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Linux Desktop Hacks
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Linux Desktop Hacks

by Nicholas Petreley, Jono Bacon
March 2005
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Sync Your iRiver with Linux #98
Chapter 11, Hardware
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A number of these personal music players are on the market, but one of the
most intriguing is the iRiver series. Not only do these little boxes pack in
upward of 40GB of storage, but they also support a variety of different
codecs beyond plain MP3. Some of you might be aware that encoding MP3
is actually a legally foggy area, as the codec was created and licensed by
Fraunhoffer, and many free encoders are not properly licensed. A free MP3
alternative called Ogg Vorbis exists that promises both higher quality and
smaller file size. This format is gaining in popularity, and the iRiver, unlike
the iPod, supports it out of the box.
To get songs on your iRiver, you need to rip your CDs to get the tracks onto
the hard disk of your Linux machine, encode them as MP3 or Ogg Vorbis,
and then upload them to the iRiver via USB. Optionally, you can then build
the iRiver internal database for your MP3s (you cannot use the database for
Ogg files). The iRiver IHP series of players use a special internal database
that stores all the details of your song titles, albums, genres, and other infor-
mation. One issue to bear in mind is that the iRiver lacks support of Ogg
Vorbis tags. This means Ogg metadata will not be included in the database.
If you want to use ID tags (these tags store information about the artist,
album, track number, and so on), you need ...
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