[Flac] Playing flac files from external hard drive

[Christopher Brown]

I use an old laptop running linux. Works great, and it is a very inexpensive 
solution. 

On Wednesday 07 July 2010 13:00:28 ABRAHAM NAIM wrote:
> Many thanks for this! I was looking for an inexpensive solution, and a
> Nokia tablet is too expensive for me. I was hoping for a cheap mp3 player
> with a USB connection, but thanks for the advice anyway.
>
> On 7 July 2010 19:30, Ognjen Bezanov <Ognjen at mailshack.com> wrote:
> > My nokia n810 does this. I have in fact done what you want and played
> > FLAC files off my external 120GB drive using the "Canola" media player.
> > You need an external source to power the disk though, because the n810
> > doesn't provide enough power to run a hard disk.
> >
> > On 07/07/10 16:47, ABRAHAM NAIM wrote:
> > > I have a 500GB external hard drive with a lot of music in flac format.
> > > I would like to find a way to play music directly from the drive
> > > through a portable player. I do not own a portable player at the moment
> > > and intend to buy one that can support the above requirement.
> > >
> > > What I don't want to do is copy files across and remove them every time
> > > I want to listen to music.
> > > Is there a way to play music directly from the external drive, using a
> > > USB connection, on any portable player?

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Chris