MSI Mega Player 540- User Manual

EASYPMP(1) EASYPMP(1)

NAME

easypmp − create music databases and playlists used by portable media players

SYNOPSIS

easypmp [-c|-u] [-t csv-word-list ] [-p [-P source-dir ] [-r ] [-f ] [-i]] [-R [-L level ]] [-d device-id ] [-s
name:value] [-e system-encoding] [-w tag-encoding] [mount-point ]
easypmp [-h|-x|-v|-l]

DESCRIPTION

easypmp is a command line utility used to create and maintain the music database and playlists on a variety
of portable media players.

Many portable music players allow the user to browse tracks by artist, album, genre, predefined playlists
etc. In order to do this efficiently, they require a database of track information. Without this database, the
player may require the user to browse tracks using only the directory structure. easypmp exists to create
music database and playlists, based on the tracks and playlists that are stored on the player.

Normally, easypmp is able to detect the type of any supported media player automatically. It does so by
comparing the files and directories found at the specified mount point with the list of files it expects to find
on each type of device that it supports. If no mount point is specified, the current working directory is
assumed to be the mount point.

In order to check that easypmp can identify the type of media player, the media player should be mounted
as a USB device. The program should then be run without any command line switches (although the mount
point should be specified if it is not the current directory). If the device is recognised, easypmp displays
information about the device, including the directories in which it expects to find music and playlists on
that device. If the device is not recognised, an error message to this effect is shown.

For a quick introduction on how to use easypmp, see the EXAMPLES section below.

DEVICE SUPPORT

easypmp currently only works with media players that can be mounted as USB Mass Storage (UMS)
devices. Specifically, it has been tested with the following devices:

* iRiver H100 series
* iRiver H300 series
* iRiver H10 UMS
* iRiver H10 MTP (with emergency connect mode)
* iRiver H10Jr. UMS
* iRiver U10 UMS
* iRiver E10 UMS
* MEDION MDJuke220 and MDJuke440
* Samsung YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925
* MSI MEGA PLAYER 540
* Philips HDD6320

Note that some of the iRiver devices listed above may not support UMS as shipped. For example, in
Europe and the United States, the iRiver U10 ships with support for a proprietary file transfer protocol
called Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). In order to use these devices with easypmp, it is necessary to re-
program (or ‘flash’) the firmware on the device to make it support UMS. This can be accomplished by run-
ning the iRiver firmware updater for iRiver products. At the time of writing this works with T10, T20, T30,
U10 and N12 models, with the exception of 256MB and 2GB models in these series. The firmware updater
can be downloaded from:

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