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Alba PRDAB200MP3 - "no songs to play" ?I have an Alba PRDAB200MP3 mp3 player. When I try to play mp3s I get the message "no songs to play."
I have a 2GB SD memory card. I can insert this card directly into my PC and copy files to the card. I then put the card into the mp3 player. I can't understand why the player won't play the tracks. I can navigate through the folders, but when I press play the device says "no songs to play".
What am I doing wrong?
Sarah December 2007
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The last post is definitely the right fix - it can't cope with playing files more than 1 folder deep.
It'll browse them fine, just won't play them.
Yes that's crap, but the DAB radio on it is great - the MP3 is a (slightly flakey) bonus.
James
James Heath January 2008 |
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Hi Garry
Thanks again for your reply. I wonder why the player should not like a 2Gb card? It should be irrelevant surely?
Can you post your findings on Amazon? I might be a useful warning to people since Amazon specifically sell this combo. It might also provide sufficient ammo for those of us being lumbered with this product to request a refund.
Cheers
Tim
Tim January 2008 |
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Tim, I phoned Alba and they also said dont use a 2GB memory card use a 1GB memory as the MP3 dose not like it. I told them that Amazon sell them with a 2GB memory card and they said they should'nt.
Garry
Garry January 2008 |
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Thanks for your reply Gary but what you describe is the typical way to load up the memory card with files.
Have tried renaming the folders etc but it makes no difference. I have 5000+ MP3s and uploading any combination of them fails to work. Not one MP3 will play. I can navigate around the folders and see the tracks listed, but trying to play anything sees the machine blink then give up and display "no files found". Can play them directly from the card but the device simply ignores everything.
Incidentally, none of the MP3s have DRM and all are encoded with standard settings.
Bottom line is that this product is rubbish. And absolutely no support from Alba themselves.
Tim January 2008 |
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I had the same problem, the way I fixed it was as follows. Dont load the songs in as a file, open up the F drive and delete anything that is on it so it is empty, then reduce it in size but still keep it open on your desktop, then open your music folder and again reduce it in size so you know have 2 open folders on your desktop 1 is the f drive which is your memory card and the other is your music folder. then choose the song you want to copy, open that folder until you get to the list of songs that that folder contains you will see a blue musical note with WMA underneath it then simply drag and drop or copy and paste, when you get use to doing it this way try to drag and drop or cut and paste and album at a time by high lighting them all. the only time i find it dos'nt play is when you put it on shuffle. Hope this helps I downloaded about 200 songs last night and it seems to be working well at the moment.
Garry Colling January 2008 |
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I have exactly the same problem. I loaded 100s of files to the SD card and the machine plays NONE of them. The files dont have DRM and play perfectly well on other devices and even when accessing the card directly via the USB.
The file/folder name suggestion makes no difference so it seems that the Alba just refuses to recognise the files no matter how they are organised or named.
A rubbish product.
Tim December 2007 |
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I have had this problem.
I could be down to the way you are storing music on the card. Folder structure seems to be important.
This will work:
Leona Lewis - Spirit\1 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love.mp3
This won't work:
Leona Lewis\Spirit\1 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love.mp3
LLJ December 2007 |
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