Portable players

by **rbbyrbsn** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:45 pm

I haven't noticed and problems with my Zen v Plus

expected doesn't remove empty folders when syncing

by **Guest** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 6:29 am

Lowlander wrote:Some notes
Support for portable/external players is something that the developers are interested in.
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Portable Players for which support has been requested
Palm 5/Treo

Palm T5 works perfectly in Drive Mode (earlier OS5 devices won't, though there is a 3rd party equivalent SW). But it creates multiple (two, in this case) volume subdevices (as do many flash readers). It would be nice if the USB device id method allowed selection of subdevices. Using the volume name or letter both work fine, though.

It would also be nice if OGG downconversion used bit peeling, rather than reconverting. It would be much quicker. It would also be nice to specify threshold Q rather than bitrate for downconversion from OGG source.

If you have a T5 (or I assume Tx or LD), Aeroplayer using OGG is the perfect companion to MM.

by **Guest** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:24 pm

Guilap wrote:Well, my Rio S35S player shows up in explorer, but without any drive letter (Non Mass Storage).

I downloaded the drivers, but I am only able to transfer musics by Rio Music Manager, Windows Media Player or even dragging and dropping a mp3 file into My Computer\Rio S35 in Explorer.

Can MediaMonkey use the same method Windows Media Player or Explorer uses to transfer the files?

I tried drag'n drop to transfer directly from MediaMonkey to my Rio player, but MM just lets me drag'n drop to another drive. Then, the workaround is: drag'n drop from MediaMonkey to a temp directory, then copy it to your Rio Player.

For informational purposes, the driver I downloaded from Rio is the same for all the following devices:
Rio 600
Rio 800
Rio 900
Rio Nike PSA[play
Rio S10
Rio S11
Rio S30S
Rio S35S
Rio S50
Rio Fuse
Rio Chiba
Rio Cali
Rio Fuse
Rio Chiba
Rio Cali
Rio Riot
Rio Karma
Rio Nitrus
Rio Eigen

So, the solution should be the same for all these devices.

by **tom.s** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:42 am

the archos gmini xs200 works with mediamonkey.
(though i'm not convinced it doesn't just copy over every file when syncing, rather than only those that have changed).

In fact the fact it allows you to copy over playlists improves the usability of the (admitedly fairly basic) gmini so much that i emapiled archos and said they should bumdle mediamonkey.

Of course they have since brought out the XS202 which is "play for sure" and probably works with WMP10 now. Not that i like WMP10.

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What would be really handy for me would be to be able to sync to my phone (which connects to my pc via bluetooth networking) - which i guess would work like a shuffle... syncing 64mb of random songs... but it would also need to downsample them to 96Kb on the fly to make it worthwhile.
With more and more phones playing mp3s the ability to do this might be a good feature.

by **fdmendez** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:07 pm

I would love media monkey and buy it if it had support for the iRiver H10

by **Guest** » Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:37 pm

[quote="Lowlander"][b]Some notes[/b]
Support for portable/external players is something that the developers are interested in. Of course they are limited by the makers of these portable players. If they keep their players closed for the outside there isn't much that can be done.
There are other options and that is looking for plugins on WinAmp. It has a section for portable players (not too many plugins). I don't know if these plugins would work with MM.
Another solutions is looking for firmware updates on the specific player. Sometimes manufacturers add hdd support afterwards.

The following are a list of players confirmed to work with MM and for which support has been requested. If you want your player to be supported please post a request and PM me with the link to the post if I fail to pick it up in the list. As for players that are supported you can PM or post on the forum. It would be nice if you post any details on how you got it to work (especially if you needed plugins, firmware updates, etc.)

[b]Portable Players confirmed to work with MM[/b]
[list]
Archos av420
Archos Recorder 20
BenQ Joybee 150
Creative MuVu NX 128MB
Creative nomad muvo (standard,NX,TX,TX-FM) - all capacities
Creative nomad muvo^2 (=square) - all capacities
Creative nomad muvo slim - all capacities
Iaudio m3l
[/list]

[b]Portable Players for which support has been requested[/b]
[list]Creative Lab's Nomad Jukebox 3
Creative Lab's Zen Touch
Creative Labs' Zen Xtra jukebox
Creative Zen
DELL DJs
Ipod
Neuros MP3 player
Palm 5/Treo
Rio Riot
Sony Mini Disk Player
Sony NW-HD3[/list]

[b]Important note[/b]
Players confirmed are confirmed by users. This could mean that it doesn't work for you. So be careful with these lists.[/quote]

by **badmofo** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 3:55 pm

It would be a dream to get MM to support the Archos av300 series. av320 av340 av380 are all the same player but with different hard disks.

Thanks

by **Guest** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:21 pm

Guilap wrote:Well, my Rio S35S player shows up in explorer, but without any drive letter (Non Mass Storage).

I downloaded the drivers, but I am only able to transfer musics by Rio Music Manager, Windows Media Player or even dragging and dropping a mp3 file into My Computer\Rio S35 in Explorer.

Can MediaMonkey use the same method Windows Media Player or Explorer uses to transfer the files?

I tried drag'n drop to transfer directly from MediaMonkey to my Rio player, but MM just lets me drag'n drop to another drive. Then, the workaround is: drag'n drop from MediaMonkey to a temp directory, then copy it to your Rio Player.

For informational purposes, the driver I downloaded from Rio is the same for all the following devices:
Rio 600
Rio 800
Rio 900
Rio Nike PSA[play
Rio S10
Rio S11
Rio S30S
Rio S35S
Rio S50
Rio Fuse
Rio Chiba
Rio Cali
Rio Fuse
Rio Chiba
Rio Cali
Rio Riot
Rio Karma
Rio Nitrus
Rio Eigen

So, the solution should be the same for all these devices.

by **mmmennoo** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:38 pm

Try opening a window in wich the contents of the Rio is shown and then drag and drop from MM to the Rio-window instead of dropping on the icon! It works fine for me Creative.

Guilap wrote:I'm on MM 2.3.1.831 and I can drag musics only to drive letters in explorer.

I can drag and drop from other apps (like Avafind) to my Rio S35S node in Explorer, but cannot do the same in MM.

by **Medrakil** » Sat Apr 16, 2005 6:27 pm

I think it'd probably be possible for you to support the NOMAD players from Creative. Developers have managed to create open source applications (libnj, gnomad, neutrino) for linux that work well, perhaps you could learn something from them..

by **jazz matazz** » Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:03 am

Hello,

Is somebody interested by an evolution like this one? see:http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4135

by **Spazz** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 3:15 am

What I'm holding my breath for is File conversions on sync. Like taking my 192 vbr Mp3's to 128 for my small mp3 player. Well, that and nested playlists, which I just started thinking about lately. Like along the lines of when you sync the top level playlist it syncs everything under that one.

For example. <100 Megs of 5 star songs> ------> next playlist <50 megs of 4 star songs> -------> next playlist <yadda yadda yadda>

It can be done manually but dammit, I'm lazy.

by **kojo87** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 6:47 pm

What about the Rio Carbon? all those other Rios but no Carbon

by **mikeryan** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:21 pm

I'd love to see an up-to-date list of what works and what doesn't with MM's sync capabilities... I just got burned buying a Zen Xtra - I'm returning it, MM won't work for synchronization and Creative's software is useless - I was looking at the Rio Karma, but it appears it won't work either.

I'll contribute to the list - the RCA RD2820 and RD2840 worked fine with MM's synchronization features....

by **MMJunky** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:28 pm

Thanks for the replies. I don't plan on buying a portable player very soon, maybe things will have worked out by then.

In the meantime I'm loving the Flac support and Amazon retagging!

Portable players

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Palm T5 (TX, LD too, probably) works fine

iRiver H10

Re: Portable players

Support for the Archos av340

Rio / drag & drop

Can the list be updated?