Hi,1st post . Any advice greatly appreciated on this . I have donwloaded music torrents through uTorrent ,I can play them on windows media player and have saved them on my hard drive as mp3 format sound , but when i tried transfer them to my iRiver I got a "property loss" message . It said " the file has propeties which cannot be copied to the new location" . Any help ? Thanks in advance .
congrats! and welcome... I'm not familiar with iriver, but i do know that some players wont play vbr mp3s. or only support certain bitrates. also, some require id3 tags. Install dbpoweramp(free). then, when you hover over an mp3, a balloon pops up telling you all available info on the file. i suggest googling it, or find stuff that works, and compare its properties to the stuff that wont. Also, firmware upgrade? check out iriver website for software upgrades. Good Luck! P
ta for the reply , and excellent tool . Sadly I havent solved the problem yet. I converted the mp3 to wav files but the same thing happened it said , When I try send it to my mp3 player , a box appears headed "Property Loss" and says "are you sure you want to copy this file without it properties" "the file (name of song) has properties that canot be copied to the new location ....... help please , Im a dope when it come to these things . Thnaks again.
ok... first you need to figure out which properties it doesnt like. did you install dbpoweramp? if yes, than it is the key to figuring this out. I have a feeling yer player doesnt like vbr mp3. or bitrate is too high or low. in case you dont know, bitrate is the number of bits per second the mp3 plays at. vbr(variable bitrate) means during busy parts of the song the bitrate goes up, quiet times it goes down(results in higher quality, but some players dont like vbr ). cbr is constant bitrate(same throughout). the most common bitrate is 128kps. this is most compatible, but there is some quality loss(depends on encoder tho). do you have mp3s on the thing that work? if so, use the dbpwramp to see its properties. take note of bitrate# and cbr or vbr. also, id3 tag version. also, at the bottom of the bubble it should have track name,#, album, artist,year,etc... (all of that info is the id3tag). some players require these tags for library function. then compare results with the ones that dont work. this way, you can figure out what it doesnt like. I googled your problem, and you are not alone. others have the same issue. however, no one actually posted the what these things like/dont like. so we are stuck with process of elimination. the other possibility is that it dont like your id3tags. this one is easy. a program called tag and rename is your answer. get it! i have almost 300gig of mp3s. some ripped myself, some downloaded, some from friends, etc... so the tags were all different. many players use tags to organize your music. so they must match, otherwise you get separate artist listings for Smashing Pumpkins, smashing pumpkins, the smashing pumpkins, you get the idea... get through the nasty mp3 issue first, then worry about that(unless id3 tags are your whole problem) It could be that the lack of say, the "artist" field of id3 is what is pissing it off. again, trial and error. best of luck! hope i am helpful to you. let me know how you make out. You can pm me if you dont want your questions posted to everyone else. Merry Crhistmas! P
Hi again, i think i have done what you have advised me so far (woudnt bet on it but)and now ican send files to my mp3 player. the files are visable on my desktop screen along side other previously stored tracks(which play) BUT when i disconnect from the computer my players doesnt show them and therefore I can;t play them . I checked out the hard drive on the player and the songs are in there but just not seen and therefore not able to be played . Thanks for your help , must appreciated as my head is melted .
After rereading your message phil i googled vbr mp3s and found a torrent download , dowloaded it and transfered it to my mp3 player and bobs your aunty it worked ............now my problem seems to be how to get all the mp3 files i have downloaded turned into vbr mp3s !!!!!!! Any ideas ? [/img][/img]
RESULT!!!!!!!!!!!! After learning what i did in the last post I went back to dBpoweramp and converted all (well 20 so far) to mp3 LAME and it worked !!!! thanks for your help and time philzeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr !!! happy christmas to you and yours . *next problem is to sort out my ports firewall and router settings ....but for now ....I m happy . Ta.
btw... its a good idea to stay with the lame encoder. it is widely considered the best, and its free!
