I've been lurking around here for a while and learned lots of useful things without needing to ask, but this has me stumped.

I keep my ogg collection on a Toshiba 5Gb PCCard to use in my iPAQ with PocketMusic. I use Xmms on the linux box at home where the oggs are archived but would like to play them on my laptop (as I don't carry the PCCard jacket for the iPAQ everywhere). Our work laptops (which run XP) are quite tightly policy retricted so I can't liberally install whatever I like.

Can anybody point me at a Win32 ogg player that will unzip onto the PCCard and run from there without splattering itself all over my laptop and it's registry?

Many thanks in advance and apologies if this is in a FAQ somewhere.

Regards,
Dox...

You could have a look at: XMPlay, Coolplayer or 1by1 (latter needs Winamp's in_vorbis.dll). Think maybe you could get foobar2000 to do this also if you just install the lite version to someplace, you could bring it's directory with you. It uses different versions utf8api.dll for 9x and NT+, though....

Another vote for fb2k. Just build your own minimal version by copying its directory and removing all the components you don't need 'on-the-road' (Diskwriter, Albumlist etc).

Thanks guys, off to look for fb2k now...

Regards
Dox

Foobar2000 does everything™

I use Foobar on my USB hard drive, it is excellent. You will have to save different playlists for times when the drive is a different letter, however.