MP3 Player

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Please could someone suggest a MP3 Player that would be compatible with the Brennan as I have a AGPTEK Rocker MP3 player and when i plug it into usb C it does not recognise it and asks me to plug in a USB would just love to have a MP3 player that was simple to use and I could load my playlists onto thank you for any help regards Andrew

[Daniel Taylor]

Generally, the B2 will not recognize an MP3 player plugged into the USB port.  The port is set up to talk only to a USB disk or CD drive - what might be considered a slave device.  MP3 players behave like a master device.  If there is an MP3 device that can appear to the B2 as a FAT32 formatted disk, then it might work.  But I don't know of any such device.

[Mark Fishman]

I have a couple of old(er) Creative MuVo MP3 players that look like a disk to a computer. (Windows thinks it can use them in other ways, too, but that means running <shudder> Windows Media Player to talk to them, so I use them as if they were disks.) Also a Sansa Clip that looks like a disk. And there were some Sony Walkman models that behaved like disks when connected to a USB port.

The key is not to have too fancy a player. The modern ones with touchscreen interfaces and all kinds of high-resolution capabilities are usually computers of their own and need to talk to special software. Even my classic iPod can be made to look like a USB disk drive, but then they can't actually play anything that you just copy to the disk -- they need to have their internal database updated by iTunes or equivalent.

[Peter Lowham]

Hi Guy,

I have just looked at a nearly 20 year old mp3 player, an ATMT unit.  Whilst Windows does recognise it as disk storage, the unit's 'Properties' show it as 'File system: Generic hierarchical'.  The B2 will not recognise any format other than 'FAT32' (or FAT16).

That might be the basis of your issue here.

Regards,

Peter.

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Thanks a lot for taking the time to help with my problem.