Upgraded my Iriver T30 from MTP to UMS
I bought this semi cool mp3 player the iriver T30 and i honestly loved it upon till the point wwhen i just started using linux and i pluged it in and nothing happend. I realized that i madde a big mistake in researching the device i didn’t check if it was plat form dependent.. the damn thing was dependent on windows media player or it would not work. if media player 10 was not present on the machine then you could not sync mp3s to it it would not even pick up the device at all.
My resolution was to sell the device and purchase a flash based mp3 player maybe a sansa or a muvo but then i got wind of a firmware upgrade software directly from iriver that allows conversion from MTP to UMS (USB MAS STORAGE - just like a thumb drive).
Finally did it at work today as i have no computer running any microsoft anything… 
on disconnecting the device it said please do not touch installing new firmware it rebooted i pluged it in to my nix book and bam there it was. So now i’m good to go.
Ontop of that my dear sister offered me an ipod (shufflel) but still its an ipod and its free so I accepted should be getting it some time next month.
September 28th, 2006 at 12:43 am
? I consider myself a techie, but I’m not really into music, so I don’t really get most of the technical terms.
September 28th, 2006 at 2:02 am
oh no.. my appologies leon.. its smy fault i guess i’m a bad blogger for not completely explaining.. um.. MTP means its a media player based Device meaning it will not pick up unless media player is installed on the system they can lock it to a particular version or a minimum required version my iriver T30 was a minimum requirement of media player 10 my little firmware upgrade got it to become a UMS device meaning USB MASS STORAGE. making it like a thumb drive where u see it as a drive in my computer and you can just dump stuff on it..
This is extremely useful to me becuase i run linux as my operating system and media player doesn’t exist there (well technically it can but i dont wanna run any ms products in linux) and thats what it basically was about.