New toy goodness…
I bought my wife a new toy yesterday. She’s training to run a marathon and needed music to run to. She had been trying to use my iPod but they don’t take well to running and they tend to freeze after a while. They are hard drive based after all and tend to crash when subjected to shocks for too long. I went out and found one of the new Rio Chiba 256 mp3 players. It was perfect for her use. It’s solid-state so skipping isn’t a problem and it only weighs a couple of ounces. It’s main drawback is that it’s only 256MB but that’s still 4-5hours of music so it should be okay. It can take an expansion SDD card up to 512MB for 768MB total, but those are still a bit expensive.
A nice thing about it is it’s supported by iTunes under Mac OS X so you can drag-and-drop just like my iPod. I hooked it up to load some music and couldn’t get anything to copy over. I’d drag songs and they wouldn’t go. I started to get pissed. I finally gave in after an hour and called support. Don’t get me started about outsourcing support to India, I could hardly understand the guy. He put me on hold to talk to someone and came back and said I was probably trying to copy AAC files. I checked and sure enough, I was. I tried an MP3 and it copied over no problem. The problem with this is my wife is not going to be able to use music downloaded from Apple’s music store. Damnit. I can work around that but it’s a big pain in the ass.
Now if I could figure out how to get it to mount in Linux I’d be set. I’ll keep trying.
: Gogos – We’ve Got the Beat