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Is there any clever boffins that could perhaps explain in lamens terms how to get SD cards to play MP3 in the RNS-E?

I have tried various methods via iTines, at 192kbps. I put a single song on the card to try it, and it played no problem. Then.... I put 20 or so more on the card (plenty of space left on 256meg card) and despite showing all the tracks, none of them play. The counter just reads 00:00 and nothing happends...

Any ideas? Very frustrating especially if one track works!

bobjebb wrote:Is there any clever boffins that could perhaps explain in lamens terms how to get SD cards to play MP3 in the RNS-E?

I have tried various methods via iTines, at 192kbps. I put a single song on the card to try it, and it played no problem. Then.... I put 20 or so more on the card (plenty of space left on 256meg card) and despite showing all the tracks, none of them play. The counter just reads 00:00 and nothing happends...

Any ideas? Very frustrating especially if one track works!

Are you encoding in MP3 and not the standard AAC in iTunes?

I have just loaded up a 2GB Kingston SD Card and it is working fine it takes forever to recode your files into mp3 from AAC, I am using 128 and the quality is perfect for the car and uses about 30% less than 192. The only limit I have been told is 512 files per card? and a file can either be a folder or a track

Thanks - by that it should work...?

all my songs in itunes are MP3, not AAC. Funnily enough I've just bought a Kingston 1gb card so I'll try that! Just couldn't work out why one song plays but when I add a bunch more nothing happends. I fiddle some more.

[quote="bobjebb"]Thanks - by that it should work...?

all my songs in itunes are MP3, not AAC. Funnily enough II have created all the albumns in folders with the tracks contained within

ie folder Coldplay - X&Y
the tracks within and so on

I did have a temp issue with mine that nothing would play but it seemed to miraculously cure itself when I ejected the card and put a blank in the slot then put the one with the tracks back in

I did experience a similar problem with one of my cards - with a couple of tracks it was fine, so I went ahead and filled the card just to find that it would no longer play. In the end I reformatted the card and put all the files back and it has been fine since.

thanks, I thought that would be worth trying. How do you re-format them by the way?

it will only play CBR mp3 files as well - constant bit rate - maybe thats a problem too

i have to resample my mp3s from vrb - the phatbox plays vbr no problems