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my 7th media player in route

Thursday, 29. January 2009, 20:22:17

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I've owned the Compaq PA-1 [ about 10 years ago! ], Olympus MR100, meizu m6, Cowon X5, Cowon U3, Sansa E250r and Touch 2G.

The Cowon and Apple devices have been wonderful for specific Niches. The X5 for in long road trips, the Touch 2G for apps and lossless audio and the U3 for walking or jogging listening to podcasts.

I tried the beautiful Nokia E51 with Grado headphones and a A2DP receiver for a while but now that I'm carrying an E71 with 8GB microSDHC it seems redundant.

I walk an hour almost every night with the U3 in had but now it has write errors. Time for another player.

The iriver E100.

Honestly I just wanted a smaller U3 with higher flash capacity to wear around my neck but that market seems to be abandoned even by aigo, which seemed incredible popular in China [ as a fashion accessory ] a few years back but cowon has let me down and the iriver volcano does not ship in 8GB capacity.

My hope is to put a dozen lossless albums on the internal 8GB flash and install an 8GB microSDHC for my podcasts so do not burn out the flash.

I ordered the E100 from J&R and the 8GB microSDHC from meritline.

This sound like fun!

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Rockbox experiences

Saturday, 9. August 2008, 23:31:08

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I've tried two devices, the Cowon X5 and the Sansa E250r.

The X5 was simply a matter of running rbutilqt then connect the AC power to upgrade the firmware.

Sansa has been a total nightmare. I should have given up soon as the Rockbox Utility bombed.

I had to manually unlock the firmware with e200rpatcher

I had to juggle the old and new firmware and manually install .rockbox

At this point rockbox works well and looks good but refuses to index the 4GB microSDHC we installed into the unit. It seems to play the files fine though.

btw - no file manager to rm the bad firmware is annoying

The one issue now is that when I connect a USB cable and it attempts to boot the old firmware it crashes and get stuck in a reboot cycle. Of coarse the original rubbish sansa firmware wont read the 4GB microSDHC which is why I installed rockbox in the first place.

Now I'm stuck with a device that will not index the 4GB card or write to the 4GB card. A total waste of time.

If I boot the device with the select key held and the lock on it boots to a 3rd mode where I cannot read the device in MASS storage or MTP. I actually wasted a lot of time trying to get MTP to work in this third mode with someone's ubuntu 8.04 box.

My advice? Just use a modern phone and forget portable media players all together.

S60 supports flac/ogg playback.

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