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cheapkelly:
I bought this used from my son when he wanted an MP3 player. The person put alot of rock n roll songs on it for him. Anyhow, he now has a sandisk  and my daughter has a Zune, which is a cinch to work and set up. We never put anymore songs on this after we got it. The cd was a bit scratched, but was jukebox. I went to ebay and seen my player on sale. I read the info and he said "upgraded to rockbox", etc. So... I figured that was the problem. I take it that I did it right, as when I first turn it on it says archos recorder os 1.28, but when I press the middle "play" button it says Rockbox 2.50. The different options are all different too, which are yours. Anyhow, all my music is in media player 10 (i think, it could be 11). It said with xp that it is "drag and drop". When I plug in my player, the player shows the usb is plugged in, but on  media player it says no device found. I am a TOTAL beginner with this stuff, so please be patient with me and use "every day" words. I don't know all the computer mumble jumbo yet. Is my recorder compatible with windows media player? If not, what can I download for free and how do I tranfer the songs?? Thanks in advance for your help. I can just go out and get a newer one pretty cheap, but I only want a player and this is 20 gb. I don't need all the bells and whistles of the new ones (pics, videos, etc), so I would like to get this working since it holds tons of songs. Thanks again!!

scoz:
The beauty of Archos products, or at least these ones, is they don't require any additional software to copy tracks to them.  When you plug it into your computer is is exactly the same as pluging in any other external hard drive.  It will appear as another drive on your computer  When it says "drag and drop" it means exactly that.  Open up "windows explorer" or use "my computer" and just "drag and drop" the files from your computer to it.  

The cd that comes with them did include "Music match"  which was an MP3 player thing like WMP but is not needed at all.  In fact I'd say avoid at all costs.

AlexP:

--- Quote from: scoz on January 05, 2008, 08:15:08 AM ---The beauty of Archos products, or at least these ones, is they don't require any additional software to copy tracks to them.  When you plug it into your computer is is exactly the same as pluging in any other external hard drive.  It will appear as another drive on your computer  When it says "drag and drop" it means exactly that.  Open up "windows explorer" or use "my computer" and just "drag and drop" the files from your computer to it.

--- End quote ---

Which is of course true of any DAP with rockbox installed.  That's (part of) the beauty of rockbox!

cheapkelly:
OK, please be patient as I'm computer illiterate, well, maybe ONE step above that. LOL Can I use windows media player ? Is it compatible for that, or do I just drag the actual "folders" for each cd I have? Thanks for the help so far. I'm sure I"m making this harder than what it really is.

scoz:
I've no idea if it works with WMP or not, and mine's currently not working at all so I can't find out.  

Just use explorer to drag and drop what you want to put on to your player.  MP3 only with rockbox 2.5 mind you.  If you get a more recent version WAV files'll work too.

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