Can't play

[Zaxdad]

Hi.
I'm new to Rockbox,so bear with me. I can't seem to get any audio to play. My files all have a WMA.SAT. extension. I tried removing the SAT as the file would not load. It now loads but does not play. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Zaxdad

[Llorean]

.sat files are encrypted. You cannot play them. Also, Rockbox does not support WMA.

With the Gigabeat, you have to recopy your music, using some method other than the Gigabeat software (such as simply dragging the files to the disk), and your music must be in one of the formats Rockbox supports (nearly any common format except WMA or APE).

[Zaxdad]

Thanks for your rely. Is there some software that can rip in the desired format and maintain an album file structure. I'm afraid I've only used Windows media player in the past. Again, sorry for all the newbie questions.
Zaxdad

[GodEater]

Buried somewhere in its options, Media Player allows you to change the format it encodes to from WMA to MP3. I forget where though.

[Nate!]

Is all of your music on your Gigabeat .sat encrypted and are you going to re-rip your entire library to a Rockbox useable format?  If you don't want to re-rip, there are .sat encryption removal steps on the Rockbox Gigabeat Port Page.

[Chronon]

Yeah, but unencrypted WMA files will not do him any good, either.

[dolph002]

i think someone should make some sort of manual that would tell a person how all this works..

 

[Nate!]

What is your question?  With all of the codecs that Rockbox supports, things can get confusing as far as which one to choose.  Really the decision is up to your ears.  Things to consider are: how much disk/memory space you have and whether you want to sacrifice quality for the amount of media you put on your player.  Then you just have to choose, which codec do I want that will server my purpose for my player.

Me, personally, I use the mp3 format simply because that's what I've always used.  I didn't know about ogg/vorbis, mpc, or any of the lossy or lossless formats before I started in the digital music life.  If I had to do it all over again, I think I still would choose the mp3 format.  It's more widely used/playable, strictly IMHO, and so sharing between my device and say my wife's is much easier.

It is, however, on the Gigabeat Port page that Rockbox does not support the .sat "encrypted" format native to the original firmware.  Luckily, also on the Gigabeat Port page are instructions for removing the encryption.

Good luck in your decision.

[GodEater]

Although removing .SAT encryption from .WMA files will not help him - as someone else has already pointed out - since we don't support .WMA yet. So currently re-ripping / encoding to is his only choice.

[westkc3]

"So currently re-ripping / encoding to is his only choice."

He should just be thankfull he doesn't have to do it real time as with MD ATRAC files, that, my friend,  is a real horror.

[thenrik]

Once you take out the .sat encryption, you might want to try opensource format converter, mediacoder:
http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

It will convert to and from most all formats.

Joe Bob says check it out,

Tom