T. Joseph CARTER, le Fri 28 Apr 2006 01:05:47 -0700, a écrit : > The software FOR WINDOWS lets you send random files to the BookPort from > context menus and whatnot. By mounting the device as a USB key, ANY software on linux can do this. > One of the things the software will do is analyze > audibook mp3 files and create navigation bookmarks which map to next > sentance, next paragraph, and next chapter. It does this by length of the > pauses between words. Software like this can be written and might already exist. This really doesn't have to do with the device. > The software, again, FOR WINDOWS, supports more file formats than the > hardware device does. And linux software like ogg123/mplayer/... can handle oggs, mp3s, mpgs, wavs, aus, flcs, etc... > Now, I assume that probably about half of its functionality is available > under Linux. The other half would have to be written. Indeed. But I repeat: this _doesn't_ have to do with the device itself. In Free Software, such software is always written independently of the actual device where files are stored. > rsync doesn't even begin to enter the equation until someone who's got one > reports what the thing does when you plug it in to a Linux box via USB. > Presumably someone has done this. I'm looking for that person. Agreed. You need to be able to mount it. But then you'll have a plethora of software for managing files of the mount. This really is independent. Samuel _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list