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Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release fixes some bugs and incompatibilities with recent libkarma changes and adds two options to the on-line-options pseudofile. Must be compiled with libkarma-0.1.0-hg154 or later.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This release provides several improvements, bug fixes and new functionalities.

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release fixes some bugs, adds an option for a directory-structured presentation of playlists and provides a psudo-file to allow changing some options at run-time (i.e., without need to unmount and remount the filesystem).

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This release provides several improvements, bug fixes and new functionalities.

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release adds direct tune upload support with properties derived from tags, along with other improvements and bug fixes.

Libkarma-0.0.5-hg118 or later is needed to support some of the new functionalities.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This release re-implements fdb (file path DB) and adds support for dertermining full-file and/or tag-based properties, without having access to the full original file. This version (or later) is needed to support some of the new functionalities of lkarmafs-0.1.9.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release provides several improvements, bug fixes and new functionalities.

Libkarma-0.0.5 or later is needed to support some of the new functionalities.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This release provides several improvements, bug fixes and new functionalities. It is needed by the newest lkarmafs release (0.1.8).

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This release provides complete smalldb read/write support, adds "karma-sharp" to support the Banshee music player, provides improved Makefiles/Jamfiles and improves/fixes other minor issues.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release (optionally) enables the new libkarma smalldb reading support, implements dummy names for undefined properties and provides an alternative format for the -E option to allow /etc/fstab mounting. Libkarma-0.0.4-hg42 or later is needed to support dummy names and smalldb reading.... read more

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This first patch release after libkarma-0.0.4 adds support for much faster "smalldb" read/write and fixes AND-OR search issues to support missing properties search. This is needed (by lkarmafs) to assign dummy names to unknown properties or property values.

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma ... read more

OMFS is the filesystem used internally by the Rio Karma. Following omfs-0.5.7, 0.5.8 and 0.6.0, omfs-0.6.1 is the first release providing fully correct (we hope ;) read/write/delete support. It definitively allows lkarmafs to work properly with both Rio Karma interfaces, USB and Ethernet.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=175124

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release fixes several bugs related with setting the user codeset and updates the -H option and the README file to explain how to work with the new mounted-disk (USB/OMFS) interface

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Fuse has been nominated Project of the Month (April, 2006). In the interview to the authors, published at SF, lkarmafs is cited as one of the "most intersting FUSE-based filesystems" ;)

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* What are a couple of notable examples of how people are using your software?

Just a random sample of the more interesting FUSE-based filesystems:

EncFS; SMB for FUSE; GMailFS; SSHFS; NTFSMount; HTTP-FUSE KNOPPIX; WikipediaFS; FlickrFS; Lkarmafs.... read more

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This is the first official release whith support for the mounted karma disk (USB/OMFS) interface. See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

OMFS is the filesystem used internally by the Rio Karma. Together with 0.5.5, this version fixes a problem with overflows in readdir usage by libc, adds part of truncate system call and fixes a BUG_ON in omfs_delete_inode.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=175124

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This prerelease version fixes some bugs related with the support for the mounted karma disk (USB/OMFS) interface.

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084&release_id=408515

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This prerelease version adds almost complete support for the mounted karma disk (USB/OMFS) interface.

See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084&release_id=407749

OMFS is the filesystem used internally by the Rio Karma. This version adds the missing unlink and rmdir commands.

The latest linux kernel, v2.6.16, was just released, and it contains the Rio Karma hardware drivers (USB and PARTITION); that is, everything except the OMFS filesystem driver. So using your Karma with Linux just got a little bit easier.

Download (kernel 2.6.16):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2.sign

OMFS is the filesystem used internally by the Rio Karma. This release is an update to the driver that enables some success with uploading files.

Libkarma is a GPL C library and some small user tools for managing the Rio Karma personal audio digital player. This version saves memory and provides much faster fid search. See details in the included README/CHANGELOG files and/or visit http://www.freakysoft.de/html/libkarma.

Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=176084

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release adds optional write/move/rename support for non-taxi files (i.e., tunes and playlists), along with other improvements.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Lkarmafs is a GNU-linux user-space filesystem for the Rio Karma (RK) personal digital audio player based on libkarma and FUSE. This release fixes some memory leaks, adds new options and implements full modification/access time management.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=174800

Fixes a link error, cleans up some compile time warnings, and adds a bit more filesystem write support.

Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=155788&package_id=175124