OT: Help w/ Sony MP3

smashguy37 wrote on 12/31/2007, 8:57 AM

I'm looking to buy this little USB stick MP3 player that Sony makes and I'm testing one out before I buy it (I know someone who has the same one) and I thought maybe because I was capturing in Vegas when I was trying this at first, was why it wasn't working right.

I plug it in to a USB port and the pop up offers me to: transfer via Media Player or take no action. However, on another computer I have, I get the option to "Open folder to view files", which is what I need. My computer will list the player in the device manager and in Media Player but it won't even give me the little tray icon "safely remove hardware" bit.

Sorry, I know this is super off topic.

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Chienworks wrote on 12/31/2007, 9:10 AM

Did the player come with software to be installed? Some memory sticks won't show up as a removable drive without their own driver. A lot of the older Lexar devices are like that, for example. I've got a similar problem with my Archos media player. On most PCs it will show up as a removable drive letter when it's plugged into a USB port but on some it doesn't. Install the USB driver that is available on their website and it works on every computer.

smashguy37 wrote on 12/31/2007, 9:12 AM

The computer it works on is an old crappy P4 Dell which has almost nothing on it. My computer is a Pentium D. I found some USB driver for it on the net but it wanted me to connect the player (which it wouldn't detect). I'll look around again, thanks.