[ale] archos jukebox multimedia 20

[Michael D. Hirsch]

Charles is having trouble posting to the list and asked me to forward this 
for him.

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> From: Charles Shapiro <charles.shapiro at numethods.com>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: archos jukebox  multimedia 20
> Date: 25 Apr 2003 09:32:37 -0400
> 
> The Archos Multimedia Jukebox 20 ( http://www.archos.com/ ) does not
> (yet) work with rockbox ( http://rockbox.haxx.se/ ), alas. 
> 
> But it does play nicely with linux. Near's I can tell it's straight usb
> mass storage, and it works fine with a Debian 'Woody' and a 2.4.20
> kernel compiled to include the usb mass storage drivers. To copy files
> back and forth, you plug it into the usb port, turn it on, and look for
> the scsi device assigned to it in the messages to the console (or in the
> logs, I reckon).  Then you mount that to a mount directory: "mount -t
> vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/archos". After that, you can copy files and even
> edit playlists, which turn out to be simple text files full of filenames
> with tolerance for unix '\n' line endings as well as the '\r\n' line
> endings written by the internal software.
> 
> More better even, last night I successfully did a firmware upgrade.
> After looking at the directions carefully, I concluded that they'd done
> things the Right Way. It looked like I just needed to copy the upgrade
> file to the archos hard drive's root, then choose 'upgrade' from the
> internal menus. Sure enough, that worked like a champ, and I'm now
> running v 1.2.2 of the firmware instead of the 1.1.0 on the device when
> I got it.  You can download upgrades from the archos site. Version
> 1.2.2  is dated April 15, and the distro even comes with a changes list
> that documents every fix from 1.0.0 on. New features include 'shuffle'
> mode when playing music, a disk drive activity indicator, and a greatly
> improved battery status display. They even have themes on the tiny 1" x
> 2" screen now!
> 
> Who knows, maybe someday it'll play oggs.  
> 
> Quite a change from the evil Cybiko, rife with undocumented interfaces
> and windows-only closed code.
> 
> -- CHS
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