[LINK] iRiver woes

Alan L Tyree alan at austlii.edu.au
Tue Apr 10 11:56:32 AEST 2007


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:36:56 +1000
"Pilcher, Fred" <Fred.Pilcher at act.gov.au> wrote:

> Daughter #2 wanted, and got, an iRiver Clix for her birthday last
> week, and an astoundingly lovely little machine it is. But the rub is
> that it ONLY works under Windows. I expected that, like other devices
> including her iPod, or other daughter's iRiver device, it'd simply be
> recognised as a USB disk. Not so. No dice. It seems to recognise it
> as a camera, and then falls over when I try to look inside it.
> 
> That irks me, of course, but what irks me more is that there's no
> warning. Sure, it says that it's designed for Windows, but it doesn't
> say that it's specifically designed NOT to run under anything else.
> 
> It uses Windows Media Player 11 to sync, and comes with a CD (which,
> before it will install under Windows, goes off and checks that your
> copy is kosher), but which won't even consider installing under wine.
> 
> One of the things that attracted me to iRiver devices in the first
> place was that, as I understood it, they actually run Linux, and
> certainly support Ogg Vorbis, but this seems particularly nasty.
> 
> I've e-mailed the Australian distributor who may or may not offer me
> a refund, but daughter doesn't want me to return it - she loves it.
> 
> So - a) beware, and b) any suggestions?

Run under an emulator? I have had good luck with qemu, but my demands
are slight - only running certain text CDs.
Alan

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Fred 
>   
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