MP3 players.... again...

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 01:48, Jerry McBride wrote:

> 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! 

'apple only'? Meaning the iPod? It is not apple-only. gtkPod is a great
Linux app for managing the iPod. (Just ignore the A-Ha tunes in the
screen shots on the gtkpod site.) I use an iPod with Linux exclusively.
Nary a problem. The iPod does not convert your MP3 files. It supports
MP3 and MPA files. In addition, it will play files you download
(optionally) from Apple. But that is fully optional. It functions
perfectly as a straight forward MP3 player. gtkpod even has a way to
read all the MP3s off an iPod. So I guess you can even use it to share
MP3s via sneaker net.

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