Members Mark L Posted October 16, 2008 Members Share Posted October 16, 2008 My wife has bought a SanDisk Fuze mp3 player I downloaded an album for her from MSN Music UK a few weeks ago I've uploaded the album from my laptop to her mp3 player. It's loaded successfully but it won't play. This message appears: 'Synchronize to continue your music subscription'. What does it mean? Both my wife and I are computer-illiterate Can anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted October 16, 2008 Members Share Posted October 16, 2008 Have you tried to synchronize with Windows Media Player? Connect your mp3 player to your laptop and go to SYNC in WMP. You will need to put your album/songs in the Sync list and then hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 16, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2008 Have you tried to synchronize with Windows Media Player? Connect your mp3 player to your laptop and go to SYNC in WMP. You will need to put your album/songs in the Sync list and then hit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 16, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 16, 2008 I'm off to bed now - up at 5am for work So thanks in advance to anyone who can help out my good lady wife with her little problem And I don't mean ME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted October 16, 2008 Members Share Posted October 16, 2008 Hmmm... sounds like one of those evil RIAA plots at work. Try making an MP3 from a WAV file & see if that helps. Else, you could verify that you do not use VBR (variable bit rate) MP3 files, or that the bit rate is 192K or less. Some players don't handle these things gracefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted October 17, 2008 CMS Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 I downloaded an album for her from MSN Music UK a few weeks ago I've uploaded the album from my laptop to her mp3 player. It's loaded successfully but it won't play. This message appears: 'Synchronize to continue your music subscription'. What does it mean? I haven't the foggiest idea, but I'd suggest that you read the manual for the player. Some of these things use hooks in Windows Media Player and aren't happy unless you do it their way. I have a Toshiba Gibabit MP3 player and I was loading files on to it from the "house" computers (just copying the file from one drive to the other) with no problem. But when I tried to copy something to it from the studio computer, it refused to play that file. I checked the manual and found a reference to Media Player version 10 or above, and since I don't keep up with most Microsoft updates for the studio computer, it had Media player 9. I broke down and updated it, and, like magic, the Toshiba player was happy even though I never actually used Media Player to copy the files to it. Go figure. It's a communist plot for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted October 17, 2008 Members Share Posted October 17, 2008 It also may be a player that is intended for use with a subscription program like napster or Rhapsody. I think SanDisk and Rhapsody had some kind of deal with each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Frantag Posted October 17, 2008 Members Share Posted October 17, 2008 This is from Sansa FAQ: http://kb.sandisk.com/cgi-bin/sandisk_en.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=230&p_created=1223875414&p_sid=QU5U8ygj&p_brand=sansa&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD0xMTYsMTE2JnBfcHJvZHM9NCZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9MS40JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTc*&p_li=&p_topview=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted October 17, 2008 CMS Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 This is from Sansa FAQ:All new PlaysForSure-verified devices use a Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) driver to copy files to/from the device. This MTP driver supports the device operations that are required to support the transfer and the playback of purchased Microsoft Windows Media digital rights management (DRM)-protected content. Interesting. I've never heard of MTP, but that's probalby what my Toshiba player uses. While connected, it works like a disk drive (I can drag or copy files to it and they'll play) but it doesn't pop up the "some USB mass storage device is connected" icon and therefore doesn't need to be stopped (in fact there's no button to do that) before disconnecting. I wondered why that was so, and I guess this is the reason - it doesn't use the USB mass storage driver, it uses the MTP driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted October 18, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 18, 2008 Thanks for all your advice, fellas Unfortunately, it still won't play the downloaded album. It does, however, play albums ripped from CDs I bought myself a new mp3 player today (Sony Walkman) and it plays everything I've put into it, including the stuff my wife's mp3 player won't play! Oh well, I'm not complaining.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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