[toys] What portable media player should I get?

[darxus]

Requirements:

• Ogg Vorbis support.
• Linux support, probably by being a standard USB mass storage device, including firmware upgrades.
• Useful for playlist pruning

I've never owned one. Except for the ipod work gave me which is useless due to inability to play vorbis, and phones with insignificant storage.

I'm thinking about 8gb.

I care a lot about being able to easily delete a song from my playlist while driving.

It would also be nice to have a scan mode like my car radio - play only a random 3 seconds of each song, for playlist building from a random pile of music. But I don't know of any player that does that yet.

FLAC support would be cool, but I don't know that I would ever want to use it on a portable player.

I'm not interested in FM radio and removable media slots. I'm not confident I care about having a display at all.

List of Vorbis players.