From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGNQA-0004eA-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:48:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A709DE04EE; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6560E03ED for ; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:47:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.91] (37.1.3.91) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.118.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 478A039E00A0B476 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:47:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4792916E.5020902@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:10:22 +0100 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071119) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Cowon iAudio u5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 85991305-293c-418c-9db0-9cbc8ec8920c X-Archives-Hash: 56ea5ec28cf414b384716f3b8dba5cda (I crosspost it here from the forums because I have no answers there...) Hi, I'm considering buying this mp3 player: http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5/#specs What I don't understand, is if it's Gentoo-friendly. Cowon x5 and i7 units, apart from being high quality players, used to be very Linux-friendly AFAIK, and they even nicely support Ogg Vorbis audio. However the x5 is discontinued and the i7 looks a bit too costly for me. The u5 seems nice, unfortunately it doesn't support Ogg, but apart from it looks cool. However it says: Supports Windows Media DRM 10, MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) [...] USB Data Transfer Support for MAC OS (9.X, 10.X) and Linux (v2.2 and higher) >>From the PDF manual it seems to be "nice", in the meaning that you can just drag-and-drop mp3 files like on a USB drive, and it will play them. But if it's so, why it talks about MTP and Windows DRM (brrr!) ? Basically, I don't want to find myself with an Ipod-like brick where I can copy files on, but won't play them. Is some Gentooer using the iAudio u5? What do you advise me to look for in understanding this issue? Thanks, m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list