[vorbis] First impressions of iRiver iHP120

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 08:43, 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?  Or would
> I need some sort of tool to update a database on the unit (like in the
> case of the Neuros)?
>

By default, this is how it works. You just copy the files on, and can browse 
around the filesystem to select them.

There's also an optional DB file (like the neuros, except optional). I haven't 
used it. It comes with windows software. There's some third-party 
implementations to write the DB file too. I wrote one, but I haven't released 
it. Or used it.

Mike

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