MP3 players.... again...

[Jerry McBride]

Just a note, my wife brought home a busted RCA LYRA mp3 player, with 128meg 
internal memory. A bit of fiddling and I got the thing to work ok. It has a 
busted battery door latch and took a bit of tugging to get the spring 
contact, down inside the case, to pop up and press against the battery 
correctly... That and heavy rubber band to keep the door closed...

It works.

Anyways,  it also works well under linux. I'm able to mount the LYRA as a vfat 
formatted scsi device and copy, delete mp3's as desired and they all play 
fine. Decent sound, nice options, but the lcd screen needs a backlight so, so 
bad... The player doesn't seem to be bothered with the file name scheme I use 
and... well... it's neat.

There's a slot on top that accepts a mmc/sd memory card for expansion. I'll be 
testing this feature tomorrow after I score  a memory card from Radio Shack.

So, the bottom line is... don't be afraid of buying one of these for use under 
linux... they work.

Cheers.

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