but does any of these USB jukebox players work with linux?
erik
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:34:42PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> > Ken Weingold wrote:
> > >
> > > Not sure now much it is, but I have something great made by Genica.
> > > It looks like a discman, but plays audio CDs as well as CDR/CDRW's
> > > with MP3's, so your limit is 650 megs. Great search features, too.
> > > And here's the kicker: it's $100. 50 second anti-shock - and it
> > > works.
> >
> > Any idea on what the availability of these things are? As in, do you know
> > what, if any, retail-type stores might carry these? Or are they mail-order
> > only? I looked around on Genica's web site but found nothing on how to
> > actually buy one.
>
> Radio Shit has one advertised in their current catalog (supposedly 'RCA"
> made, but who -really- makes it is another question -- even the old
> 'minimus11' speakers, the only decent thing R/S has ever made now are
> supposedly made by RCA). Grab a CueCat while you're there for grins.
> Availability is another question: the Radio Shit drone insisted they
> had no such thing and MP3's wouldn't work on CD's because "they come
> on chips!" or something.... when I pointed it out to him in the
> catalog, he insisted they not only didn't have one, they wouldn't
> carry it. Perhaps you won't have such a fool at your local Radio
> Shit.
>
> Should be able to get one at any decent or cheap stereo store, in other
> words.
>
> (Though I love my pjbox.... More expensive, but a LOT smaller: it fits
> into my shirt pocket and I get 4G and ten hours worth of music out of
> it... Now I just need to find out how hard it is to upgrade the
> drive... :))
>
> --
> CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -n
> printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ =
> unpack
> 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; }
> /\.([^.]+)/g;
>
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