a gift nearly two years ago. It has
> > never had an iTunes song on it, only MP3s from my ripped CDs or from
> > non-DRM download sources. One of these days I'm going to put
> > http://www.rockbox.org firmware on it and have some real fun!
> >
> > Alan
>
> A friend of mine has two laptops and a desktop and I installed Ubuntu on
> one
> laptop and archlinux with KDE on the other laptop. He likes KDE so much he
> bought a new desktop to replace his windows XP box and then asked me about
> iTunes... He buys music through it, but I've showed him some other sites
> to
> buy music from and I love Amarok, so I showed him how to use that.
>
> But I don't have any kind of mp3 player, so I'm a little in the dark on
> that
> side. I would like to buy one someday, but I keep having kids.... so money
> isn't always around for my toys... ha ha
>
> nathan
>
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