Hey guys I got my new player today and I'm in the process of dumping bout 8GB onto it how long should thios take. The files are all stored as mp3 with average of 4Mb per file through a standard USB port

its not usb 2.0?? hmmph. were looking at hours upon hours here.

good luck man. today as i was transfering 10 albums or so, the program crashed and i lost half the music on my hd5... i ended up formating it and starting over :-/

ditto, had to "initialise" the HDD in options to recover the lost space when SonicStage crashed during a transfer over USB1.

Originally Posted by hyperbiggy5000

Hey guys I got my new player today and I'm in the process of dumping bout 8GB onto it how long should thios take. The files are all stored as mp3 with average of 4Mb per file through a standard USB port

using a usb2 port on my system, 11gig (3300 tracks) of 128mb mp3's takes about 45 mins in total to "convert" and transfer to my hd-5.

** by "convert" i mean transfering as mp3's (applying the .OMA wrapper) - not converting to Atrac.

total time was 8hr 10 mins think i'll get a USB 2.0 card for future use.

Originally Posted by hyperbiggy5000

total time was 8hr 10 mins think i'll get a USB 2.0 card for future use.

Let me give you a USB 2 tip that is critically important....

1) get a Belkin USB 2 card
2) get a Belkin USB 2 card
3) get a Belkin USB 2 card

Its sooooooo worth the extra money - cheapo asian unbranded cards can be a total nightmare which dont work AND crash/freeze your pc - adding usb2 functionality to a pc is a total minefield - the Belkin cards just drop in and go with any pc and they do a combo for about £20 which has 4 usb2 ports and a firewire port

Trust me on this.

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Originally Posted by Mike_manchester

Let me give you a USB 2 tip that is critically important....

1) get a Belkin USB 2 card
2) get a Belkin USB 2 card
3) get a Belkin USB 2 card

Its sooooooo worth the extra money - cheapo asian unbranded cards can be a total nightmare which dont work AND crash/freeze your pc - adding usb2 functionality to a pc is a total minefield - the Belkin cards just drop in and go with any pc and they do a combo for about £20 which has 4 usb2 ports and a firewire port

Trust me on this.

I've got a D-Link DUB-C2 on order because it says it draws power from the cardbus and does not need an external power adapter / usb power lead.

Has anyone had any experience of these please?

http://www.dlink.co.uk/?go=jN7uAYLx/...7l3abpJ0cVue7e