-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:43:43AM -0400, Peter Tesar wrote: > Hi, > > The Itunes software can be set to convert the downloaded unprotected files > to the MP3 format. > You don't need Itunes to download MP3 music and you don't need special > softwar to copy (syncronize) the files to the portable device. > > Windows recognizes a portable device, connected via the USB port, as another > drive letter. You can then use the Windows (or command line) copy command to > transfer files to the drive. > > I'm not yet a full Linux user but I suspect it can transfer files to a > device attached to the USB port. > The MP3 player has a folder structure so you can choose to manually put the > files where you want. > If you are referring to the IPod specifically, from what I remember, this is true to an extent. ITunes obfuscates filenames, and keeps track of what is what in its library (both on the computer, and the IPod itself). For this reason, I don't think any new files you copy to it would be picked up natively, since you would have to update the XML first. I don't know if this is still true for the newer models; however, I do know that it applies to the hard disk-based ones. > > Personally I have ripped music files from CDs and copied them from vinal > records. These are manually copied to the Olympus DS50 digital recorder. It > plays MP3 and WMA files. The folder structure is limited but I don't need > the many layers of Categorizing. > > I hope that this helps. > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > - -- Igor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBSucSHKe2pgKIdGq4AQov3BAApVsi3Uo4D+9h9Ffcm0sDD9F12TH66TvB TZsPuRMpXCAntIZj6PD7XTpu7PX2P6Or7IvtnotXFVC1qCuFskfpxD2UvhEmfOqZ aomRt/MjbZdlmGuu6eDPqJNsDnhC/UPGOBTEW5xqpTLip5N/ZffggrpEM3waBHuD OAed+b/QGnCgdA8Q5ZLyM6YRjYX7PP2oupPFJe5vDO4ZyHxlKOX5MLi1TM8LEJLC h+5CQxb9kcOm8prfMZ24UtpTttB/LpRGW6JYubc+XpwyDNpjyQncNPvqLubDhsuP GRCBu+eZmammcIkZvpl14rXLMzy/bWgeFzswiaG33xP8ZnBxTxN2jbgsZSqP78lp LQ4k60gLfdYlejxQXWud8wOPzBasdaz465nHXVG33EmpfyquckjSkk+csCZxYyQP V1msC3Ivb7mM0mkhI9a1FLyQq4dLn9WzD6hrrIEqo3hx1iuUamOIHHV+fLYxH0t3 VNBke3h7JiwY/XCW3EmD8C789NwNmdQ2mvktOzv8X4es3Nth0XZBN+heHF6iqWCF eWQEpltYwV3JaNH+xMvU9OVAmLcC3qsmEAWo+Hz6XMViVNV1J24OiaZZCUX+yJga 4hlkmKnNwQE/GgJ8wPKfoMRQO57rjlDBlwRgJcNhB7nyh8SMd5F7/Y+FUMeyDBuM IabielCVYbA= =qPeU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
