QHIMDTRANSFER(1)

📦 version 0.9.16, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 QHIMDTRANSFER 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for qhimdtransfer, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, iykyk). it's a lil graphical bestie for your MiniDisc devices and honestly? she serves. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

qhimdtransfer — Transfer software for MiniDisc devices 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

qhimdtransfer

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no args, just launch her. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

qhimdtransfer is a graphical user interface application for accessing your HiMD Walkman. she's not doing it alone though — she uses the libhimd library to read and write audio tracks from a HiMD filesystem, and that filesystem can be mounted directly from a physical HiMD Walkman or from a previously created image file of a HiMD. either way, she's got you. 🔥

so here's the move: you choose "Connect" in the file menu, the mount point of the HiMD filesystem gets located, and the track listing is consequently loaded into the application into the track list viewer on the left-hand side. yes bestie, left side, we love a layout that makes sense. ✨

💫 uploading & downloading (the main character tasks) 💫

  • To upload a track (aka transfer it to the PC): select the tracks you want to transfer in the track list window. then choose the destination directory in the file browser on the right-hand side and click onto the upload button (it's the white arrow on red background). 🌈
  • To download tracks to the device: select the tracks to be downloaded in the file browser and click onto the download button (that one's the white arrow on green background). 💚
not me mixing up the arrows every single time 😭 red = up to PC, green = down to device. screenshot it, bestie.

🧚 the format tea (read this part, fr fr) 🧚

currently libhimd — and therefore qhimdtransfer — implements full read access for PCM, ATRAC-3+ and MP3 tracks, as well as experimental write support for MP3 tracks. 📀

⚠️ lowkey important: MP3 playback is supported by second and third generation of HiMD Walkman only. older gens? they simply cannot. 💀

and here's the part that's giving drama: non-MP3 tracks are protected by Sony's DRM software stack OpenMG, which require a sophisticated calculation of keys and access control lists. so writing of non-MP3 tracks is therefore currently not yet supported. the DRM said "no ❤️" and we respect her boundaries (we do not respect them, but we cannot fight her). 🙈

🫶 the "not yet" list 🫶

please note that some of the functions in the graphical user interface — like deleting or renaming tracks or formatting the medium — are not yet implemented, but work is currently in progress to achieve that. so like. soon. manifesting it. 🕯️✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those too, they're the CLI besties. iykyk. 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The linux-minidisc project — <https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc>.

This manual page was written by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>.

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 no cap, every single detail is in there — she's iconic, she's a little unfinished, and she's yours. periodt. 💅✨

source: QHIMDTRANSFER(1) · dated November 23, 2012 · mwah, kiss ya later 🫶💖

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