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rangor gubbins
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: windows exlorer and its lack of exploring with my MP3 player |
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not sure if this goes into the hardware or software section (feel free to move mr impar  )
got myself a very nice little 4GB sony walkman NWZ-A816. It all seems to work fine apart from one thing: when i plug it into my PC (win XP SP3) i can't see it in explorer. Others with same player and OS can see their sony players in explorer, so mine should show up.
I can still upload and remove songs using winamp, and i can see it in the device manager (under portable devices->WALKMAN), but if i go to Disk Management it does not show up. Very odd huh.
It also doesn't show in the 'safely remove hardware' taskbar icon, but when i first plug it in, a mp3 player icon pops up, and autoplay asks if i want to use winamp to manage this or take no action. no other options.
Anyone got any ideas why and how to fix?
I don't have (nor do i want) windows media player installed. |
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wonkanoby
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my walkman just shows under portable devices
were did you expect to see it
you just open it up and copy paste mp3 into its music folder |
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rangor gubbins
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:06 am Post subject: |
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| but where do you access your 'portable devices'? my walkman doesn't show up in 'my computer' or explorer so i have no way to copy folders into it. |
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wonkanoby
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:26 am Post subject: |
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no its there in my computor
i thought you mean in was not seen as a drive |
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wonkanoby
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| try deleting every thing under usb in device manaker and let it be redetected |
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rangor gubbins
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| wonkanoby wrote: |
| try deleting every thing under usb in device manaker and let it be redetected |
it doesn't come up under the USB controllers in 'device manager', it comes up under 'windows portable devices'.
I've tried un-installing then re-installing it, but it made no difference. |
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rangor gubbins
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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found some kind of temp fix. I un-installed the walkman and re-installed as a USB device instead of an MTP.
Now i can see the walkman in Explorer but can no longer use winamp to transfer files.  [burger].
Looks like i have to change drivers for the device depending how i want to use it. USB driver for using as flash drive, MTP driver for managing with winamp. |
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