Audio CDs to the Rio 500 mp3 player using Linux
By jeltsch on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 15:18OK, it is easier on a Mac. iTunes is free and does it all for you (and does it well). To replace iTunes I need at least three applications on Linux :-(
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
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rio500-0.7-1.i386.rpm works under RedHat 9
By jeltsch on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 15:16I again tried to compile rio500-0.8.1, but without success. Compiling fails under kernel 2.4. This is an unresolved issue and mentioned in the discussion forums. So I installed the Rio500 package rio500-0.7-1.i386.rpm. Interestingly I managed via the command line to
a) format the internal memory: rio_format
b) create a folder (which is necessary before one can upload a song): rio_add_folder c) upload mp3s: rio_add_song ). That's a big advantage to the crappy Windows Rioport interface. Next time I try to install the Gnome GUI.
Floppies and Linux
By jeltsch on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 15:14Since I started to use html and CSS to create my presentations (instead of OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office), even quite large presentations fit on regular 1.4MB floppies. Thus I popped an empty floppy into the drive and formatted it as ext2. Funnily the GUI floppy mounter is not able to recognise the file system when it is set to autodetect. Thus I formatted as MS-DOS and the autodetect file system works. Strange...