Adam Hinz: The Blog
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On 2007-12-10 at 12/10/2007 10:25:00 PM...
Jens Lekman - Pocketful of MoneyIn my continuing saga with XP x64, I present my most excellent solution on how to get my iriver ifp-890 mp3 player to work.
I was still using the original firmware that came with it (part of the "if it ain't broke" mentality). Unfortunately, the drivers from the website did not agree with my fresh new 64 bit operating system.
I rad read some time earlier about someone who hacked this mp3 player to make it appear as any other usb storage device. Turns out it wasn't a hack at all, but instead a firmware upgrade from iriver.
Lucky for me, I still have my laptop which works (if I didn't have that, I'd probably fail miserable at getting anything working). I downloaded the firmware here:
http://www.iriver.com/support/down_view.asp?idx=832
and followed their instructions here:
http://www.iriver.com/support/faq_view.asp?idx=252
It was almost too easy. Now my mp3 player shows up as any other usb storage device, and I can drag and drop files right inside of explorer. Plus, this as the added benefit of most likely working with Ubuntu right out of the box.