Eiger Labs F10 & F20 MPMAN portable MP3 players GUI Project


OVERVIEW:

This is one of my first projects for the Linux Open Source community. I am an Old Time Radio fan. That is listening to shows from what is called the Golden Age of Radio (i.e. 1920-1950). It is becoming popular to encode these shows with the mp3 format for storage and to file them away on cdroms. There is a new gadget on the market from several manufactures that are portable mp3 players. They contain no moving parts. The MPMAN from Eiger Labs is one such player. It currently comes in two models. The F10 and the new F20. This GUI software will support the F10 and the F20.

This software consists of two parts: two backend programs and a front end program. I have developed the front end program which is a GUI written with lesstif. The backend programs were developed by the Snowblind Alliance.

I have been told that the F10 and F20 Eiger Lab units are similar to units sold elsewhere in the world. These could be labeled as Schneider or Saehan. If anyone gets these to work this software then please let me know.

Now on to the good stuff.
 
 

THE PLAYERS:


 
 

THE GUI:

SOFTWARE:

To run this software you will need to download the software specified under the software section of the Resources section. It contains the frontend software and the two backend programs. Read the README file for details on how to compile, install, and run  the software. The software does require Lesstif to compile the GUI software. This software should be available on your distribution. If not then get the software from the web page listed in the resources section. The F20 will require a parallel port of the type EPP (Bi-directional).

RESOURCES:

    Web Pages

    Software

    Mail Lists

    Email Addresses

KUDOS:

SourceForge Thanks to the people at SourceForge for the donation of this web page.

VA Linux Thanks also to VA Linux Systems for sponsoring SourceForge.

Kudos go to the Snowblind Alliance for hacking and debugging the backend programs. This was truly a monumental work. Nice job guys.



Any questions should be directed to:

Bruce Forsberg
forsberg@tns.net