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MacTavish
11-15-2003, 11:23 AM
I'm using CF driver from Palaeca with my NX70. It's been fine.

I've previously hotsynced MP3s to the CF and they've played fine.
Now I'm trying to use a CF reader to load MP3s onto the CF. The files go on OK and are MP3 tagged as the originals were and in the correct folder (Palm/programs/msaudio). But when I go to play them, errors, or play 3 secs then 3 secs of another.
nixd
11-17-2003, 02:16 PM
The files more than likely are there but there are duplicates in the directory... some of them will have 4-8k and the others will be the full size. For some reason the apple file system freaks out the directory structure on the CF or clie and there are duplicates created. Use some prog, like Filez or if you are using Zlauncher (its file manager) and manually delete those 4-8k buggers and the mp3's should play fine.
mactavish
11-17-2003, 03:34 PM
I tried removing them little "extra" files. Still won't play.
and DS store too. nada. did a soft reset. nada.
nixd
11-17-2003, 06:36 PM
Check the file size between what actually made it to the card and what you were sending.

The other possiblity is that there is some DRM involved that the sudio player is unable to decode.

simple check is rip a song from a CD you own in iTunes and copy it off to the card. Make sure you rip as MP3 and not ACC
MacTavish
11-17-2003, 08:41 PM
what's a DRM? file sizes match. I've actually transferred a coupl of MP3s that were previously on the CF and played fine. But they were transferred the first time via hotsync, not the reader.
nixd
11-18-2003, 05:21 PM
Digital Rights Management.... copyright protection...
If you manually copy iTunes files that had been downloaded from the store onto the handheld because of the copyright protection (DRM) they will not play
MacTavish
11-18-2003, 08:51 PM
nope these are from CDs I own. Haven't bought yet from iTunes.
nixd
11-19-2003, 03:54 PM
Don't know what to tell you... I have never hotsync'd any of my MP3's only through data export on PC or card readers on Mac never had a prob. (aside from the 4-8k ghost files)

The only other would be to verify that there are not some funky settings for how you ripped the CD. Meaning making a slighty less then standard MP3. Higher bit rate etc.

Wish I could be of more help