After countless efforts to make my Sony NWZ-A816 work the way I wanted, I decided its time for an alternative. I do like the Sony devices for their quality but they want me to use WMP to sync my music which I am not willing to do and never will. What’s worse, is there is no way to create a playlist from the device.
So, goodbye Sony! and I found something that states in the spec that it supports Linux.
The D2+ is an anniversary gift from my wife and is looking good so far..Here are my findings
- The device mounts in MSC or MTP mode
- I could get album art support with the image in the album folder. I used cover.jpg for the name
- Amarok 2/Songbird/Rhythmbox did not detect it though. Can’t say anything about it right now. Need to test more
- Encoded videos using Avidemux and they play fine. I had created a custom config based on the specs. Basically I used the following
Video - Xvid4, 29.970fps, 320x240
Audio - MP3(Lame), 128kbps, 44100Hz
Container: AVI
ToDo
How to create Playlists?
Sync with Local collection
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