[Gllug] Sony Net MD

[Richard Turner]

>On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 12:39:39PM +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
>> Does anyone have any idea whether it's possible to get Linux to talk
to >my
>> Net MD Walkman over its USB interface?  I've just decided to try to
>> permanently and completely rid myself of Windows, and that's one of
the
>> things I'm going to miss if Linux won't support it.
>
>There's software at:
>
>http://pdr.cx/projects/gnetmd/main/
>
>Let me know if you have any problems with it.
>
>As Grzegorz said, to be able to download songs to the device, you need
both
>the ATRAC codec and to be able to reverse engineer the MagicGate
>authentication scheme, so currently that is still not supported by
gnetmd.
>Sony don't release drivers for anything besides Windows unfortunately,
and
>when you ask for technical details from them, they just tell you that
all
>you get is the manual.
>
>HTH,
>Pete
>-- 
>Pete Ryland
>http://pdr.cx/

Thanks for that Pete, I'll have a look at that URL as soon as I can.
Shame about the music, but I'm sure that a bright spark somewhere will
reverse engineer the MagicGate stuff eventually.

Somehow I'm not surprised that Sony aren't very helpful!

Cheers,

Richard.


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