Re: [Banshee-List] Misreported MP3 device and a question



I also saw the problem that there is no way to handle a device that can
actually play ogg,... it wants to transcode for every external player
which is very slow.

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:49 -0700, David Fox wrote:
> I happen to have this device:
> 
> http://www.bayconsumer.com/m620.htm (mine has no FM radio)
> 
> It is reported as a "D-Link 2GB mp3 player", but it works, and I can
> send stuff to the device. It's actually a 4GB player, not a 2GB
> player, although I can write to all of the device.
> 
> I recently found out that my device (although it's not supposed to do
> that) will play OGG format files fine. On my desktop install of 1.4.3
> (Ubuntu Jaunty) I have the software setup to rip CDs to OGG files.
> 
> However, when I drag and drop the files from where they are in the
> Banshee listing to the "Dlink" entry on the left hand side of the
> application screen, files start to move over to the M620, but they
> seem to be converted over to WAV format first, (I saw evidence to that
> by looking at the controlling terminal I invoked banshee from). WAV
> format isn't going to be useful; for one thing, it takes up way too
> much space, and thus defeats the purpose of having the songs on the
> player.
> 
> But I can't find a way to set banshee up to not do any conversions of
> the files it is transferring to the MP3 device.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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A. James Lewis
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