Portable Audio & Video Player Linux Compatibility: NextCom

Compatibility guides about Linux and portable digital audio/music players manufactured by NextCom SunDrive. Reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the general resources section at the bottom, containing links to utilities (mostly available under GPL), community efforts, HOWTOs and FAQs. Do you have written an installation or compatibility report yourself? Please submit a new entry.

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Applications

SunDrive

The SunDrive by NextCom is an all-in-one device about the size of a magic-marker pen, allows users to copy or exchange any computer files and MP3 files between our UltraSPARC-based laptops and Sun workstations running Solaris 8 or 9 plus any Intel-based system running Linux, Windows XP, 2000 or Me and Macintosh systems with USB support. This device is also a high fidelity MP3 player including dual earphones.

Resources

• back to Linux with mobile music players survey
• manufacturer site: NextCom
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• A Survey of Debian GNU/Linux Packages for Portable Audio and Video Players
• Linux Applications for Portable Music and Video Players
• free music
• free eBooks and AudioBooks
• do-it-yourself portable music and video player upgrading, repairing and modding
• FCC ID: unknown
• A list of hardware , from Portable Audio Players, to PDAs, to mobile (cell) phones to DVD players, that can play Ogg Vorbis files.
• file conversions for portable media players: Ogg Vorbis, MP3s, video