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iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3

Aug 6, 2004 6:25AM PDT

I just bought an iRiver-790 for my husband, and I am trying to download songs from my iTunes folder on my Mac to the iRiver. I can't even get to this point, however. I spent 2 days just trying to get the music manager installed. Now that it is installed, the Mac doesn't recognize the USB connection. It says "device offline." Any support on the website is Windows related. Can anyone send me some simple instructions or a web link of some sort? Should I just return the whole thing and get something that is more Mac-friendly? Thanks.

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Re: iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3
Aug 6, 2004 6:31AM PDT

iTunes is all about iPod. Apple has not licensed playfair or such to any other company.

Bob

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Re: iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3
Aug 6, 2004 6:53AM PDT

Thanks for the info. I didn't want to spend that much money on an iPod. The bigger problem that I have is getting the system to work on my Mac. Do you have any suggestions?

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Re: iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3
Aug 6, 2004 9:57AM PDT

Then iTunes will not be in this picture...

Ask iRiver what to use on that OS.

Bob

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Re: iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3
Oct 21, 2004 2:58PM PDT

If you still have it, and it's not too late.

I don't have the 790, but I do have an iRiver iHP120. I think they should behave the same.

You don't use iTunes at all. When you plug your iRiver into the USB port, it should show up on your desktop as a USB drive. Now, in the FINDER, go to the Music folder on your Mac's hard drive. There should be a folder in there called iTunes music that contains all of the songs you're used to seeing in iTunes playlists- they'll probably be in folders by artist, then album.

Drag one of those artist folders to the iRiver's icon on the desktop.

Then (this is important) Control click the player's icon, and select "Eject." You're now free to unplug the USB cable, and you should see the songs on your MP3 player.

I don't know if your player supports AAC files, so the bad news is, if you bought your music from the Apple store, you can't take it with you.

Also, if you used iTunes to rip your CDs, it may have used AAC format instead of MP3. Go to iTunes' preferences under Importing and select "Import Using: MP3 Encoder." Then any CDs you rip (or re-rip) will be playable on your iRiver.

Good luck!

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Re: iRiver-790 on Mac OS X 10.3
Nov 9, 2004 12:57AM PST

If you can't get to it from the MAC, do you have a
spare PC or Linux box around? You can probably network
the two together & then copy the files to the Windows/
Linux box & then over to the MAC.

There must be some way a MAC can read a microsoft
hard drive on the USB port...hmm.

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