Digital Audio Players for Linux?

[David Hummel]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:35:49PM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote:
> 
> Mention was made the other night of openness/freeness of brands of
> digital audio players. Which current models are Linux-friendly, in
> terms of being able to load podcasts and tracks from a linux system?
> Act as a USB drive?

I'd probably go with one of these iAudio players:

 http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u3/  [2gb flash]
 http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/m5/  [20gb hd]

They support Ogg and FLAC, and are USB mass storage devices.  Linux is
specifically mentioned in the product information.

-David