From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 01:52:25 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 9803516A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imap.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D329343D31 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.177]) by imap.univie.ac.at (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i548pUg6638120; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:51:32 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:51:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl To: Conrad Sabatier In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20040604105017.A672@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: imap 4247; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org 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 08:52:25 -0000 On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Conrad Sabatier wrote: > 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? Apple's iPod attaches as umass device, and you could copy MP3s just like that, but you still need a tool like gtkpod to create the index files, so that the iPod finds the songs. :-) cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/