iPod Replacement

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#1

I don’t know if this is the place to ask.
I am looking for an economical replacement for my iPod nano 5 gen. I’m fed up with iTunes causing all sorts of problems (or is it the iPod playing up?)
The more formats that it plays the better and something easy to use.
Anyone got any suggestions?
All I’ll have to do then is find a good source of legal online music. Come on Amazon & Google, let me buy in Australia!

Thanks.

#2

Hi
Have you tried the latest gtkpod with it? Should just be able to upload
files to it?

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#3

I have tried gtkpod but for some reason it cant see the m4a files from iTunes. I have installed a package (can’t remember what it was called) that should give it the capability to work with apples music format.

#4

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:16:02 +0000, asarge wrote:

> I don’t know if this is the place to ask.
> I am looking for an economical replacement for my iPod nano 5 gen. I’m
> fed up with iTunes causing all sorts of problems (or is it the iPod
> playing up?)
> The more formats that it plays the better and something easy to use.
> Anyone got any suggestions?

You could take your iPod nano and install Rockbox on it. :slight_smile:

Jim

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#5

My Son went down the ‘i’ route
Common sense prevailed and he now uses android phone (which seems to double as a music player too)

I believe ‘Archos’ make Linux friendly devices

#6

Thanks for that. I’ll look at some Archos items. I have been thinking of getting a cheap android phone to use as a music player.
I just checked out Rockbox, but it looks like it won’t work on the 5th gen nano :frowning: That’s a shame, I would have loved to show that to some of my ifriends.

#7

I recently got a SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 4 GB MP3 Player for my wife. She loves it and it plays nice with Linux. I stay away from iStuff like the plague.

PS: For myself, I have an N900. Awesome equalized sound with “SomePlayer”, and with the built-in FM Transmitter (with boosted frequencies) it has to be the best music player device in existence.