Posted by Haggard on 12/03/06 20:51

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:51:05 GMT, Al Smith <invalid@address.com>
wrote:

>I'm thinking about getting my first MP3 player, but I'm going to
>stay away from Apple, just because of all the DRM bullshit. Even
>worse is the ridiculous Microsoft Zune. I want a cheap player that
>will let me just plug it in to a USB port, and have it recognized
>automatically as another drive, do that I can drag and drop
>whatever I want onto its memory chip.

FWIW I was also searching for a no BS MP3 Player. I eventually bought
the Samsung YP-C1 (the 1GB model):

http://www.pcmag-mideast.com/reviews/review.php?id=EEuZZyyElVyPxVMVkZ

Lots of other reviews out there.

It comes with the USB drivers for W98 where it's recognized as a
standard USB thumb drive. It's atuomatically recognized as such in
Suse 10.0 so It should be the same for W2K, ME and XP.

Note that I don't use W2K or XP so I can't comment on that. I also
haven't used an Apple player so I can't comment on that. My
requirements were:

-small
-uses a standard battery rather than built-in rechargeable. There's
nothing worse than the battery dying halfway between here and there.
-Preferably the battery was a AA instead of AAA for longer playtime.
-Standard USB drive interface
-Handles OGG format. (I haven;t swithced over but wanted the option)

Another feature it has (which I haven't needed or tried) is a plug on
the USB cable so can encode right to MP3 from an external player.

It's biggest minus as far as I can see is that the user interface
isn't as clear as the Apple products. Again, I've never used one so I
can't really comment on that.

HTH
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