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I’ve been thinking about upgrading my music player for ages – I had a Rio Karma, which I liked because it natively played OGG format and was usable under Linux. However it’s pretty big compared to today’s players. I then bought an iPod Nano, only because I knew that I could replace the firmware with Rockbox, which gave it the ability to work with Linux and play OGGs. But there were too many niggling problems – the major one for me is no ability to upgrade the memory.<\/p>\n
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Now I’ve found the ideal replacement. The Cowon D2 – a little more expensive than a new iPod Nano, but, apart from playing OGG natively, it also plays video, has DAB and FM radio, plays flash games, shows photo, records from radio or microphone, has a text reader, has a touch screen, and best of all, it takes SDHC cards. Which means it won’t ever run out of space. Also it behaves just like a mass storage device, which means you can load it up from a Mac or a Linux box or even Windows without needing to load any proprietary software. Oh, and the battery lasts for 52 hours if you are playing music.<\/p>\n
The picture above doesn’t give you an indication of size, but it’s about 8×5.5cm – i.e. small.\u00a0 And light.<\/p>\n
Well recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been thinking about upgrading my music player for ages – I had a Rio Karma, which I liked because it natively played OGG format and was usable under Linux. However it’s pretty big compared to today’s players. I then bought an iPod Nano, only because I knew that I could replace the firmware with … <\/p>\n