MP3 Players

[Ian Malone]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Jose Celestino wrote:
>> Words by John Thompson [Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 10:09:26PM -0600]:

>>> Most MP3 devices are seen as ordinary USB mass storage devices by 
>>> linux. What's the problem?
>>>
>>
>> The problem is that some vendors put a lot of effort into locking the
>> device db to only work with a particular application and that makes
>> things a tad harder.
>>
> 
> That's unfair, I can manipulate playlists on mine. I don't see how a USB 
> storage implementation would allow that.
> 
> 

I've never had to plug an iPod in, but I was under the impression
that (at some earlier stage?) they used UMS/Firewire to copy files
across, but still used a database file to manage the files on the
device.  This may be completely wrong, but it is possible.

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imalone