Olympus digital recorder on USB, pmount, wma_to_ogg (Was: Re: USB detection)

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:03 +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:36 am, Tim Raats wrote:
> > Do you have /dev/sda1 ?
> >
> > Do the follow:
> > sudo mkdir /media/stick
> > sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/stick
> >
> > The mount line mounts you usb stick.
> 
> Sorry, my bad.  It isn't a stick, though I did try your idea to 
> see if it worked.  It didn't <sob>.  Asked me for filesystem 
> type.

Don't use 'mount', but instead use 'pmount' (see "man pmount" for
details) without 'sudo'.  To unmount, use 'pumount'.  On the System -->
Preferences --> Removable drives and media dialog, you'll find settings
for auto-mounting of USB media.  The drive should show up in the
'Computer' location of Nautilus if things are working correctly, and
should also open a browser on it if you set that.

> Thought this might be helpful:
>  # lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07b4:020d Olympus Optical Co., Ltd Digital 
> Voice Recorder VN-240PC
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc.
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> 
> It's data on the voice recorder (.wav files) I want to find.

I have the Olympus DM-10, and it works just fine.  I can drag .wma files
off of it onto the desktop, and vice versa.  It will not, however, allow
me to put music files into the music folder and play them.  Apparently,
it requires a special tool to generate it's index.

The recorder has several audio quality settings.  On the lowest setting,
it uses a proprietary file format that I am unable to convert or play
back on the computer.  The medium and high quality settings create .wma
files, which can be played by 'mplayer', or converted to .ogg using
'mplayer' and 'oggenc'.  A script for doing so is attached.

-- 
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>
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