Topic: Compact Flash card as portable Audio Player?

[musicsherlock]

Any programs out there to convert a Flash Memory card into a portable Audio Player of sorts?

I would love to have program one could install on a flash card and use that program to read mp3, .wav, flac, etc. as a portable player...shuffle, playlists, tags, etc.

[Nick's Picks]

sandisk makes an mp3 player that you can just pop cards into

[pfife]

you could use a palm pilot...

[gunk]

Any programs out there to convert a Flash Memory card into a portable Audio Player of sorts?

I would love to have program one could install on a flash card and use that program to read mp3, .wav, flac, etc. as a portable player...shuffle, playlists, tags, etc.

The extra stuff needed is way too complex to stick on yourself.  For example this is a chip by SigmaTel which provides most of those functions in one go: http://www.sigmatel.com/products/portable/audio/stmp3500.aspx

Doesn't look so simple really.

Gunk

[Colin Liston]

Why aren't they making players with CF or SD card slots?  Seems like a CD or DVD player with a CF slot would be perfect, almost like having a cassette again.

[Thom Joad]

My Archos Gmini400 has a CF card slot built into the side of it.  Apparently it can play tunes directly off the cards.  Never tried it since the internal 20GB HD is plenty of space for me so far.

[tfs8271]

Not sure if you can download wav to this and then listen to it. Looks like a nice all in one. Been eyeing one for a long time.

http://www.vosonic.com/index.php?PA=product&id=124


Might look at this one:

http://www.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=15752&nav=1