[Novalug] strange COWON iAudio 7 capacity limit

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Tue Dec 9 15:52:49 EST 2008


Side note ...

I find that if you are on Ubuntu, adding the medibuntu repo will get you the
newer version that generally has nicer features.

Ken

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 15:50, Maxwell Spangler <
maxpublic08@maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:43 -0500, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote:
> > Mackenzie wrote:
> > > Yeah, VFAT is not happy when filenames have question marks in them.  I
> > > run into that one a lot with my iAudio.
> >
> > Aha! That's certainly a problem--it won't let me copy a file with
> > question marks in the name although it's fine copying other files from
> > the same folder. Don't know yet if that's all of the problem, but it's
> > certainly a showstopper all by itself.
>
> For future benefit you might want to look into using Amarok as a music
> player, podcast manager and ipod/mp3/pmp manager.  It lets you queue up
> files to be copied to your media player device with or without your
> device being connected at that moment.  When it does copy files, it uses
> a variety of user configurable options to control where things are put,
> how they are renamed, etc.
>
> I used it with my Archos 605 Wifi and it's been very, very good to me.
> Another case of something on Linux feeling superior to what I've seen on
> Windows or Mac.
>
> --
> Maxwell Spangler
> Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
>
>
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