Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:07:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: MP3 players (USB devices) -- how compatible? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040603220759.conrads@cox.net>
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I am desperately in need of an MP3 player to use at work, in order to preserve my sanity. :-) Seriously, one of my supervisors insists on having the most god-awful radio station playing throughout the building all day long, one which repeats the same tired playlist over and over and over at intervals of roughly two hours. It's enough to make one go postal (and I happen to work for the Postal Service, too, by the way). :-) 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? Thanks for any feedback! -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"
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