Using Philips GoGear on Fedora

[Suvayu Ali]

Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just bought a Philips GoGear 8 Gb. I chose this mostly because it is 
> free of DRM stuff. That is one of the things Philips emphasises on for 
> the GoGear range of media players. To play my mp3's all I need to do is 
> drag and drop them to the player which is mounted as a regular USB drive.
> 
> Everything is awesome except that the player can't read the tags 
> although the manual says it supports both ID3v1 and v2. I use Picard to 
> tag my mp3's and they show up just fine in rhythmbox. As for video, it 
> needs to be converted to .smv (Simgatel mobile video, I think) before 
> the player can play them. So I figured I might need to use something 
> like opengear[1] or golb[2] (GoGear On Linux Boxes) to do the file 
> transfers and video conversion, but these projects seem to have been 
> abandoned. Moreover I wasn't able to compile the source code from the 
> golb tarball as there was no configure script or makefile.
> 
> I have tried running the manufacturer provided software on wine, but 
> that is a no go. Does anyone have any experience with these players?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> [1]http://opengogear.sarovar.org/
> [2]http://golb.sourceforge.net/#download
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/golb/
> 

Anyone any thoughts or suggestions on this one?

-- 
Suvayu

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