Re: MP3 player for linux
From: Analabha Roy (daneelNOSPAM_at_physics.utexas.edu)
Date: 07/26/05
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 06:07:30 -0500
David Lloyd Geering wrote:
> Brian white wrote:
>> I asked about one earlier. and a yepp from samsung was the result. 500
>> megabytes. Supports ogg files too. Has a decent microphone with the
>> ability to add an external sterio one if you want. And as a voice
>> recorder, (records in wav format) it can do a couple of days worth of
>> recording! Useful to spies, I guess. The voice recorder part of mp3
>> players is not well marketed, I think. It recorded some whacky coffee
>> shop conversation just great.
>> Worked fine as mass storage in my linux and the lady's win 2000 for
>> transferring pics from trips round victoria.
>>
>> And usb 2 but works with our usb 1 so all good in that regard. It froze
>> one time on voice recording so will see if that happens again.
>> She has it now so we shall see how it goes. she is keen on the fm radio
>> part of it.
>> As usual on these things, linux is not mentioned on the packaging so as
>> usual, the fear of it failing or blowing up. But it worked fine so far.
>> Brian White
>
> A lot of those MP3 players use the USB Mass Storage specification, which
> is a uniform way of allowing a USB device to act like a hard drive.
> Because it is a public standard, it is easy to incorporate this feature
> into Linux.
>
> Now, imagine a brand of MP3 player that does not use the USBMS specs.
> How the hell is anyone but employees of the manufacturing company
> supposed to know how it works? It would be far harder to support it in
> Linux.
Easily imagined. The Rio Karma (not iRiver. That supports mass storage).
Also, U can install linux in an ipod yourself and enjoy.
http://www.ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
>
> If it says anywhere on the box that it uses the USBMS specs, then you
> will have little trouble working it with Linux.
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