From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 20:08:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8013716A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:08:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D453743D49 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net ([68.11.70.23]) by lakermmtao01.cox.netESMTP <20040604030804.QIV16976.lakermmtao01.cox.net@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net> for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:08:04 -0400 Received: from ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net (localhost.no.no.cox.net [127.0.0.1])i54384WA074564 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:08:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-11-70-23.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost)i5437xju074563 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:07:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.5 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:07:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: MP3 players (USB devices) -- how compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: conrads@cox.net List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:08:06 -0000 I am desperately in need of an MP3 player to use at work, in order to preserve my sanity. :-) Seriously, one of my supervisors insists on having the most god-awful radio station playing throughout the building all day long, one which repeats the same tired playlist over and over and over at intervals of roughly two hours. It's enough to make one go postal (and I happen to work for the Postal Service, too, by the way). :-) Anyway, with the proliferation of USB devices available nowadays, I'm just wondering how safe or risky would it be to just go ahead and grab one and hook it up to my machine. Is it a simple matter of configuring it as a umass device and just copying files over to the player? Or are most of them really that dependent on the proprietary Windows/Mac software that comes bundled with most of the them? Thanks for any feedback! -- Conrad Sabatier - "In Unix veritas"