[KLUG Members] MP3 Player?

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Wed Dec 29 08:27:53 EST 2004


> I'm a big fan of my Sonicblue (formerly S3, formerly Diamond Multimedia, 
> etc, etc) Rio Karma.  It's a 20 gig HD-based player similar in size to 
> the ipod, but a little cheaper and with a better control system.  I 
> don't think there's a Linux driver to sync it with USB, but the docking 
> station has an Ethernet port.  When docked, the Karma will get a DHCP 
> address and serve a java version of its management software from a mini 
> web server.  I've fired it up on my SuSE 9.2 box and it seems to work 
> fine.  There are some rather annoying design decisions (doesn't work as 
> a USB hard drive, makes a distinction between "files" and "music"), and 
> 100 Mb Ethernet is slower than USB, but it's still a great little box.

Can you copy mp3 files to/from it via Linux over Ethernet?

 - BS




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