[clue-tech] mp3/ogg players

[Dave Price]

The device may show up as a disk drive ... plug it in and watch
/var/log/messages  ) sudo tail -f /var/log/messages before and after
removal to see ... a lot of them have vfat / fat32 filesystems that
you may write to directly - probably need to reencode the files as
mp3, as few consumer devices can play oggs - there are some excellent
ones out there though.

Also amarock may recognize the device and make transfers a litlle more
intutitive

There is also a great little command line tool called lsusb, which
will list connected devices/

and  cat /proc/usb used to be helpfull, but I think the udev system
makes it 'depricated'

If /var/log/messages shows a device (probably sdxx) associated with
your usb filesystem, you can mount it as root, if automount has not
already done so...

aloha  (and I hope this helps),
dave


On 11/4/07, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> My wife has a collection of inspirational audio recordings that she
> would like to put on an mp3/ogg/ipod/??? device to listen to to/from
> work or whenever. I have them ripped to ogg on my pc. Now the search
> is on for a portalbe device that I can transfer the files to via USB.
>
> I know from nothing about these devices. Is there such a device that
> will allow me to download the ogg (if necessary, convert to mp3, but
> preferably ogg) files? She has a little mp3 player (called mpj210)
> that is designed to work with napster, but I can see no way to
> download files directly to the device even though it has a USB
> connection.
>
> Any help appreciated.