Music from iRiver to Comp

[bugmenot]

IS there any way I can get songs from my iriver to my computer? Any siftware taht would allow me to do this?

[ManchesterUnited4Life]

Yes - it's called Windows Explorer ...

[pomegranate]

I don't really know the flash players, but isn't it just a matter of going to the device in My Computer?

Edit: d'oh

[Triskelios]

The default firmware on the iFP-series players is "managed" - it uses special "manager" software instead of acting as a USB disk. It also prevents transferring files with names like "*.mp3", "*.ogg", etc. from the player to a computer.

However, renaming the files on the player works around it. The other solution is to switch to the "UMS" firmware to make the player USB storage compatible, and lose this silly restriction (it has a few drawbacks, though).

Supposedly, iRiver's official manager software has disabled renaming of files (I haven't confirmed this since I use different software on Unix).

[Jolt]

Originally Posted by Triskelios

Supposedly, iRiver's official manager software has disabled renaming of files (I haven't confirmed this since I use different software on Unix).

Any reason for this?

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[Triskelios]

Originally Posted by jolt

Any reason for this?

Since the default firmware does not allow transferring songs to a computer (presumably as a childish form of "copy protection"). Renaming the files defeats this restriction, so they decided to not let their software support renaming (but they already released UMS firmware that doesn't have this problem, so I don't understand why they would even bother).

Of course, nobody says you have to use their manager software (even if you don't use the UMS firmware because of its own problems).

[Jolt]

Originally Posted by Triskelios

Of course, nobody says you have to use their manager software (even if you don't use the UMS firmware because of its own problems).

Ah true, just like the H300's then.

Well thats another little bit of information I know now......

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