9 Oct
2025
9 Oct
'25
1:03 a.m.
Hello Josh,
Check out the rockbox project. I bought a HiFi walker digital media player and installed
rockbox on it and copying files over to it with Linux is a breeze and couldn't be
easier. I've used strawberry to copy things and nowadays I just manually copy files
with nautilus.
Rockbox supports lots of older devices too that you can snag for cheap as well if you dont
want to spend $100+ on a new device.
Let me know if you have any questions,
Brandon Hale
Oct 8, 2025 6:54:46 PM Josh Lawrence <joshlawrence(a)fastmail.com>om>:
Hello everyone,
I need some recommendations for a portable hardware audio player (mp3, ogg, flac) that
supports Linux, and is of reasonable quality. A quick search on Amazon pulls up
everything from $18 - $200, and I'm afraid to pull the trigger without some kind of
recommendation. My needs are simple, I just need to put tons of practice tracks on it and
plug it up to my keyboard via some kind of audio jack (1/8"). Power on, select a
track, play, experience musical disappointment, power off. :)
General brand recommendations are useful, pretty much any info is more than welcome - my
trusty mp3 player that was recommended by this list many years ago has vanished, so I must
replace it.
Thanks everyone!
Josh