Re: CD ripping (was: Re: [PLUG] un-upgrade in debian)

[Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

I'm sure everyone knows this but...

The linux Zaurus can play .ogg and .mp3 files ok... just you are more
limited in storage space then you would be with some of the mp3
portables. (and my ZaurusOS Zaurus can play .mp3 ok).

 -- noah silva 

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:14:17AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > Thanks all for the suggestions.  I'm starting in a vacuum here and 
> > wasn't sure where to start.  I wonder whether the sony memory sticks 
> > work as I am considering a clie, too.
> 
> Being as they're proprietary and largely undocumented, they're maybe
> not your best choice. (Unless that's changed since I decided there
> was no way I was buying into a Sony Vaio, no matter how pretty they
> were, considering how anti-open source Sony is. The second part of
> that hasn't changed; cf, DRM ignoring everything that's not Windows,
> and that only grudgingly.)
> 
> Fwiw, I had (well, still have) a portable CD player that also read
> MP3s (and, apparently, Windows Media too, though I've never had a
> way to find out) from an ISO-9660 CD-ROM. Worked just fine, till
> the laser up and failed. (It was a Rio Volt. The MP3 interface was
> decent, but the physical construction felt a bit flimsy. If I were
> to buy a new one, I'd get one from someone who had proven that they
> knew what they were doing with consumer electronics, rather than
> someone who had proven that they knew what they were doing with
> MP3, as I did the first time.)
> 
> I haven't bothered replacing it, though, as my aging IBM ThinkPad
> works just fine in my car (a '94 Jetta with the then-top-of- line
> VW stereo, which includes a stereo 1/8" jack, perfect for stuff
> like this--far better quality than you get off of those tape deck
> adapters). For long road trips, I just charge up a few extra
> batteries and toss them in the back seat. I haven't bothered yet,
> but yet another car localization would be to mount everything that
> matters (as in, anything that's not /tmp or /var) read-only (I'm
> pretty sure apmd can be configured to do things like this on power
> events--on battery, low batter, whatever--but I've never bothered to
> play with it, as the video in my ThinkPad is ornery and
> undocumented, and using apmd is a good way to break both video and
> audio when the laptop wakes up from sleep).
> 
> I suppose that a laptop works just fine in a car, but doesn't do
> much for, say, the jogger, though. (Hey--I don't run, but I do swim.
> Are there water proof MP3 devices yet? There are certainly swimmers
> radios, seems like a logical step...)
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 

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