dl music files from iriver?

[Tommunist]

a friend of mine has an iriver and needs to do a firmware upgrade but wants to back up all his tunes first. Is there a way to do this?

 

[BW86]

I have the H320 and all I have to do is plug it in and drag and drop all the files to my hard drive.

 

[phisrow]

My experience with the IHP-140 is identical. Just a standard USB2.0 drive, oh sweet, sweet standards compliance. Oh, and I've upgraded firmware several times and never lost any data(granted, this was stock firmware, not some wacky experimental stuff).

 

[Tommunist]

I can't recall the model name but I know that dragging and dropping files isn't initially possible on this particular model (hence me asking how it could be done ) - I'll ask them what model it is a bit later...

 

[Tommunist]

it's an 895 I think - def an 800 series though and it says on the iriver website that doing the firmware update will kill all the songs on the player.

 

[Tommunist]

anyone?

 

[Funyuns101]

from my experience w/iRiver's mp3 players (i own the H120 and owned the iFp-190) they are simply plug and play... just like a typical usb drive/key... he should be able to plug into any computer and read/write onto it~

in any case,
why not just move the songs (onto his own pc) before updating the firmware? and then move them back... ?

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: Funyuns101
from my experience w/iRiver's mp3 players (i own the H120 and owned the iFp-190) they are simply plug and play... just like a typical usb drive/key... he should be able to plug into any computer and read/write onto it~

in any case,
why not just move the songs (onto his own pc) before updating the firmware? and then move them back... ?

for whatever reason the iRiver doesn't allow the movement of files from the player to the PC (but the other direction is okay obviously). apparently a future firmware update will alleviate this issue. I wasn' sure if there was some way to get around this. They are doing everything they can to stop any form of filesharing - getting pretty rediculous...

 

[Taejin]

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: Funyuns101
from my experience w/iRiver's mp3 players (i own the H120 and owned the iFp-190) they are simply plug and play... just like a typical usb drive/key... he should be able to plug into any computer and read/write onto it~

in any case,
why not just move the songs (onto his own pc) before updating the firmware? and then move them back... ?

for whatever reason the iRiver doesn't allow the movement of files from the player to the PC (but the other direction is okay obviously). apparently a future firmware update will alleviate this issue. I wasn' sure if there was some way to get around this. They are doing everything they can to stop any form of filesharing - getting pretty rediculous...

What are you talking about? I copy files from my iRiver to my PC fine..wtf

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: Taejin

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: Funyuns101
from my experience w/iRiver's mp3 players (i own the H120 and owned the iFp-190) they are simply plug and play... just like a typical usb drive/key... he should be able to plug into any computer and read/write onto it~

in any case,
why not just move the songs (onto his own pc) before updating the firmware? and then move them back... ?

for whatever reason the iRiver doesn't allow the movement of files from the player to the PC (but the other direction is okay obviously). apparently a future firmware update will alleviate this issue. I wasn' sure if there was some way to get around this. They are doing everything they can to stop any form of filesharing - getting pretty rediculous...

What are you talking about? I copy files from my iRiver to my PC fine..wtf

Well at some point some version of the firmware made it so that you can't do this. I know 2 people have one of the flashmemory iRivers and they both have this issue.

 

[Funyuns101]

can he send it to someone over aim, thru his mp3/usb disk?

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: Taejin

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: Funyuns101
from my experience w/iRiver's mp3 players (i own the H120 and owned the iFp-190) they are simply plug and play... just like a typical usb drive/key... he should be able to plug into any computer and read/write onto it~

in any case,
why not just move the songs (onto his own pc) before updating the firmware? and then move them back... ?

for whatever reason the iRiver doesn't allow the movement of files from the player to the PC (but the other direction is okay obviously). apparently a future firmware update will alleviate this issue. I wasn' sure if there was some way to get around this. They are doing everything they can to stop any form of filesharing - getting pretty rediculous...

What are you talking about? I copy files from my iRiver to my PC fine..wtf

Well at some point some version of the firmware made it so that you can't do this. I know 2 people have one of the flashmemory iRivers and they both have this issue.

I just picked up the 795 and disappointed that it doesn't act as a USB memory stick and seems to need to user their music manager for file transfers.

I wonder if there is a hacked firmware to get around this?

They mention about not being about to move music off the iriver in the faq.

Over at misticriver.net you can find a korean firmware which is UMS and allows you to use it the iriver as a memory stick. Only problem is that you need to format before changing firmware.

UMS firmware here offically from iRiver.

 

[fs123]

I have the 895 model and there are 2 firmwares that can be used. The first is the standard firmware that you use with their program which does not allow uploading files from the player. The other firmware has UMS in its name and makes the player appear as a actual usb flash drive in windows and you can use it as such (upload/download/file sort with explorer). The trade off by doing this is they limit you to 96kbs encoding.

Goto the official iriver site and not the regional ones to find the firmwares..

I-River Download page

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: fs123
I have the 895 model and there are 2 firmwares that can be used. The first is the standard firmware that you use with their program which does not allow uploading files from the player. The other firmware has UMS in its name and makes the player appear as a actual usb flash drive in windows and you can use it as such (upload/download/file sort with explorer). The trade off by doing this is they limit you to 96kbs encoding.

Goto the official iriver site and not the regional ones to find the firmwares..

I-River Download page

the "96kbs encoding" you are referring to - this is the quality of the recording? as in 128kbs being the normal bitrate that mp3s are encoded at.....