MP3 players.... again...

[Jerry McBride]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 05:41 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday 23 October 2004 16:49, Jerry McBride wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 October 2004 10:55 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
>
> About the Lyra....   I went looking for info on it and came across:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/lxs/www/soapbox/lyra.html
>
>
> Is this true or not?  Sounds from your experience it is not true.
>

Probably true... 

I have never, ever seen an RCA LYRA2 RD2211. Don't draw bad conclusions from 
my post on the RCA LYRA RD1071, which uses sd/mmc cards instead of compact 
flash cards.... What the RD2211 appears to be, is one of those bastard 
standards, DRM enabled, microsoft/apple only pieces of hardware that you 
don't want to buy or waste your time on... Like it said in the review, it 
converts your mp3's into a proprietary format that only that player can use 
and it should be BOYCOTTED! 

The LYRA RD1071 that I posted about, has no such restriction. It behaves like 
any other USB mas storage device under linux.

That's my single reason for posting my GOODl linux compatibility with the RCA 
LYRA RD1071 mp3 player. 

There's so much disinformation about which portable mp3 players work and don't 
work, that when I found one that did, I made a mini-review about it. As I did 
for the CREATIVE MUVO NX mp3/usb player. The conclusion that you drew from my 
comment only adds to the confusion. Be careful.

Cheers.


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