[ale] OT: Portable media players

[skotchman at gmail.com (Scott Castaline)]

  On 10/21/2010 01:21 AM, Raylynn Knight wrote:
> I believe rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) supports the Fuze and may
> allow you to update using Linux.  I had a Sandisk E240 that I ran
> rockbox on until I was gifted a iPod Classic (80GB) which
> unfortunately isn't supported by rockbox, but does have a lot more
> storage than the E240 (4GB).  The rockbox firmware even supported
> micro-SDHC cards up to 8 GB when the stock firmware supported a max 2
> GB microSD.
>
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Picked up a SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ 8GB from BestBuy this morning. Fully
>> charged battery and loaded some of my FLAC files onto it. Sounds pretty
>> good too. Still need some getting used to the touch pad and even though
>> it's a small display it is still readable and pictures look nice as
>> well, so now I can really bore everyone with pics of the grandkids. I
>> had 2 1GB micro SD cards so I quickly put them to use. I would like to
>> get a case for it, the one they had at BestBuy was over $30.00, so I
>> figure I'll keep looking. The only drawback is that in order to update
>> the software you need M$ Window$, otherwise it works fine with Linux.
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Just checked it out, unfortunately it doesn't look like it supports my 
version yet. But looks like it's worth kepping an eye on it. Thanks for 
the info