Philips GoGear on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Philips GoGear is a series of small flash memory and
Philips SA32xx-specific GoGear website
GoGear on Linux Boxes
openGoGear
Philips products Consumer electronics brands Digital audio players Android (operating system) devices {{electronics-stub
Philips GoGear is a series of small flash memory and hard drive
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magne ...
-based personal electronic devices from Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...
. The line includes digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile devices ...
s, digital audio player
A portable media player (PMP) (also including the related digital audio player (DAP)) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files. The data is typically stored o ...
s, and audio recorders. The GoGear line is named for the size of its products, all of which are rather small and portable. The digital audio players in the series were primarily designed to compete against the Apple
An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, where its wild ancestor, ' ...
iPod.
History
The GoGear brand was introduced in 2004, although Philips had been making digital audio players for several years prior. One of its well known players was the Philips HDD100 jukebox from 2003 which featured a 15 gigabyte hard drive.Device synchronization
Like the Philips ShoqBox, the GoGear HDD0''xx'' series of audio players are USB mass storage class devices and therefore support driverless file transfer on most systems; however, files transferred via this method will not be available for playback as they must also be added to a SQLite database. This is done automatically by a modified version ofMusicmatch Jukebox
MusicMatch Jukebox was an audio player made by San Diego-based MusicMatch, Inc. It contained features commonly found in jukebox software such as the ability to manage digital audio files and playlists, audio file conversion, an online music s ...
included with the player, but alternative software has been developed to update the database. GOLB and openGoGear are two such utilities for Linux.
The original GoGear series (SA32xx) requires ArcSoft Media Converter software to transfer video files, however, audio files may be transferred via driverless file transfer over USB.
The GoGear ViBE, however, does not need any external device synchronization: no specific software is needed, and adding music files to it is as easy as putting the files in the right directory in a USB mass storage device.
Newer GoGear devices, such as the GoGear Aria and GoGear RaGa use Media Transfer Protocol
The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is an extension to the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) communications protocol that allows media files to be transferred automatically to and from portable devices. Whereas PTP was designed for downloading pho ...
for synchronization as well as the USB mass storage class.
Alternate firmware
The open source firmware projectRockbox
Rockbox is a free and open-source software replacement for the OEM firmware in various forms of digital audio players (DAPs) with an original kernel. It offers an alternative to the player's operating system, in many cases without removing the or ...
has added initial support for the GoGear SA9200 series, and runs well on the HDD16x0 and HDD63x0 series.
See also
* Philips ShoqBoxReferences
External links
Philips SA32xx-specific GoGear website
GoGear on Linux Boxes
openGoGear
Philips products Consumer electronics brands Digital audio players Android (operating system) devices {{electronics-stub