Hi
I've recently bougt an iRiver E10 here in Sweden. Must say it's a very nice player. The problem I have is that iRivernordic (the nordic importers of iRiver products) says it's linux compatible, and this is the one reason i choosed the iRiver instead of other players, which it really isn't. The compatibility it really have is that you can mount the player as an ordinary hard drive as it is UMS-firmware in it. When you have transferred your songs to it and unpluggs the player you can not find the music under the Music-menu as it hasn't updated the internal database. Instead you have to fetch the music via the Browse-menu which is both slower and with lesser functionality than the ordinary music-menu. I wonder if somebody know how to update the database via linux.
I've tried almost every way I can think of and the most successfully is to use EasyPMP (
http://pmplib.sf.net) to create a database for the U10, since the U10 and E10 is quite the same player in many ways. The problem is that the U10 doesn't use the same database-format as the E10. The U10 have their database in 2 files under the System folder (U10.dat and U10.idx) while the E10 have 3 files under the System folder (db.dat, db.idx and db.dic). I'v tried to replace the two E10-files db.dat and db.idx with the two U10-files I've managed to create, but it won't work.
Anybody know some program I can use or how to solve this problem? I'm open to any kind of idea, easy or difficult, as long as it doesn't implement switching to another operating system on my main computer.
//Måns Andersson
Sweden