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File format problems for i870 Mp3 Player
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Posted by: walkngdude

I have the i870 and have been trying out the MP3 player. It seems that this thing is very picky about the way you encode the files. I know you need to keep the file names below 32 characters but what gives? It seems to only recognize about half the files I put on the card.

I have a big music collection with some of them encoded from other people and some by me. I've used them on a Sony mini cd player, a JVC car stereo and an ipod without any problems.

When I rip my own disks I use Exact Audio Copy with the latest lame encoder as per this site
The Quintessential Guide to Creating High Quality MP3s by Chris Myden

The funny thing is that it rejects only about half of the files. Maybe it is that I'm using variable bit rate or I have some other setting too high. Seems a shame to have to resample down all the music I want to put on this thing.

Is anyone else having problems with this?

Thanks
Marc

Posted by: MATT85

yes if you read the manual it is very picky and says it has to be a standard(128,160,192,etc but not higher than 192) and constant bit rate and the filename must be less than 32 INCLUDING the extension .mp3 so really must be smaller than 28.
this is really stupid cause now i have to reformat like 1000's of songs if i want to put them all on here

Posted by: lizzzz903

yes but even when its on 128, it still doesnt let me fit more than like 7 or 8 songs.. does anyone have more than that on their 870?

Posted by: chadwick626

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Originally Posted by lizzzz903

yes but even when its on 128, it still doesnt let me fit more than like 7 or 8 songs.. does anyone have more than that on their 870?

buy a bigger card

Posted by: walkngdude

I found this thread
How to put songs into the i870 to use it as an Mp3 Player
And what seems to be working for me is resampling my mp3s through dbpoweramp then before I transfer them to the transflash card I shorten the file names and take out all the spaces. I worked so far.