Introduction How to Use Different Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Extra Resources

MP3 Players on Linux

Matthew Treinish

LUG@GT

September 9, 2009

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Extra Resources Outline

1 Introduction Types of MP3 Players Popular MP3 Players

2 How to Use Different Players Generic Flash Devices Apple iPod Microsoft Zune Creative Players

3 Put FOSS on your MP3 player

4 Extra Resources

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Types of MP3 Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Popular MP3 Players Extra Resources Types of MP3 Players

Some different types of MP3 players available: Generic Flash Players: Basic devices with a typically small data capacity Relatively cheap and Operating Systems treat as a flash drive Normally don’t have screens or if they do are small monochrome LCDs Hard Drive Players Also known as Digital Jukeboxes Largest capacity of all MP3 devices Normally contains a database to keep track of all the data on the device Video/Audio Flash Players Similar to the generic flash players but they have bigger color screens for video playback Also, often have databases to organize content

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Types of MP3 Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Popular MP3 Players Extra Resources Types of MP3 Players

Some different types of MP3 players available: Generic Flash Players: Basic devices with a typically small data capacity Relatively cheap and Operating Systems treat as a flash drive Normally don’t have screens or if they do are small monochrome LCDs Hard Drive Players Also known as Digital Jukeboxes Largest capacity of all MP3 devices Normally contains a database to keep track of all the data on the device Video/Audio Flash Players Similar to the generic flash players but they have bigger color screens for video playback Also, often have databases to organize content

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Types of MP3 Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Popular MP3 Players Extra Resources Types of MP3 Players

Some different types of MP3 players available: Generic Flash Players: Basic devices with a typically small data capacity Relatively cheap and Operating Systems treat as a flash drive Normally don’t have screens or if they do are small monochrome LCDs Hard Drive Players Also known as Digital Jukeboxes Largest capacity of all MP3 devices Normally contains a database to keep track of all the data on the device Video/Audio Flash Players Similar to the generic flash players but they have bigger color screens for video playback Also, often have databases to organize content

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Types of MP3 Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Popular MP3 Players Extra Resources Popular MP3 Players

Generic Flash Player: iPod Shuffle Creative Muvo Sandisk Players Hard drive players Apple iPod Classic and previous models Microsoft Zune 30,80,120 Certain Creative ZEN Models Archos Jukebox Player Video/Audio Flash Players iPod nano Microsoft Zune 4,8,16,HD Newer Creative ZEN models

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction Generic Flash Devices How to Use Different Players Apple iPod Put FOSS on your MP3 player Microsoft Zune Extra Resources Creative Players Generic Flash Devices

Simple devices which can normally be dealt with a file manager However if you are too lazy to deal with this you can use a tool which will sync your collection for you; including: amaroK Exaile Songbird Listen All of these tools organize you music into a database and then give you the ability to sync the whole collection or just a subset of it with you various MP3 players.

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction Generic Flash Devices How to Use Different Players Apple iPod Put FOSS on your MP3 player Microsoft Zune Extra Resources Creative Players Apple iPod

Apple is evil! Luckily FOSS is there and provides salvation Software written using libgpod is needed to sync songs with iPod gtkpod is the package normally bundeled with libgpod and is written by the same group Many Media player integrate libgpod including: amarok Songbird (with a plugin) Exaile Rythmbox

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction Generic Flash Devices How to Use Different Players Apple iPod Put FOSS on your MP3 player Microsoft Zune Extra Resources Creative Players Microsoft Zune

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Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction Generic Flash Devices How to Use Different Players Apple iPod Put FOSS on your MP3 player Microsoft Zune Extra Resources Creative Players Creative Players

Creative make a number of devices covering the spectrum of different types of MP3 players sold They have two current lines of MP3 players Creative ZEN Very large model line Most have large screens and can play video Synchronization is possible using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) which most of the synchronization programs can use Creative MuVo Basically a flash drive with a headphone jack Can be synced the same way as any of the other generic flash players

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction Generic Flash Devices How to Use Different Players Apple iPod Put FOSS on your MP3 player Microsoft Zune Extra Resources Creative Players Creative Players

Creative make a number of devices covering the spectrum of different types of MP3 players sold They have two current lines of MP3 players Creative ZEN Very large model line Most have large screens and can play video Synchronization is possible using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) which most of the synchronization programs can use Creative MuVo Basically a flash drive with a headphone jack Can be synced the same way as any of the other generic flash players

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Extra Resources RockBox

Rockbox is a powerful open source firmware It adds more control over output and more input formats Compatible with a large number of devices

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux Introduction How to Use Different Players Put FOSS on your MP3 player Extra Resources Extra Resources

Database of MP3 players and their linux compatibility http://www.tuxmobile.org/portable_players.html Official libgpod website http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod/ Official Rockbox Website http://www.rockbox.org

Matthew Treinish MP3 Players on Linux