Can musicmatch work on any MP3 player or does the player have to be designed to handle musicmatch?
Is there a software program that all MP3 players can use or does each one have its own seperate software program.
I don’t know if this is obvious, but by software program I mean a program that allows you to transfer files (usually MP3s) from your hard drive onto the player and back again.
While i’m on the subject, what about flash drives. Is there a unviersal program for them or does each brand have its own software that isn’t compatible with others?
Musicmatch is two things. It is a program that can organize, tag, and play your music, on the computer. It is also a service where you can buy music in WMA format for $1 per song or $10 per album.
Any handheld mp3 player should come with the software you need to use it. They probably can’t all use the same software, but it doesn’t matter because each one has its own, which is packaged with it.
I have an iRiver iHP-120, and it does play WMAs, but it won’t play the songs I’ve downloaded from Musicmatch, because of security controls placed on the files.
Does this begin to answer your questions? I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking.
I just bought a Philips SA230 MP3 player on ebay which didn’t have software. I then downloaded musicmatch software and can use that to transfer files from my computer onto my MP3 player. Musicmatch has a tab called something like ‘manage portable device’ which after you plug your MP3 player in lets you delete and add MP3 files. My question is will musicmatch be able to transfer files onto most MP3 players or just MP3 players specifically designed for musicmatch? What about flashdrives, is there a software program that will transfer info onto most models or does each model have its own software?
I’m not talking about songs downloaded from musicmatch, just the software itself.
There is not any software that I know of that will support ANY MP3 player, because the MP3 players themselves are not-yet standardized. Of course being a semi-old fart I am talking of the RAM-based players, but now we have HD-based players that also work as external drives… so there might be a way, if not with Musicmatch Jukebox, with some other utility. There are how hacks for transferring files bakc off the iPods, but they are illegal and currently moving DCMA targets for download (I don’t know where to get so don’t ask, but I have read of them). If you have a newer MP3 player, that is… But I have a Rio R500 RAM MP3-player from a few years back and tried to load songs onto it with Musicmatch once and got an error message. I downloaded my haxored version of Musicmatch quite some time ago, but in it there is a short list of about 8 different players that it supported–and even at that time, there were way more than 8 different players available.
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Oh, I see. Yes, there is a list of players Musicmatch does support, and if a player is not on that list, you have to use some other method to connect it to your computer. Mine (iRiver iHP-120) is not on the list, so I have to use the software that came with it, which is basically just a driver which allows you to treat the player as an external USB hard drive. Which is more or less what it is, actually. But I digress. I thought the list of players supported by Musicmatch was on musicmatch.com somewhere, but I can’t find it now. Maybe I’m just not looking hard enough.
The issue is much deeper than how you copy the files to your MP3 player. I have a Philips player, for which copying files is easy (it is the same thing as a flash drive, so you just drag files over from a Windows folder). But mine has no Digital Rights Management (DRM) capability, and all music purchased online is protected with DRM. So I am forced to record a purchased song to an analog CD, then rip the CD to an unprotected MP3 file. I can then copy that file to my player and listen to it.