I got an IRiver iMP-550 for my Birthday/Christmas from my mom. They say they'll support Ogg Vorbis soon.
I've been playing with it a little bit and was having a hard time getting my playlists to work. I figured the problem related to the differing Unix/Windows text formats. Unix uses just a LF (LineFeed) while Windows uses CR-LF(CarriageReturn and LineFeed) at the end of its lines. The iMP-550 playlists must be in the CR-LF format as of firmware 1.40.
Another thing that I thought might be going wrong is that unix uses a / (forward slash) for path separators while Windows uses a \ (back slash). This was a problem as well. The iMP-550 playlists must use backslash as a path separator as of firmware 1.40.
Ugh, so I guess I need to do a recode lat1..ibmpc playlist.m3u for my playlists before I burn the CD. I hope IRiver is responsive to my suggestions. It should be pretty easy to support unix style playlists.
Hope this helps anyone making a cursory websearch on this stuff. I know I find good solutions on people's blogs all the time.
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Posted by volker at December 24, 2003 03:59 AMso nice so nice...are you tempted to take music to sudamerica now? things become so easy...i have made a playlist on the nomad that is all the tracks on the thing and i've been playing it on shuffle...not quite the 1ey library but i haven't had a repeat in 4 days.
carry forth.
You rock. Now I know why we discussed IRiver at length yesterday. You miss one day of blogs and the world gets all technical. For anyone reading this, the Sidekick PDA thing rocks
This was a big help. I had figured out the backslash path separator problem, and had removed the prefixes that xmms had prepended to the beginning of my paths (in my case "/mnt/iriver"), but had forgotten about the CRLF problem. As soon as I changed the line endings, the playlists on my iHP-120 started working. Thanks!
Posted by: Kevin at January 25, 2004 08:07 PM