Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:10:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Portable MP3 players Message-ID: <XFMail.20030622141053.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <3EF590B0.7040106@mitre.org>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.5.4.FreeBSD:20030622141053:51159=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 22-Jun-2003 Jason Andresen wrote: >> I was in Radio Shack the other day, and inquired with one of the >> salesmen about their portable MP3 players (neither of them RIOs). As >> he explained it, once connected to a PC, they appear as a standard >> external USB storage device. Is this correct? If so, does that mean >> one could simply 'cp' files over to the device and have them actually >> work? > > That sounds good, although it is possible that you have to install some > windows specific driver to get that to work. Yes, that's one of the things I'm worried about. :-) > In FreeBSD you're might to have to make a quirk for it (most likely the > no_6_byte quirk in my experiance) unless someone else in FreeBSD land > already bought one of them. I'm not familiar with the "no_6_byte quirk" thing. Is this a known common problem with these machines? I'm fairly adept at hacking, so I'm sure I could work up something, as long as I know what I'm targeting. > Either way, I'd keep the recipt in case you can't get it to work. For sure. :-) -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas" --_=XFMail.1.5.4.FreeBSD:20030622141053:51159=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+9f88r8RegkxqgIgRAsSeAKD69UKLfvojfxD6qpCZJeFC/c92WgCfXFcB 7s24gW385gXtRuPe1t2q/hg= =T6so -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --_=XFMail.1.5.4.FreeBSD:20030622141053:51159=_-- End of MIME message
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