From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 22 12:10:57 2003 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 0451237B401 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao04.cox.net (lakemtao04.cox.net [68.1.17.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A9E43FE1 for ; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: from localhost.no.no.cox.net ([68.14.60.78]) by lakemtao04.cox.netESMTP <20030622191055.QXZS13930.lakemtao04.cox.net@localhost.no.no.cox.net>; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:10:55 -0400 Received: from ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (conrads@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5MJArow085701; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:10:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost)h5MJArWZ085673; Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:10:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="_=XFMail.1.5.4.FreeBSD:20030622141053:51159=_"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" In-Reply-To: <3EF590B0.7040106@mitre.org> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:10:53 -0500 (CDT) Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Jason Andresen cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Portable MP3 players 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: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:10:57 -0000 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 - "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