Refurb Phillips MP3 player with FM Tuner 29.99 free shipping

[Dogbertt]

Nope, it's gone now.

And to make it play your disks in order that's easy just have your ripper program save filenames with Track Numbers in front.

so it will make

01 - Smooth Operator
02 - Hit Me Baby One More Time.

And the autosort will see that easy.

 

[LoWeONE]

Got one!

thx for the heads up!

 

[AMD K9]

Dogbertt thanks, and yes that works renaming all the files with the numbers first. But who wants to rename all of their mp3 files? Still unexplained is the random way this player will sort tracks. Here is an example. The order I have it saved in Windows is:

Black Sabbath - 01 - Turn Up the Night
Black Sabbath - 02 - VooDoo
Black Sabbath - 03 - Sign of the Southern Cross
Black Sabbath - 04 - E5150
Black Sabbath - 05 - The Mob Rules
Black Sabbath - 06 - Country Girl
Black Sabbath - 07 - Falling of the Edge of the World
Black Sabbath - 08 - Slipping Away
Black Sabbath - 09 - Over and Over


After syncing with the Philips Rush here is the order it plays:

6- Country Girl
5- The Mob Rules
9- Over and Over
7- Falling of the Edge of the World
1- Turn Up the Night
2- VooDoo
3- Sign of the Southern Cross
4- E5150
8- Slipping Away

Can anyone explain the logic of how it sorts it to this? It doesn't follow the numerical order or alphabetical order. And no it's not set to random play either. If I go through the trouble of taking out "Black Sabbath" in front of all Mp3's then it plays correctly, but I am not going to be renaming all my mp3's for this player... Any other solutions?

 

[TecJunkie]

nope deal is dead, all they have is a 256mb no name brand with same features $40

 

[RideFree]

Reason it appears dead is that it is NOW ON SALE FOR $14.99 - unless I am mistaken.

 

[kcreekmore]

Originally posted by: RideFree
Reason it appears dead is that it is NOW ON SALE FOR $14.99 - unless I am mistaken.

Nope, that's a different product entirely.



AMD K9 -- maybe it is playing the files alphabetically by the "DOS" 8.3 name, which isn't usually the same as the full text name. Try going into a command prompt and DIR'ing the directory with "DIR /X".
My previous MP3 player sorta worked that way, and definitely displayed the 8.3 name. I haven't tested this one out yet.
(By the way, listening to AUDIOBOOK chapters in the wrong order is much more difficult than listening to SONGS in the wrong order.)

 

[AMD K9]

kcreekmore - I tried your suggestion and in Win XP the CMD function works in showing the filenames, only it doesn't show it in a DOS format 8.3 setting. It basically shows the filename as I have saved it as in windows (Black Sabbath - 01 - Neon Knights.mp3). Still a mystery...

 

[kcreekmore]

Originally posted by: AMD K9
kcreekmore - I tried your suggestion and in Win XP the CMD function works in showing the filenames, only it doesn't show it in a DOS format 8.3 setting. It basically shows the filename as I have saved it as in windows (Black Sabbath - 01 - Neon Knights.mp3). Still a mystery...

When you're in CMD, and do a DIR /X it lists the 8.3 shortname on each line to the right of the size and to the left of the longname. (If you don't include the /X, it won't list the shortname in there. Good luck.

 

[AMD K9]

Thanks kcreekmore you are right the DOS filenames got mixed up somehow. The first 4 were like this BLACKS~1.mp3 (~1 to ~4). Then things get strange.. BLE928~1, BL248C~1, BL4B09~1, BL6BC6~1.

How do I rename the files in the BLACKS~1.mp3 to BLACKS~8.mp3 DOS designation, but still keeping the long filenames for Windows? Thanks.

 

[kcreekmore]

Originally posted by: AMD K9
Thanks kcreekmore you are right the DOS filenames got mixed up somehow. The first 4 were like this BLACKS~1.mp3 (~1 to ~4). Then things get strange.. BLE928~1, BL248C~1, BL4B09~1, BL6BC6~1.

How do I rename the files in the BLACKS~1.mp3 to BLACKS~8.mp3 DOS designation, but still keeping the long filenames for Windows? Thanks.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to rename the shortnames without renaming the longnames.

However, in my case, I didn't care if I kept the long names, since I was working with chapters of Audiobooks -- so it was OK if only the folder had the name on it. So I just did a multiple rename in Windows, and renamed them all to names that were short enough (8.3) that the short and long names were the same.

Here's what I did, FYI:
{Step1}open the folder containing all of the files sorted correctly (in detail view), (or a copy of the folder if you want to test it first.)
{Step2}select the first file, then do Ctrl-A to select all the files and leave the focus on the first file.
{Step3}right click on the first file, select "rename", and give it a name in the format of:
XXXX(1).mp3. (Since you had multiple files selected, windows will continue the renumbering for you in a fixed-format of XXXX (2).mp3, XXXX (3).mp3, ... , XXXX (10).mp3, ... Unfortunately, Windows includes a d*mn space in between the "XXXX" and the "(", which means that the short filename (which can't contain spaces) is another one of those out of order XXCB32~1.mp3 names.
{Step4} click on each of the files individually and rename them to take the space out, so each of the names are XXXX(1).mp3, XXXX(2).mp3,...,XXXX(10).mp3,... -- now that "long" filenames are now just 8.3, the short filename is the same (and since it's the same, it doesn't show up in the DIR /X, by the way)
And of course, if there were more than 99 files, I only had three characters to identify the book: XXX(1).mp3,...,XXX(100).mp3,...

So anyway, this process is a pain, and you lose all the information in the filename, but at least they're in the correct order. And actually, depending on the way the mp3's were created and which player you're using, the artist/track/etc. information might still be stored in the mp3 file, and might still be displayed while the song is playing.

That's all I could think of to do. Good luck, and please let me know if you find any easier way around those problems.

 

[AMD K9]

KCREEKMORE Thanks for the idea of multiple renaming. That seems to be the only real solution to this problem. I did find a nifty free program that does batch renaming and it works as far as renaming but I haven't checked to see if it applies to short filenames. Here's the link:

1.4 A-rename

 

[cnorrdin]

Has anyone got this unit to fully use a 1gb or even a 512mb sd card. I bought this thinkin I could have a 1GB+ player and cant get more than about 300mb onto it.
I have tried both a 1gb and and a 512mb card and can only load about 140mb onto the card when installed on the sa235. The link to the driver which supposedly allows 1gb (posted above) only takes me to the Philips site where the currently installed driver is available. Any help would be appreciated.