[ale] OT: Portable media players

[Raylynn Knight]

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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