[vorbis] First impressions of iRiver iHP120

[Michiel Toneman]

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 22:43, Stan Seibert wrote:
> Michiel Toneman wrote:
> 
> >Seriously though, it's a great little unit. Even as a hot pluggable,
> >unpowered diskdrive it would be pretty much worth the cost alone. I get
> >a continuous read/write throughput of about 10MB/s over USB2.
> >
> >Other great features are a.o. the optical-in/out and of course Vorbis 
> >support :-D
> >  
> >
> 
> Out of curiosity, how does the unit find new songs?  Could I, for 
> example, mount the drive as an external USB 2.0 hard disk on my Linux 
> box, copy a bunch of Oggs to it, unmount, and then play them?

Yup, that's it exactly... It just uses the file tree structure (vfat
filesystem). The unit gets recognised as a USB mass storage device.

>   Or would 
> I need some sort of tool to update a database on the unit (like in the 
> case of the Neuros)?
> 

There is an optional song database that can be used to browse
songs/genre/album/artist (I don't use it, it sort of sucks). There is a
linux GPL tool to generate this at http://www.marevalo.net/iRipDB/

Cheers,

Michiel

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