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How do I sync music? (was: newbie question - sorry)
GodEater:
Indeed - I thought this went without saying though.
socraticju:
I'm a bit (a lot) confused about the .sat thing >_
soap:
--- Quote from: socraticju on September 03, 2007, 03:07:31 PM ---Why can I just drag music into the player hard drive now? (goto my music and just drag to the player?)
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You can... when you use Rockbox as your firmware.
--- Quote from: socraticju on September 03, 2007, 03:07:31 PM ---But why couldn't I just do that before instead of copy/pasting onto the pc and back on again?
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If you already have a local copy of all you music - you can just delete the .sat files. Rockbox will never read the .sat files, and has no use for them.
--- Quote from: socraticju on September 03, 2007, 03:07:31 PM ---So now I should be able to just drag music files, itunes seeded or not?
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I'm not sure how iTunes and the Gigabeat relate, I must be missing something.
Yes, though, (I think I'm answering your question) Rockbox can browse your files wherever you drag them onto your player.
Chronon:
If you bought DRMed music from the iTunes Store then those tracks will not play through Rockbox. You'll be able to transfer them to the player, but they won't play.
Tracks ripped using iTunes should play fine.
Falco98:
on ripping, for the noobs --
the moral of the story here may be (in part) to not use proprietary rippers or formats (itunes, toshiba whatever, etc). use something standalone, such as EAC (exactaudiocopy.de) and encode into a free format (i swear up and down about Ogg-Vorbis, but MP3 would probably be sufficient too). That way your music will be free forever and portable to whatever platform you want to play them on (especially DAPs with Rockbox).
On synching -- I'm really really REALLY in favor of actual file manipulation being done by the user, instead of the software. i.e. keep your full CDs each in their own folder, and put the files manually onto your player wherever you feel like. Personally i use a root/Music/Artist/Album/Song naming scheme, meaning that in the "root" directory of the player there's then a folder called "music" (to avoid ALL confusion with any other folders on the player already), then each artist has its own folder, then each album has its own folder therein. It beats the crap out of having to use some proprietary software to perform mystery voodoo "synching" rituals on your player where you'll never *really* know where the actual files are kept.
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