The FUZE does not (since firmware 1.2.26/2.2.26) support ID3v2.4. But it does support ID3v2.3 and as it appears not only in ISO-8859-1 encoding but also in UTF-16. Genres The FUZE seems to understand only a few Genres by ID which are listed in the firmware file:Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Dance, Disco, Funk, Grunge, Hip-Hop, Jazz,… Read More: ID3 tagging & Album Art on the FUZE »
The Sansa differentiates between songs transferred via MTP mode and those transferred via MSC mode. The demo songs are all in the MTP area and thus you won’t see them when looking at the device in MSC mode. But it is possible, to mount the device in MTP mode also. You just have to install… Read More: SanDisk Sansa MTP mode »
To work with the FUSE in Rhythmbox, you have two choices: MTP mode or MSC mode. The MTP mode is the Media Transfer Protocol which the Windows Media Player uses. There’s a plugin for Rhythmbox which lets the player show up and you are able to manage the player from there. The MSC mode is… Read More: Rhythmbox and Sansa »
The Sansa is very picky about what file to play and what not. The demo video has the following format: Encoding According to this post the Any Video Converter should be able to convert videos for the FUZE. The Settings are:
The Sansa’s have different features for different countries/regions. E.g. the Japanese radio frequencies ranging from 76 to 90 MHz are partly used for Police radio and thus it is not allowed to tune to these forbidden frequencies. SanDisk achieved this by removing the Japan region from the Radio region selector. In European models of the… Read More: SanDisk Sansa Feature Bits »
Firebug is a useful Firefox extension to debug JavaScript and more. To not raise error messages on browsers without Firebug, there’s a small script called firebugx.js, which creates emptyfunctions. Sascha Hameister has optimized this script a little bit and it now looks like this: You might also want to use Firebug Lite.
To set your favorite LAF in all Java apps, you can create a file swing.properties in your jre/lib folder with following contents: You can also set the _JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable to the following (or just specify these parameters upon the java-call): From now on you will see NimbusLookAndFeel in all Java applications… Read More: LookAndFeel in ALL apps »
At work we have the Kerio Mailserver Appliance for VMware which is based on Fedora Core 6. Since they use the ugly yum, I decided to install apt-rpm. I’m still missing something like aptitude, but it is okay now. apt-rpm expects some *.list files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory – as does the Ubuntu apt-get. Repositories… Read More: apt-rpm »
To burn/print lightscribe media under Linux, you need two things: Installing 4L No drive detected If 4L-gui doesn’t detect any drive, try running it from a console window. If you see the following error message: The described library is missing (as with Karmic Koala). Either try finding it in aptitude or do the following: This… Read More: LightScribe in Linux »