From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 11 11:54:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23F616A41C for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:54:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from merke.itea.ntnu.no (merke.itea.ntnu.no [129.241.7.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED5943D48 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:54:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svein-freebsd-questions@theloosingend.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C6613C554 for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maren.thelosingend.net (maren.math.ntnu.no [129.241.211.48]) by merke.itea.ntnu.no (Postfix) with SMTP for ; Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 227 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jun 2005 13:54:51 +0200 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Jun 2005 13:54:51 +0200 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:54:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Svein Halvor Halvorsen X-X-Sender: sveinhal@maren.thelosingend.net To: Frank Staals In-Reply-To: <42AAC117.7060806@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20050611135058.F99424@maren.thelosingend.net> References: <42AAA9BA.2030506@netspace.net.au> <42AAC117.7060806@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Content-Scanned: with sophos and spamassassin at mailgw.ntnu.no. Cc: anon , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD && MP3 Player's X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:54:56 -0000 * Frank Staals [2005-06-11 12:46 +0200] > Almost all mp3-players will work fine with *BSD systems, the basic > filesystem used on them is dos, so you can simply mount them using > 'mount -t msdos'. I can't realy say what mp3 player is best, but check > out the Iriver products, most of their mp3 players also support ogg > vorbis, you are probably looking for an player with HD so check for the > H300 series, www.iriver.com for more info Take notice that some of iRivers products don't come with USB Mass Storage as default, and need a firmware upgrade to support this. Without this support I do not believe that FreeBSD will recognize the unit as an external harddrive. With the UMS firmware, the iRiver units will lack some features, eg. the unit will start up slower, not support MP3 encoding at high bitrates, etc. I would advise anyone to check out these things before buying an iRiver. Thing might have changed with newer versions, thought. I have a 2GB iAUDIO5 myself, of which I am very satisfied. It playes Ogg Vorbis, but it also takes some time to turn on. I have no first hand experience of any other players.