Hello all, I've created this group to host general discussions regarding the RCA Lyra MP3 player. It will hopefully serve as an excellent place to share ideas...
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 20, 2000 7:22 pm
There has been some interest on discovering what would be needed to write a replacement .exe for the Lyra to play standard MP3 files. To first find out what...
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Les Bessant
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Mar 20, 2000 8:07 pm
"jeff sauer" <jsaue-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/rca-lyra-mp3/?start=1 ... device. ... Excellent idea - thanks. Les...
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Randy Holcomb
randy_holcomb@...
Mar 21, 2000 1:48 am
The Lyra is also using a Burr-Brown PCM1725U DAC: http://www.burr-brown.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/BurrBrown.woa/wa/displayPr oductFolder?productName=PCM1725...
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 21, 2000 2:41 pm
Hello All, Thanks for the excellent research. I've been adding to the Links page on the EGroup board to keep track of everything we find. Jeff...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 21, 2000 2:42 pm
Great group idea. I am a unix perl programmer, so I don't think I can offer much in the way of writing code for such an esoteric device as the Lyra. I can get...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 21, 2000 2:51 pm
I've noticed on the CF card there exists a file caled "SCREEN.BIT" My guess is that this might be the "splash screen" that you see when you power on the Lyra....
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Richard P. Talley
talley@...
Mar 21, 2000 8:39 pm
... you power on the Lyra. I'm sure you're right. I've loaded from Music Match and I get a MM splash screen. I tried changing the .bit file extension to .bmp...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 21, 2000 9:23 pm
Richard: Thanks for the info on the MM spash screen. That's a start! I wouldn't want to get rid of it, but it might be fun to customize it. :) Do you still...
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Randy Holcomb
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Mar 22, 2000 12:38 am
I think you'll find the RCA aplash screen is in the control ROM in the NEC uP. When I was futzing with my IBM Microdrive and moving code and songs to it and...
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Tony Jolley
adjolley@...
Mar 22, 2000 1:04 am
Is that a downloadable version of Music Match? I'd like to try something other than Real Juke "richard p. talley" <talle-@...> wrote: original...
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Tony Jolley
adjolley@...
Mar 22, 2000 1:27 am
Anyone ever see one of these before? http://www.fujitsumedia.com/pdfs/IDE.PDF It's a compact flash card at one end and an IDE connector at the other. When I...
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Sam Thomas
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Mar 22, 2000 1:49 am
Never heard of this device before, but I do have a suggestion... why not get an Iomega Clik drive? It can copy files from the iomega clik disks... they're 40mb...
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Sam Thomas
mindlurker@...
Mar 22, 2000 7:48 am
I figured out how the bitfiles work and wrote a simple visual basic viewer program for it. Maybe I'll continue work on it and write an editor for it... Right...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 22, 2000 2:27 pm
Hi Sam: I checked out the Iomega page and it looks like the Clik system is a system for storing data on the go with laptops and digicams. The system they offer...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 22, 2000 2:34 pm
Sam: That's excellent work! We're on our way to releasing a full blown Splash Screen Editor for the Lyra. Well, Sam is anyway. :) We might be able to make...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 22, 2000 2:39 pm
Randy: So I take it then that that's the best luck you had with the Microdrive? I've seen 64M CF retail for about $199. Has anyone found a cheap source for...
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Florian Schulz
florian_schulz@...
Mar 22, 2000 3:53 pm
"scott redd" <red-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/rca-lyra-mp3/?start=16 ... Hello, I am a new member of the list and have...
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 22, 2000 4:18 pm
Sam, you 'da man! This is great! I've uploaded the utility to the "vault" on www.egroups.com. I also placed the standard .bit file there as well. See ya, ...
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 22, 2000 4:23 pm
Does anyone know the .dll used by the RJ and MM players? Do you think it would be possible to discover the API? This would possible allow us to write our own...
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 22, 2000 4:27 pm
Sorry... hit send to soon... Looking in the MM directory under plugins, I see the Lyra folder with the following .dlls: cfscsi.dll mmlenc.dll portdev.dll If I...
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Frank Herberg
herberg@...
Mar 22, 2000 4:45 pm
Hi all, great idea to install this group! Hopefully, the lyra gets better and better with our efforts. My particular problem is that there aren't any win2k...
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Sam Thomas
mindlurker@...
Mar 22, 2000 4:49 pm
You requested a binary... I compiled one and included it, also included a "screen.bit" from Musicmatch (the same one provided in an earlier post). I renamed...
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Richard P. Talley
talley@...
Mar 22, 2000 6:12 pm
"tony jolley" <adjolle-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/rca-lyra-mp3/?start=11 ... Yes, the current downloadable version of...
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Richard P. Talley
talley@...
Mar 22, 2000 6:21 pm
... If you still want this I'll post it, but I think it has been overtaken by greater minds who have figured out how it works and come up with ways to write to...
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Scott Redd
redd@...
Mar 22, 2000 7:17 pm
Sam: Awesome! Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I can hardly wait to see a simple editor. Keep up the good work! Thanks to all who posted the various...
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Randy Holcomb
randy_holcomb@...
Mar 23, 2000 1:15 am
... Microdrive? ... Yep. I'll do some more playing around; but since the uP has a control store it might be impossible to use just a Microdrive alone....
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Randy Holcomb
randy_holcomb@...
Mar 23, 2000 1:20 am
I haven't tried this yet with W2K-I'm still fighting other W2K problems....
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Jeff Sauer
jsauer@...
Mar 23, 2000 3:13 am
Hi everyone, I took Sam's excellent work and extended it to be able to read and write .bmps. You can now convert existing .bit files into .bmp files, edit it,...
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Frank Herberg
herberg@...
Mar 23, 2000 9:14 am
Thanks, man! This is _very_ usefull. I even converted pictures to 2 color bitmaps and converted them into .bit. It looks great on the lyra. It's a pitty that...
