SD Card and seeing song on it

[Mike]

I have an MP-556 (1GB Flash) that has a 2GB San Disk SD Card in it.
If I hook up the mp3 player to my computer thru windows explorer I can
see that I have 396 songs on the card. However, when I turn it on and
look to see how many songs I have on the card it says 130! Why is
that? All of these songs were ripped from CDs I have. I then copied
and pasted them from the computer to the card with no problems. Can
anyone help me and tell me why I can't see all my songs on the card?

Thanks, Mike

[David Hart]

First, how did you add them to the iLO? Did drag and drop them or did you use Windows Media Player (windows) or Amarok (linux) to move them over (highly recommended)?

What you might have is some of the directories might be over loaded (containing more than 99 files). There is a nice thread over at CNET about an iLO user with same model as yours having a similar problem. Media managers such as Windows Media Player, iTunes and Amarok usually solve these problems by creating sub directories automatically for the music. Since Windows Media Player is recommended for the unit, and assuming you are using Windows, I'd use that.

Hope that helps.

[Mike]

David, thanks for responding. When I copied my files I was just doing
the drag and drop method in windows explorer from my C drive to F
drive (card in the mp3 player). I'll check out that link you listed
below. Dumb question, but how do you move them over using Windows
Media Player to the mp3 player's card? Just wondering.

On Jan 8, 1:01 pm, "David Hart" <david.alan.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> First, how did you add them to the iLO? Did drag and drop them or did you
> use Windows Media Player (windows) or Amarok (linux) to move them over
> (highly recommended)?
>
> What you might have is some of the directories might be over loaded
> (containing more than 99 files). There is a nice thread over at

> CNET<http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6035_102-0.html%3Bjsessionid=abc9vdbZ9K21...>about

> an iLO user with same model as yours having a similar problem. Media
> managers such as Windows Media Player, iTunes and Amarok usually solve these
> problems by creating sub directories automatically for the music. Since
> Windows Media Player is recommended for the unit, and assuming you are using
> Windows, I'd use that.
>
> Hope that helps.
>

> On Jan 8, 2008 8:04 AM, Mike <mike_pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have an MP-556 (1GB Flash) that has a 2GB San Disk SD Card in it.
> > If I hook up the mp3 player to my computer thru windows explorer I can
> > see that I have 396 songs on the card.  However, when I turn it on and
> > look to see how many songs I have on the card it says 130!  Why is
> > that?  All of these songs were ripped from CDs I have.  I then copied
> > and pasted them from the computer to the card with no problems.  Can
> > anyone help me and tell me why I can't see all my songs on the card?
>

> > Thanks, Mike- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

[David Hart]

Mike,

Doesn't the manual describe how to used Windows Media player? First I'm only recommending Windows Media player because everyone who has Windows usually has it built in. It's certainly not the best player/manager you could use the iLo but it has the advantage of being the one that is usually already installed. The two best alternatives in Windows land to Windows Media Player are MediaMonkey and Songbird. There is a very biased review/ad for Media Monkey here but I think it is pretty true. The standard version is free but if you want something like the smart playlists that Apple has you and on the fly conversions from your library (say if you burned everything in a lossless format and would convert on the fly to mp3 at the last minute) you should pay the $20 to support the program. Songbird is open source but is only in 0.4 version so it is a bit touchy so far. There is a nice article here on ten alternatives to itunes here. Note that Windows Media Player isn't listed since nobody really thinks it is that good compared to iTunes. This is probably the number one reason why iPods have sold so well is that iTunes isn't a bad program if you have an iPod. It really isn't that good for non-iPods.

I would really try out media monkey first because it handles tagging and everything else nicely.I've used it and it is pretty good. Also Windows Media player is always trying to shove WMA on to its users which isn't necessarily the best format despite Microsoft's advertisements.

No matter what you do I'd:

1. figure out which one (media monkey, windows media player or songbird) that you want to use. 
2. Copy everything from the iLo and the SD card into the my music directory in my Documents
   
3. Delete everything except for a single file each from the iLo and its SD card. This is important because some MP3 players can crash if there isn't something there for it to read
4. Load up the media manager manager you want to use
5. You should see in whatever media manager, the iLo.
6. If the program hasn't already done so import through the file menus the my music folder
7. Synchronize the my music folder with your iLo

Using something like Media Monkey you could build up a large music collection and then have Media Monkey randomly sync material so the iLo always sounds fresh. Also having it in Media Monkey means that you could always just add a different device if the iLo fails and you want to replace it with another MP3 player (even an iPod since Media Monkey supports iPods).

If you need more help, just tell me which media manager you decide on and I'll try and give you more details if you can't figure out it yourself.

On Jan 8, 2008 7:52 PM, Mike <mike_...@hotmail.com> wrote:

David, thanks for responding.  When I copied my files I was just doing
the drag and drop method in windows explorer from my C drive to F
drive (card in the mp3 player).  I'll check out that link you listed
below.  Dumb question, but how do you move them over using Windows
Media Player to the mp3 player's card?  Just wondering.