[G4] MP3 Drivers?

[Harry Freeman]

On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Richard Klein wrote:

> Tony Johansen wrote:
>> On 13/1/2007 11:02 AM, "Dan A Currie" <dancurr at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>>     My daughter was given a FAST TRAX MP3 player for Christmas.  My G4
>>     will turn it on but I do not seem to be able to get beyond the
>>     "waiting " symbol on it.
>>     Does anyone know anything more about this annoying little USB 
>> device
>>     ... ?
>>     If you do get past this stage you will likely find other problems
>>     anyway. Although I see lots of claims in forums that mp3 players 
>> are
>>     all just as good as iPods and that iPod success is due to 
>> marketing
>>     on the part of Apple, most of us have discovered that the iPod is
>>     actually the one mp3 player that is easy to use and relatively
>>     hassle free. THAT is the real reason that so many of them have 
>> been
>>     sold.
>>     I have to agree with the other comment, get an iPod. And if you
>>     don’t have one of your own, think about it. The little devices
>>     transform your relationship with music, photos, podcasts, 
>> audiobooks
>>     etc. A big enough one is also great for transferring files from
>>     computer to computer.
>>     Get an iPod, your daughter will love you for it.
>
> That's silly, and not very helpful to Dan.  My Archos Jukebox presents 
> itself to the computer as a simple external drive, so moving music 
> back and forth is simple drag-and-drop.  The only problem is when 
> trying to create playlists on the Mac; the Mac adds an extraneous 
> "/Volumes/Untitled" to the path that the MP3 player doesn't 
> understand, so I have to go into a text editor and delete all the 
> instances of "/Volumes/Untitled".
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know anything about FAST TRAX players.  Dan, 
> have you tried it on any other computers?  It may simply be defective, 
> and you should return it for an exchange or refund.
>
> -- 
> Rich
> _______________________________________________

Greetings ( + )!( + )

This may be one of those instances where the device needs to be 
formatted on a WINTEL PC first before the Mac. will accept it being 
plugged in to the OS Platform. When my granddaughter got her iPod we 
initialized it on my Mac. and when she took it home it wouldn't work on 
their WINTEL. So she had to reformat the iPod on the WINTEL and loose 
all of the songs that were placed there while connected to my Mac.

After initializing the iPod on their WINTEL she was able to replace all 
of her songs and when she came back to my house the iPod would connect 
to my Mac. and everything worked just fine. She can also add songs to 
the iPod from my Mac.

So my advice would be to connect the FAST TRAX player to a WINTEL 
platform and then see if it will connect to the Mac.


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