Portable Media Players and Codecs

[employeeno5]

I'm looking for a PMP that plays mp3, m4a(aac), wav, ogg, and flac.

I'm aware that of many that have various combinations of the above but haven't seen one yet that can play all of them . The hard part is finding ones that do flac and ogg but then also do aac.

I also know that I can transcode files and that Rockbox is available for many players.

However, I'm really interested in a player that I can throw pretty much every major sound format at.

Does anyone know of any?
Google has given me no luck finding one with all of those formats.

Naturally this isn't anything too urgent, but if anyone has any ideas or advice it's much appreciated. Thanks!

PS
If it can do WMV or WMA as well that's great. That is the only one I'm not really concerned about. But again, still, I'm wondering if there's a wunder-player out there that can really handle pretty much everything.

[Hilipatti]

http://www.cowonglobal.com/

The Cowon A3 atleast does all of them. Plus they officially list Linux as "supported".

Tha A3 can play video too, since you said PMP instead of just an MP3 player. They also have various mp3 players.

I've heard that atleast the Cowon D2 has excellent sound quality and it's loved by many audiophiles around the world. Don't know about the PMP's though.

[Andrew Golightly]

Hi there.. I had a look at the http://www.cowonglobal.com/ site.. they look pretty good. Also there is a page here http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers that lists what players play ogg.

My flatmate has a LOT of CDs. She wants to digitise them. What would be a good player that has a large capacity (30Gb+) that supports Vorbis, and where one can manually delete songs from the player itself?

Thoughts anyone? I have an iPOD with rockbox installed.. that works pretty well... not sure the new models are supported by rockbox though.

[mintochris]

I've had a cowon player for 2/3 years or so and it's still going strong. Best mp3 player i've ever had. If you can find one from their range you like I would definately recommend them.

[steeleyuk]

I've got a Cowon iAudio 7 (8GB). Its pretty good, being able to play FLAC and OGG particularly is great.

The only thing I dislike about the player is it doesn't support M3U or PLS files.

[Andrew Golightly]

For cowon devices.. can you delete files (songs/videos) on the fly? As with Rockbox?