Sony Walkman USB fail

[Knapp]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Pete <psmouty at live.com> wrote:
> On 14/01/11 08:11, Knapp wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Fletcher<dave at thefletchers.net>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 19:03 +0100, Knapp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello, I have  a sony walkman music player that is having a really
>>>> hard time uploading. It sometimes will upload a few files but then the
>>>> connection icon vanishes. It often only uploads part of the file. This
>>>> often seems to happen when there is an error like can't change
>>>> permissions. Any ideas about how to fix this. It seemed to happen with
>>>> other players too.
>>>>
>>>> I have mostly tried with Dolphin but with other ways too, same results.
>>>>
>>>> (uploading; from computer to player)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I only have an old iRiver player, so whether my method will work or not
>>> I don't know, but it might be worth a try:-
>>>
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2007-November/022195.html
>>
>> Thanks for the idea. I gave it a go and got this error.
>>
>> douglas4 at frog:~/Walkman$ rsync -rvtW --delay-updates --modify-window=1
>> /home/douglas4/Walkman /media/WALKMAN/MUSIC/
>> building file list ... done
>> Walkman/
>> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/
>> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/01-06 of 16.m4a
>> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/07-12 of 16.m4a
>> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]:
>> Broken pipe (32)
>> Unable to create partial-dir for Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of
>> Pern/01-06 of 16.m4a -- discarding completed file.
>> rsync: write failed on "/media/WALKMAN/MUSIC/Walkman/Pern 13 - The
>> Renegades of Pern/07-12 of 16.m4a": Input/output error (5)
>> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(302)
>> [receiver=3.0.7]
>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (53 bytes received so far) [sender]
>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
>> io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Hi,
> Have more info than a solution!! in my winxp days my sony mp3 player needed
> a win programme called 'sonic stage' in order for that to work with xp?! to
> the best of my knowledge it converted the file to 'openmg'? that was a
> unique sony format! as i have since got rid off the sony item i cannot test
> on buntu for you but hope this may point towards a solution.
>
> regards
>
> Pete

Thanks but I don't think this is the problem. I have uploaded music
files and listened to them (Sometimes it works). This is some sort of
USB problem, I think.


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