[ale] archos jukebox multimedia 20

[Robert L. Harris]

I've got the Studio 10.  I believe the multimedi won't play rockbox
hacks because of a redesign of the hardware and archos isn't helping.
Oggs won't work on the Studio10 because they use a hardware MP3 decoder
and the processor isn't good enough to play oggs without much skip, etc.
The multimedia I don't know about on that.

I love my Studio10.  Plugs right into my Linux box as a USB Mass storage
device and I can rsync music on/off, put any files I want on it, etc.

Robert

Thus spake Michael D. Hirsch (mhirsch at nubridges.com):

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