GIGABEAT F-40 HELP!!!!

[El Jefer]

I have had rock box before and ended up uninstalling it but i decided to give it another try and no i have issues........ whenever i go to files-----my music ------album there is no tracks showing up. this kinda scares me because i have a ton of music on there. ive tried updating the database but it never finishes. I don't know what to do. somone out there please help me i don't want to uninstall this great program off of my gigabeat.

bottom line, how can i get all my tracks to show up, i know they are there because whenever i plug it in to the computer it shows that the album files do have tracks in them, its just not showin up on rockbox, anyone know whats wrong?

[cool_walking_]

Please remember that details are important.  At the very least, you should always tell us what version of Rockbox you are using, and what player you are using it on.  What type of files are these (MP3, WMA ...)?

Check the "Show Files" setting.

Updating the database will have no effect on what you see in the "Files" area.

[El Jefer]

sorry!!!

I have a toshiba gigabeat F-40
all of my music files are mp3 and wma
i am running rock box 3.3

also i went to show files and selected show all......now its showing all the files but i cannot play any of the music.
example this is what it looks like

songNAME.mp3.SAT

does the .sat have anything to do with it

[GodEater]

Yes, the .SAT extension means you've loaded the files onto the player whilst it was running the original firmware, and THAT means that they are encrypted.

Rockbox does not play encrypted files.

We have a guide somewhere in the wiki on how to remove this encryption from your files though, so there is still hope

It's here :
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GigabeatFXPort#Remove_SAT_Encryption_Optional

[El Jefer]

yea i found this last night but i guess i have to uninstall rock box to do it..........now i am back to the old gigabeat but it wont find any files. so none of my music will play

[GodEater]

Uuuuh, no. There are instructions there for if you've already loaded Rockbox too. Read the page carefully.

[El Jefer]

yea im statrtin from scratch. All i had to do was refresh the library, sure gave me a scare though, but yea all of my music is being copied to my pc, but what do i do after, the manual just says ti rename the files in the actual gigabeat it doesn't say if i should delete everything from the gigabeat and then upload everything that has just been copied to my pc. am i supposed to delete everything off of the gigabeat and upload the new files.

[GodEater]

The problem with the Gigabeat-F is that in order to being able to play your music in both the Original Firmware (the one it arrived with) and Rockbox, you need two copies of each song on the player. This is because (as I explained earlier), Rockbox cannot play the encrypted music that the Original Firmware understands, and the Original Firmware does not understand unencrypted music that Rockbox does.

So the answer to your question depends on what you want to do.

1) Play your music only in Rockbox

Then yes, you might as well delete the .SAT files from the player.

2) Play your music in the Original Firmware and in Rockbox

Then no, you'll need to leave the .SAT files there.

I'm presuming you have all this music backed up on your PC as well right ?

[El Jefer]

All my music is being copied to my PC as we speak, i will back it up to a potable hardrive when its done.  there is no point in having SAT files and MP3 files so i guess i will delete the .SAT file and then upload all MP3 and just use rock box. im guessing i can always go back its just gana take a long time to secure all of those files again.
thanks

[GodEater]

No problem.

Welcome to the Rockbox family

[El Jefer]

DAMN IT!

My dock took a shit.
is there any other way that i can unlock all of my .sat files maybe without the dock. if i cant then i guess im done with rock box.
WTF i really wanted rock box
any help

[GodEater]

I'm guessing you *don't* have all that music backed up already on your PC then ?

[markun]

Unfortunately we haven't found a way to decrypt the files without the dock..

[El Jefer]

no it was still all downloading on my PC and then i accidental bumped into it and it took a shit. that sucks