Don’t worry, there’s nothing too technical coming up. Highlight 'name of Mp3 player here 1GB' (wording may vary slightly), and then select 'Format.' - this should erase everything.It all begins here, with your instructions. Pull down the drop down menu underneath the Sync tab by moving your cursor over the Sync tab and left clicking on the little black arrow underneath the Sync tab. You can also format the player in Windows Media Player itself:Ĭonnect your Mp3 player to the computer and open Windows Media Player. This only applies to Windows-based computers. Connect player to computer, double-click my computer, right click on icon of mp3 player and select format. WARNING: The following procedures will erase all songs on the player.Ĭheck if the file system is NTFS. Firmware upgrades are available from most manufacturers' websites. Sometimes reformatting in this manner will override the player's native formatting and cause problems - this can be reversed in most cases by updating the player's firmware.

Both methods will end up erasing all the songs on the player, but the player will be 'good as new' after that. There are two ways to format an Mp3 player - one on the computer itself, and one in Windows Media Player. When you try to download or sync the wrong file format, you will get one of the errors that I mentioned above. You will have to check your Mp3 player’s product specifications (specs) or user’s manual to find out which formats your particular Mp3 player recognizes. Each Mp3 player only recognizes a certain number of these formats. The most common music file formats are Mp3, WMA, AAC, WAV, RA, etc. I have seen quite a few threads around Fixya in which the stated problem is that the Mp3 or Digital Audio Player will not load the songs will appear to load the songs but will not actually play them in the Mp3 player once disconnected from computer will skip the songs on the player, or show only “0:00” for file length songs “disappear” all of a sudden (although this particular problem can be caused for many reasons not covered in this article) your store-bought/burned/ripped CD’s will not load into your Mp3 player or get the error message “File Format Not Supported.” All of these problems occur because the user is trying to download a song format that the player does not recognize.

Read my 'Tips and Tricks' on Song formats for Mp3 players: too long to repost here

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