Note: In the original post I called it a Philips HDD60. What I have is in fact a Philips HDD120. Apolgies if I misled anyone

Part n of my ongoing long-term progject to ditch windows.

I was give a present of a Philips HDD120 Mp3 player a few years ago. I don’t often use it, but at the same time when I do it’s damn handy and I’m fond of it. So it would be nice to be able to load something on it from Ubuntu.

I haven’t tried it but golb is the best I’ve come up with so far, so I’ll keep a note of it here.

golb is a piece of software which searches a directory recursively for mp3 and m3u files and creates an SQLite database out of the information found. This doesn’t seem to be usefull but it is! It’s for people that own a philips hdd0XX mp3 player (also called GoGear) because this one uses an SQLite database to save its songs.

The name golb therefore means GoGear on Linux boxes.

The problem with the mp3 player is that it is only usable under windows because philips didn’t make a linux software. So this is the software you need to use your mp3 player under linux. And the best thing: this software is much easier than the windows one. You only have to copy your music to the mp3 player, run the app and that’s it!

I’ve seen one or two mentions of Philips MP3 players using an SQLite database, so hopefully that applies to my version.