knowledge is a habit

I’ve had a Sansa e260 player for about 18 months. Most of those months the player has lay idle because I grew tired of my MP3 collection and have not been able to successfully hook the player up to our household Real Rhapsody account.

Last night I gave it another shot. A firmware update came out from Sansa on 10-APR-2008 and I thought that might do the trick. Unfortunately it didn’t.

I did find a way to get Real Rhapsody music playing on the player though.

Pros:
Real Rhapsody tracks finally play on my e260!

Cons:
Anything currently on your player will be wiped. For me, that’s not a big deal because I usually load what I’m going to listen to it, listen to it, then I’m done with it. Lather rinse repeat.

Here’s what I did:
1) Make sure the player is authorized in Rhapsody. (It may not successfully play tracks, but it should still be able to be authorized.)
2) Switch to MSC (Mass Storage Class) transfer mode.
3) In explorer, right click on the player and select Format. Format it like you would a hard drive (I accepted the defaults for the formatting).
4) Switch back to MTP (Media Transfer Protocol).
5) Give it another shot. It worked for me.

Since the successful load of Real Rhapsody DRMed tracks I have not tried throwing a few of my old un-DRMed MP3s into the mix.

This may or may not apply to the e200, e220, e240, etc models. I bought an e240 for a family member and they have had zero problems with Rhapsody and have not had to take drastic measures like this.

– Dave

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