From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 22:46:04 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 6472B16A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85F743D58 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no (68.80-202-174.nextgentel.com [80.202.174.68]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id BB14D56B7 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:46:22 +0200 (MEST) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:40:16 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040604074016.6f0a4d44.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq;m"_0v;~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MP3 players (USB devices) -- how compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 05:46:04 -0000 On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:07:59 -0500 (CDT) Conrad Sabatier wrote: > 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? It varies. Some devices are true umass devices, some are proprietary. And there are even some that started life as proprietary, but now (with new firmware) have changed into umass devices. I have a Dynetel DN6512 (aka "Tuny II") player, and it is now a umass device. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway