| Bill Jonas on Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:50:10 +0200 |
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 09:04:22AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > I just installed a USB port in preparation for buying a portable mp3 > player. The machine has no windows usb support. Can anybody direct me > to an article or something that explains my options for using linux to > upload to these devices. If I were going to be getting an MP3 player today, I'd probably get a NexII or NexIIe from Frontier Labs. Apparently, they use standard compact flash (as opposed to "smart media" or whatever it's called) and have no annoying DRM-based limitations. And, from what I've heard, it acts just like a USB drive, so you can just mount the filesystem and copy your MP3s over to it. (Incidentally, you can also apparently copy any old file over to it and use the player as a plain-vanilla file-transfer medium.) It got good reviews by a Slashdot editor. Linkage: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=nexii Original NexII: http://www.frontierlabs.com/NexII.html New-n-improved NexIIe: http://www.frontierlabs.com/IIe.html These start around $100 without any compact flash storage. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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