Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:51:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MP3 players (USB devices) -- how compatible? Message-ID: <20040604105017.A672@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040603220759.conrads@cox.net> References: <XFMail.20040603220759.conrads@cox.net>
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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/
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