[CALUG] Linux-compatible MP3 player?

Bruce F Press bpress at raba.com
Mon Dec 5 06:23:28 CST 2005


I have 3 IRiver and an IAudio X5, they all work just fine with Linux.
Although, obviously, DRM support is lacking.  I use VMWare and
WindowsXP for licensed content.

Bruce



carlos astrada wrote:

>Look at the iRiver line. They all work with linux and Rockboxx is, I
>believe, starting to work on a new firmware for the line, which means it
>would be SWEET. Although it's a hard drive-based model, I have the iHP-140,
>which I also use as a portable hard drive. =

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces at calug.com [mailto:lug-bounces at calug.com] On Behalf Of
>jason maxwell
>Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 12:09 PM
>To: Bart Nielsen
>Cc: calug
>Subject: Re: [CALUG] Linux-compatible MP3 player?
>
>a lot of linux compatible mp3 players are accessed via the usb_storage
>module and fat filesystem. you just have to make sure your kernel is
>built with that support. mounting is a little harder to describe in an
>email, particularly without knowing all the details of your system.
>there are plenty of howtos out there that cover all the variables
>though.
>
>my wife and i each have the frontier labs NEXia. it uses CF cards, so
>i can decide how much storage i have, and i mount the cards directly
>with a usb2 CF card reader, so the player itself doesnt have to
>support linux (although it does). it runs on 2AA batteries, which i
>recharge. it has the capability to record FM, but not timed. it will
>play mp3, wav, wmv, and its advertised to support ogg vorbis via an
>upcoming firmware upgrade, but i havnt seen that yet. theres no DRM to
>worry about either.
>
>this is a very basic model, but frontier labs makes several models.
>also check out the iriver lineup. my cousin has one of their 40G hard
>drive models and it is very nice, and mounts under linux with no
>problems. if i cared about having my entire music collection with me
>at all times, i would get an iriver.
>--Jason
>
>
>On 12/2/05, Bart Nielsen <blniels at softhome.net> wrote:
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>>The few times I've played with mp3 players, it's just been a little bit
>>of an issue to write:
>>
>>        * fat32 (or the equivalent) file system
>>        * .wav or .mp3 files on top of that.
>>
>>It seems to take me forever to figure out where to look to mount the
>>various devices --- for suse, it tends to put trash in /etc/fstab, for
>>redhat (or others), it's in the /var/log/messages stuff --- but once you
>>figure out how to mount it (and I think all of the linuxes will work
>>fine with anything that works on a windows box), I think you'll be set.
>>
>>        (If you got something that was just OSX compatible you'd probably
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>have
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>>to deal with an HFS file system, but unless you're playing with itunes,
>>who would do that?  (I don't know what sort of file system the ipods use
>>--- hfs?)  I've always just assumed that if I had one of them, I'd be
>>able to write to it from either my wife's mac or my linux box....)
>>
>>
>>bart.
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 04:28, Edward D. Browne wrote:
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>>> I should preface this by saying I've never used or even
>>>touched a portable MP3 player, so I don't even know what it
>>>means to ask "is an MP3 player linux-compatible", but I assume
>>>that there are some features or other that pertain when you
>>>plug your player into your computer.  (I assume the player
>>>pops up on your desktop just like any USB device when you
>>>plug it in, but beyond that I don't know what, if any, features
>>>one expects from his computer for an MP3 player.)
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a portable MP3 player with the following
>>>characteristics: 512MB flash memory,MP3 and WAV, rechargeable
>>>battery, USB and AC adapter, FM tuner, voice, line-in and FM
>>>recording and particularly *timed* FM recording.  As best I can tell,
>>>the best of the very few that do timed FM recording is the Samsung
>>>YEPP YP-T7X.  Obviously all of these players make a big stink about
>>>being Windows compatible (all 20 flavors) and MacOS compatible,
>>>but is there anything I as a Linux user need to care about in terms
>>>of compatibility, other than just drag-n-drop (or similar) file
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>transfers?
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>>>Thanks - Ed
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