On Monday 11 July 2005 23:46, Gavin wrote:

Regis Matejcik wrote:

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Does anyone have a recommendation about an mp3 player that is relatively compatible with SuSE 9.2. I've got a Rio Nitrus, (usb device 1.5 gig) and I found rioutils for linux, but in the readme file it says it doesn't support the Nitrus.

Any suggestions on either how to connect the Rio Nitrus, or a different mp3 player would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Regis Matejcik

Hi Regis,

I would suggest the best mp3 player of them all, an iPOD. I use it via gtkPod and it works perfectly. gtkPod has more functionality than iTunes in managing/backing up your iPOD.

I concur, but use SuSE 9.3 not SuSE 9.2 I had big problems with random freezing whilst copying files to the iPOD, this happened with every PC I tried using USB or Firewire and the SuSE 9.2 stock kernel as updated by YOU. I did install a later kernel and that fixed the data transfers but broke sound on my machine. Since upgrading to SuSE 9.3 everything works a treat. -- David Bottrill david@bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699

Compare it with the Rio Karma. The Karma is the hands-down winner on the technical merits. Plus, it's not white. That might be a good selling point. I just read in the Wall Street Journal about a new wireless headset for the iPod. The article said that the development was prompted in part by the high theft rate in places like New York City where

Randall R Schulz wrote: thieves recognized the distinctive white wire. Damon Register

On July Tuesday 12 2005 3:19 pm, Jos van Kan wrote:

Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I get about 10 hours music, all 10 Beethoven CDroms > MP3 burned onto one.

All 10 Beethoven CDRoms? 10 CD's would barely hold the 32 piano sonatas. And then we still have 9 symphonies (6 CD's), 5 piano concertos (3), 10 violin sonatas (4), the pianotrios (5), the string quartets (5), Fidelio (3) and some loose work conservatively estimated at another 10 CD's. Maybe it would fit on a DVD, properly compressed that is. And, fairly, listening to 10 hours of Beethoven could be hazardous to your health. :-) as an aside , I have discovered something that apparently DVD-player sellers don't know. We were told earlier this year that although various DVD players will play mp3 CDs they won't play mp3 DVDs.. well, that is wrong, they certainly do.

I've tried it on several DVD players that play CD-mp3s, It appears it recognizes the mp3 format.. I haven't tried it on ones that do not play mp3cds, largely because I don't know where any of them are.. not w/ in my sphere anyway.. Might be worth a trip to one of those behemoth electronic stores and just keep putting my mp3 dvd into them until one fails.. Next project, will it do that w/ a dual layer dvd.. and then how to reach these folks and get them to recognize ogg-vorbis encoding? -- j

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:19, Jos van Kan wrote:

Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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I get about 10 hours music, all 10 Beethoven CDroms > MP3 burned onto one.

All 10 Beethoven CDRoms? 10 CD's would barely hold the 32 piano sonatas. And then we still have 9 symphonies (6 CD's), 5 piano concertos (3), 10 violin sonatas (4), the pianotrios (5), the string quartets (5), Fidelio (3) and some loose work conservatively estimated at another 10 CD's. Maybe it would fit on a DVD, properly compressed that is. And, fairly, listening to 10 hours of Beethoven could be hazardous to your health. :-)

I ripped them to MP3 first. It is a collection of his sympnonys. Your right I need the sonatas. Lucky me the player remembers where you leave off so you don't need do that in one day. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

My lovely wife bought me a Samsung YPT7Z. 1 GB storage. Weighs 1.25 ounces and is the size of a small matchbox. Connected it to my SuSE 9.2 box via USB cable. Immediately recognized it. Ripped a bunch of oggs and did a drag and drop directly into the Samsung. Very fast. Very easy. Laughed at the pages of instructions on installing software so the unit could talk to a Windoze machine! ;o)))) Plays great. This player is wonderful and works with SuSE with absolutely no tweaking. Connect to a good set of ear-buds (e.g., Etymotic Research 6i) and it's heaven. Gil

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Connect to a good set of ear-buds (e.g., Etymotic Research 6i) and it's heaven.

Gil

Are those Etymotic Research inner-ear bud type phones ? The one's you can sleep with ? I've been looking for an alternative to my sony fontopia MDR's -- SynapseR