Turn a flash drive into an mp3 player

[steve_s]

What do you think?

[I searched but all i get are ideas about making a bootable flash drive.]

If you got a pair of headphones that were usb headphones, what else? Move software from an mp3 player over to the flash drive? Or has puppy got something developed that would work?

[aarf]

"What do you think?"
i thing you should read this post

[steve_s]

"What do you think?"
i thing you should read this post

So that's a 'no'?

[aarf]

"What do you think?"
i thing you should read this post

So that's a 'no'?

your flash drives must be different to mine. mine dont have a place to plug headphones into.

[steve_s]

"What do you think?"
i thing you should read this post

So that's a 'no'?

your flash drives must be different to mine. mine dont have a place to plug headphones into.

Post number one, usb headphones? No?

[aarf]

So that's a 'no'?

your flash drives must be different to mine. mine dont have a place to plug headphones into.

Post number one, usb headphones? No?

got an image?

[steve_s]

I know for the most part the answer is a 'no.' But I just know if there is a way, a puppy person has figured it out, so I thought i'd ask.

Images here. Don't own one but there seem to be many variations.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Here is the big hurdle...
USB drives are powered thru the Universal Serial Bus...
Mp3 players are powered by a battery, sometimes recharged thru the USB..
So even if you solve the headphone dilemma...

For what it is worth, you can boot Puppy from a mp3 player...

[p310don]

NO

AKAIK, an MP3 player is a flash drive and a small "CPU" that interprets the mp3 files into analogue music out of the headphone jack.

A flash drive is missing that essential link in the chain that makes the data in analogue sound.

Paul

[darkcity]

step 1)

simply appli
a Rasberry Pi

to your usb stick.

step 2)

simply made a version of Puppy that

runs on ARM cpu

[PANZERKOPF]

What do you think?

That is impossible.
A flash drive is just data storage whereas mp3 player has also decoder, DAC, amplifier, some microcontroller with service program and many other stuffs.

[p310don]

I guess as a similar extension to this idea, maybe possible, but still unlikely challenge, would be to use a flash drive as extra storage for an mp3 player.

For some mp3 players that might be possible, for many of the "dumber" ones, I doubt it.

[steve_s]

Just gettin' the Puppy'ians thinking, which always produces some cool results!

Thanks for the feedback, all!

[connorfranciswillcocks]

I think the easiest way is to find some sort of mp3 player with a usb input that way you can plug your usb in and play songs from there.

the usb headphones are good but how will the usb be powered, i guess you could have a small power supply attached to the headphones, but then its making the software on the usb.

Mp3 players are cheap these days and you can get a 8gb for less then £10 so best to stick with that imo

[saintless]

Flash drive + no extra parts + no efforts = MP3 Player is impossible.
Flash drive + extra parts + efforts = MP3 player is possible.

Read here for much efforts how to do it:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/19/how- ... p3-player/
http://forums.techguy.org/do-yourself-p ... layer.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 6052652869

Buy this with no efforts at all. It needs only an adapter and a flash drive to work:
Building block MP3 player
Adapter from here:
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/sd-card ... apter.html

The question is is it worth the efforts and the money to do it?