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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Dumb question? Mac and the Archos?Re: Dumb question? Mac and the Archos?
From: Peter Ennis <bengtritover_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:11:19 +0100 I use my FMR with both, and have no issues. I use an ATEN PCMCIA USB2 adaptor, which sometimes the Mac doesn't like, but 1.1 works fine except when transferring large amounts of data. The only drawback I have found is that iTunes is not as good at managing tags as MusicMatch - but I use Virtual PC to get around that :-) > From: Adam Zolkover <wadam_at_sbcglobal.net> > Reply-To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:01:59 -0500 > To: rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se > Subject: Re: Dumb question? Mac and the Archos? > > O, don't expect issues with the tags. I have a mac and an FMR and it > works great. I have about 11gb of music on my FMR and all the tags are > perfect. The only thing I can tell you to expect is slow transfer > times. Not only is USB 1.1 slow, but sometimes OS X is kind of slow > reading and writing to FAT32. Someone posted earlier that it works > better with mac than with pc, though, and having used both, overall I'm > inclined to agree. > > Adam. > > On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 03:07 PM, Paul van der Heu wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:19:50 -0700, Gvillo, Mike wrote: >> >>> So I'm considering moving to Mac, the Archos is FAT32 formatted, >>> does it work with a Mac? >> >> Sure, I do know however that as with everything else the mac does MP3 >> tags it's own way, which is not always the way the rest of the world >> works.. Expect issues with tags.. >> >> > > ________________________________ > http://wadam.blogspot.com > > Received on 2003-09-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |