On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:01:33 +0100 Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:09:05PM -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > I just purchased a Sandisk Sansa c250. The only problem is that it > > is real picky about id3 tags. All of my mp3's were recently > > re-tagged using Easytag. The c250 proceeds to lump them all as > > "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album." I then figured out that if I > > remove all the tags, and just tag the album and the artist thusly: > > id3tag -2 --album="Dancing In Jerusalem" --artist="Lamb" *.mp3 > > Fix your Sansa c250: www.rockbox.org > > Rui Hello This looks like what I needed, so I followed the following instructions: http://download.rockbox.org/manual/rockbox-sansac200/rockbox-buildch2.html#x4-60002 As root, installation went perfectly. [root@afolkey2 steve]# ./sansapatcher sansapatcher v0.5 with v3.0 bootloaders - (C) Dave Chapman 2006-2007 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. [INFO] Scanning disk devices... [INFO] c200 found - /dev/sda [INFO] Reading partition table from /dev/sda [INFO] Sector size is 512 bytes [INFO] Part Start Sector End Sector Size (MB) Type [INFO] 0 1017 3972095 1939.0 FAT16 (0x06) [INFO] 1 3972096 4013055 20.0 OS/2 hidden C: drive (0x84) Enter i to install the Rockbox bootloader, u to uninstall or c to cancel and do nothing (i/u/c) :i [INFO] Bootloader installed successfully. Press ENTER to exit sansapatcher : [root@afolkey2 steve]# The above linked instructions contained this, as well: 2.4. Running Rockbox Remove your player from the computer’s USB port. Unplug any connected power supply and turn the unit off. When you next turn the unit on, Rockbox should load. When you see the Rockbox splash screen, Rockbox is loaded and ready for use. So I did exactly as instructed. I unplugged the player from my computer and turned the player off. I then restarted the player and the Rockbox splash screen came up as referred to in the 2.4 section of the Rockbox documentation.Unfortunately, the screen then went black. I tried powering on the player again, and it appears to be deader than a doornail. This seems like such a shame, because I believe that Rockbox SHOULD work as described, and that I just had a unique (bad) experience. I hope I can at least get it powered up again and get Rockbox off the player, so I can return it to Staples and get my money back. Of course, I'd prefer to get Rockbox working on this player... Steven P. Ulrick
