[linux-audio-user] Linux-friendly portable music player?

[Peter Finnegan]

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:22 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 16:16 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > If I was shopping again today, I don't know what I'd buy.  AFAICT,
> > iriver has no replacement model with the same features :-( I *need* the
> > external mic input, and I now have so many OGGs that it'd be annoying to
> > switch to anything that doesn't play them.  
> 
> iaudio ... they do almost everything right. nitpicks: record to MP3
> format when WAV or OGG should be an option. we have an X5 and a smaller
> 2GB flash player.
> 

I second the iaudio (also known as jetaudio).  My iaudio U2 just
accidentally went through the wash and worked like a champ afterword
(other than needing a battery charge).  Firmware upgrades are free, but
have to be done from windows, unless someone has figured out a way to do
it from linux.