Hello everyone!
Well, this weekend I officially got 1 year older and my
loving wife
bought me a sexy sleek black iRiver X20 portable audio/video
player! I
plugged it into my Ubuntu Laptop and ... it worked! (Bet you
though it
didn't and I was going to complain, at which point you could
tell me
to shove off to the -users list! Well it did, so nah-nah!) A
big thank
you to whoever got MTP devices mounting! I even got some
music synced
via rhythmbox in a few minutes. Yey! ^_^
There was no problem video working either. At least nothing
a bit of
scripting and mencoder could not solve. However it would be
nice to
have a GUI video syncing program. In fact that is the reason
I'm
writing this E-mail:
Does anyone know of a GUI Video Syncing program. Browse
video by
meta-data, drag'n'drop to portable device, automatically
re-encode.
That sort of thing. Anyone?
I tried google for one, but got nothing. Next step, this
step, is
asking on a mailing-list full of knowledgeable (or at least
semi-knowledgeable) people. Is this an itch I have to
scratch myself,
or has someone already done it for me? Maybe even
half-scratch? Does
anyone want to scratch it for me? or maybe we could scratch
together?
Now that the Question has been asked I have a little story
some of you
might like:
My wife also bought herself a small player at the same time
she got
mine. Different model and pink. She likes pink. Anyway, the
thing is,
she runs XP and with XP comes WMP10 After plugging it in,
fumbling
about for 10minutes, reading the manual a bit and fumbling
for another
10 minutes she turns to me with a sad expression on her
face.
"it's not working", she says.
"what do you mean?", I replied and walked over to
her screen.
"see this playlist in WMP? It says the songs are on the
player, but
when I take the player out it says there is no data!",
and sure
enough, the player had 'NO DATA' in large, un-friendly
letters
displayed on screen.
Well, I don't think you will have trouble guessing what I
did next. I
took the player to plug it into my Ubuntu machine.
"No! Don't do that!", my wife cried out!
"Eh? Why not? I just want to make sure that the files
are actually on
there, that's all.", I explained.
"But your machine is weird! It might brake it!"
"It's already broken isn't it?", and without
waiting for an answer I
plugged it in. Up popped nautilus and sure enough, the audio
files
where on there, but in wma format. 'Maybe it's because they
are not in
MP3 format', I thought. Although unusual these days, some
players do
not support wma, but considering that it required WMP to
connect to it
was a slim chance. A chance none the less, so I copied over
a mp3 and
unmounted. What do you know, it worked! So I gave her back
the now
working player thinking it could only play mp3s.
"It's working?! Did you convert all my files to
MP3s?", she asked.
"Eh? No I just copied one file over."
"Then how come they are all available?"
"They are?", and sure enough, all the wma files
were also available in
the playlist. I let her play with her new toy for a bit
before asking
the question that need to be asked: "Tell me again,
who's computer was
it brakes things?".
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Moral of the story: Ubuntu is bless with god-given Portable
Audio
Player Healing powers and Windows Media Player eats their
babies for
breakfast.
I bid you good day,
Arwyn (who, although officially 1 year older than he was a
week ago,
still acts like a 10yr kid suffering from caffeine
overdose).
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