[SLL] MP3 Player

[Brian Hatch]

Roughly around 2007-12-22 10:08 -0800, Mr.Scrooge extemporized:

> I may be the last person on earth to get an mp3 player. I just got a sansa c250. Amarok recognized
> it and says it transferred files to it but i could not play any of the songs i transferred, the
> device does not see any of them. I tried rockbox but i don't think they support this model
> so....anyone have any ideas. I know an ipod will work but i don't want to give them my money.
> Sansa is supposed to work with Linux or so i thought. Anyone have any experience with this model
> in particular? or mp3 players in general? I 'd hate to return it but i will if i have to, i like
> to hack so i will continue to work on it but only for so long. Hacking is fun but making an MP3
> player work? i've got better things to do. Any help appreciated.

I can't speak to the sansa specifically.  However I've got a player
that is very finicky about what bitrate it accepts on music files.
Presumably if you're using the windows software with which it comes,
it will modify the mp3 to be playable when you copy it in.  A bit
of googling found the acceptable bitrate parameters, so I've just
made sure to convert within the limits it'll take.

(My situation: iriver, using ogg, as converted from flac lossless
files, so reconverting from the flacs are not an issue.)




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