[linux-minidisc] Testing the HiMD write support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

we have committed a series of patches yesterday that hopefully fixed
the remaining problems we had with the experimental MP3 write support
on HiMDs.

It should now be possible to write any MP3s supported by the 2nd and
3rd generation HiMD hardware using the command line utility
'himdcli'. I have updated the packages in the linux-minidisc Ubuntu
PPA and also included some very basic manpages (man himdcli and man
netmdcli) for the two command line utilities.

To test HiMD write support, just connect and mount your HiMD to your
Linux box and use the himdcli command as follows:

      himdcli /path/to/HiMD/root writemp3 inputfile.mp3

It should be noted that write support for HiMD is still experimental
and should be performed on "toy" media only, i.e. not on any valuable
HiMDs whose contents you'd like to keep. While himdcli won't fry your
HiMD media, it may corrupt the filesystem on them and make the media
unreadable.

An updated version for Windows will hopefully shortly, for MacOS we
are currently building the UI version only (qhimdtransfer) which still
lacks the integration of the writemp3 code. Something that will
hopefully occur within the next weeks.

Adrian