portable music players

[Jesse Lazar]

I ended up purchasing the sansa clip (2gb). I'm real happy with it, though I
am still in the process of setting it & my computer up.  Part of the reason
I like it so much is because I have not had any digital music player before
and for $50 this makes stacking wood out back a whole lot more fun.

When I was researching what I wanted I was seriously considering something
that I could load rockbox onto, but when I looked at the rockbox site it
looked to me like it is not possible to get a new player that will work. At
best you could but the sansa e200 and take a gamble on the firmware version?
Moot point now...

Over the weekend I was only able to add songs to it in such a way that I the
artist and album tags are lost (so I just loaded albums that would have been
on one playlist) and it worked fine.  Last night I upgraded the firmware,
and I have found that I can load albums in .ogg format with the artist and
 album tags preserved.  What I need to do for this to work is set the player
to MSC mode.  I think I will now find I can use playlists.

One problem that I am having is that I can only see the player if I plug it
in before I boot.  I do not have this problem with my flash memory drive.
Could anyone give me some tips on figuring this out?

The thing is it will only recognize the player if is there when the machine
boots.  It will recognize the player in either MTP or MSC mode. If I unmount
the drive and plug it back in, or if I plug the player in after I boor it
will not be recognized.  How do you manually boot a usb device???

I use Ubuntu hardy 8.04.


Thanks

Jesse Lazar
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