I am warning you ahead that some of this may be braindead simple or trivial for some of you but I am still sending this because many of you will benefit by this mail.
Here is what I did with my portable Sandisk mp3 player. I have a strange problem. I am a devout Hindu and I want to listen to Vedic chants every morning. But now I live in a place far away from my office. So I wanted a way to listen to these slokas/mantras from my home. Then I remembered that I had an old Sandisk pocket size mp3 player lying idle with me. I connected it to my USB port and OpenBSD recognized as: umass0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "SanDisk SDMX1 MP3 Player" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SanDisk, SDMX1 MP3 Player, 1.13> SCSI0 0/direct removable sd0: 486MB, 512 bytes/sec, 995328 sec total No, this was not the first time. There was something wrong with my hub. And I had to try it few times. Anyway once I got this far, I created an fdisk partition. # fdisk -e sd0 I created a FAT32 file system on it(ID 06). Then disklabel would still give a weird output. I expected to see sd0i as is the case with the 0B file system ID. First time I got it wrong. The player did not recognize my file system. Then I got it right with this command. # newfs_msdos /dev/sd0c Now disklabel behaves itself. ;) Mount it with # mount /dev/sd0i /mnt Copy all the mp3 files. I converted to mp3 from flash videos using $ ffmpeg -i foo.flv foo.mp3 Copy files to mp3 player. # cp *mp3 /mnt # cd # umount /mnt Disconnect and enjoy. ;) When I ran into the format issue wikipedia helped and told me what file system format I am supposed to use in mp3 players. This morning when I listened to my Vedic chants I thought: "Can't I just concatenate the three mantras rudram, chamakam and purushasuktam mp3 files?" That is what I did just now. $ mp3cat rudram.mp3 chamakam.mp3 purushasuktam.mp3 --output=prayer.mp3 Now I can pray during my long town bus journey from home to office in Chennai. ;) Hopefully these tips will help some of you. Thanks to OpenBSD and its great developers! Ever yours, -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com
