Fwd: Portable MP3 players

[Jason Andresen]

Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> Argggh!  Damn ISP suddenly started blocking outgoing SMTP.  I tried sending
> this several days ago, actually.  Anyway...
> 
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> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:29:09 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads at cox.net>
> To: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
> Subject: Portable MP3 players
> 
> Just a curiosity question at the moment:
> 
> 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.

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.

Either way, I'd keep the recipt in case you can't get it to work.

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