rejection hurts my mp3s

August 13, 2006 6:38 AM

I have an iRiver h110. Some of my mp3s files behave normally in winamp and Windows Media 10, but are seemingly rejected by the H110 when I try to add them (error message from WMP is something like "may be wrong file type" but they're mp3s, which are supported). I thought that maybe it was corrupt tags and I tried rewriting them, but to no avail.

They're big files (episodes of Chris Morris's "On The Hour") but I have hour-and-half Eddie Izzard routines that run fine. So I feel fairly confident that it isn't file size. Any ideas?

posted by Mayor Curley to technology (6 comments total)

How are you putting files on the iRiver? Using Windows Media player? Try just dragging and dropping in Explorer.
posted by Orange Goblin at 6:52 AM on August 13, 2006

The h110 handles 32Kbps - 320Kbps, so it's probably not out of the bitrate range.

Could it be filesize? The Eddie Izzard stuff might be encocded at a lower bitrate and thus smaller.
posted by Busy Old Fool at 7:21 AM on August 13, 2006

episodes of Chris Morris's "On The Hour"

I had the exact same problem with the exact same files, as well as most episodes of Blue Jam. Are these the ones from Cook'd and Bomb'd? Don't know why the WMP sync didn't work, but draging and dropping the files on to the player did.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 8:42 AM on August 13, 2006

I had the exact same problem with the exact same files, as well as most episodes of Blue Jam. Are these the ones from Cook'd and Bomb'd? Don't know why the WMP sync didn't work, but draging and dropping the files on to the player did.

They are indeed. Spooky. I'm not having luck with drag and drop, so I guess I have to re-encode the files.
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:10 PM on August 13, 2006

I have a similar problem with a sony mp3 player. I use DBpoweramp to re-encode the files at the same bitrate, and then they work.

Since most of what I listen to is spoken (podcasts / audio books etc) I don't notice any loss of quality.
posted by tomble at 4:32 PM on August 13, 2006

I'm not having luck with drag and drop

I just reread the question, and while we've got the same files, we've actually got different models (I have an H10).
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:46 PM on August 13, 2006