[Gllug] Sony Net MD

[Jim Bailey]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:18:01PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 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.

Very Sony, very happy to build on the work of others with their new
consumer electronics kernel but wouldn't know how to share if their
grasping little corporate hearts depended on it.

I put Sony in the same category as Apple making all the right noises but
non of the right gestures.

Peace Jim


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