On 8/19/05, James Brigman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a bud who has an "iRiver" and it doesn't look like a standard > memory device. it needs a "widget" to communicate with it, designed to > prevent piracy. It sux. Maybe this one is better, but I'd avoid. > > I've bought the SanDisk 1GB player from buy.com <http://buy.com>. Looks > like a regular > 1GB USB stick, has an FM tuner built in. It rocks. Got two of 'em. They > ought to work with Linux no probs, no special driverz. > > JKB > > I haven't had any problem communicating to the iRiver - we use a tool called ifpgui. Actually works well. I know if you upgrade the flash then communication gets tricky but I didn't do that so no problems here. She likes the iRiver and we have not had any problems transferring music except that it doesn't like really long filenames - but that is not that bad. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
