(I crosspost it here from the forums because I have no answers there...) Hi, I'm considering buying this mp3 player: http://www.cowonamerica.com/products/iaudio/u5/#specs
What I don't understand, is if it's Gentoo-friendly. Cowon x5 and i7 units, apart from being high quality players, used to be very Linux-friendly AFAIK, and they even nicely support Ogg Vorbis audio. However the x5 is discontinued and the i7 looks a bit too costly for me. The u5 seems nice, unfortunately it doesn't support Ogg, but apart from it looks cool. However it says: Supports Windows Media DRM 10, MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) [...] USB Data Transfer Support for MAC OS (9.X, 10.X) and Linux (v2.2 and higher) >From the PDF manual it seems to be "nice", in the meaning that you can just drag-and-drop mp3 files like on a USB drive, and it will play them. But if it's so, why it talks about MTP and Windows DRM (brrr!) ? Basically, I don't want to find myself with an Ipod-like brick where I can copy files on, but won't play them. Is some Gentooer using the iAudio u5? What do you advise me to look for in understanding this issue? Thanks, m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
