From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 16:41:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1D816A4DD for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:41:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5198543D55 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:41:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1746185wxd for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:41:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tMFhEVuYQh1XPvWctbaf61emIRmpP9hmOV7RQv0cXAxF5qLvW633Fvt73gLcHhoZHTk/wCEnZNYNd2RwRArDm/H9RKVz245OxzWAafrjGsXIpYCNw8OX3mLUFjwWfuSLfh0B7dqQLf/1k3MDeWu1GuLNipuFmGnrTGAts3G5iw4= Received: by 10.70.117.1 with SMTP id p1mr9567250wxc; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:39:46 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Fabian Keil" In-Reply-To: <20060828132818.396b266c@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608280216.19718.soralx@cydem.org> <20060828132818.396b266c@localhost> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portable audio player >= 18Gb X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:41:29 -0000 On 8/28/06, Fabian Keil wrote: > soralx@cydem.org wrote: > > > is anyone feeling kind enough today to recommend a good mp3/ogg player? ;) > > AFAIK there are no good mp3/ogg players available yet, > some are good enough though. > > > The basic requirement is that it should be just a standard umass device, > > so I could upload dirs with music files onto it, and then simply tell the > > device to play all files in a certain directory, or make some playlists > > and play them sequentially. None of that "synchronization" or id3-database > > crap. > > AFAIK, the only player that has more or less usable interface (the way I > > described) is the Cowon, model X5L. However, it'd be interesting to know > > if there are (or will be soon) any alternatives. > > I know nothing about the Cowon X5L, but bought an iRiver H340 about a > year ago. It has several flaws, but back then it was the best device > I could find. I wouldn't be surprised if it still is. > > I wrote about the H340 in general at: > http://www.fabiankeil.de/produkt-erfahrungen/iriver-h340.html > and about using it with FreeBSD at: > http://www.fabiankeil.de/freebsd/iriver-h340.html > The texts are in German, you might have to run them > through one of the website translation services. > > Even if you decide to get a different player, > I strongly suggest that you get one that can boot > Rockbox. http://www.rockbox.org/ > I have a Cowon iAUDIO 5 that works well enough with FreeBSD. It shows up on the system like a USB Flash drive would: umass0: COWON iAUDIO 5, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 992MB (2032384 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 992C) # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbflash0/ # umount /mnt/usbflash0/ # camcontrol eject da0 Unit stopped successfully, Media ejected It does play ogg vorbis files but I haven't tested that feature and I remember having to upgrade it's firmware but can't remember why. Best of all is that it was ~$100 when I bought it and that it has voice and 3.5" in-line jack so I can record (lectures, etc.) directly to mp3 format and it has a build in FM radio. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/