Sony MP3

One of Barb’s sewing friends asked me to come over to her house and install some music on her new iPod Mini.  So I put some music from my collection that I thought she would like on my memory stick and brought it over to her house.  It took a little figuring but in a few minutes I had all the music on her iPod.  In exchange, she gave me her collection of eBooks which included over 2000 recent books from popular authors.  I was very happy and Barb even bought me a Kindle reader on eBay to put the books on since she likes using my old eBook reader.  Now we have two eBook readers.

A couple of weeks later, I asked her husband if she liked the music that I put on her iPod because I thought maybe she wouldn’t like my music.  He said yes she did like it.  He said she often hooks her iPod into the television speakers and plays my music all over the house.  She told Barb that she listens to my music while she sews in her sewing room and sings out loud with her headphones on.  She said she doesn’t know how her husband stands it.

A couple of weeks later, Barb gets a message from this lady’s best friend asking me to put the same music on her iPod.  I said okay.  She comes over and I find out that it is not an iPod, it is a Sony MP3 player.  I thought okay this should be easy.  I load music on my MP3 player all the time.  So the first thing I do is move all of her music over to my computer.  Then I reformat her MP3 player using Windows Explorer.  Then I try to copy over my music but it doesn’t work.

I look up Sony MP3 players and find out that you need special software to load music on this type of MP3 player.  So I found that I can update the firmware on her MP3 player and I have to format the MP3 player using special software.  But I find that Sony is no longer distributing the software to load music.  So I search and search the web and I am up until 3 am and having no success.

I told her I would bring the MP3 over to her house at 4:30 the next day while I am on my walk.  I get up at 11 am the next day and Barb is at a pickleball tournament or she would have never allowed me to work on the problem all day long.  I eventually find some software to replace the Sony software but I can’t get it to work because it only works on a Windows XP operating system.

I try using my Windows XP emulators but it still doesn’t work.  Then I find it on my Linux distribution but that doesn’t work either.  Finally, I download the software in Linux using the Open Source provider and am able to run the software using the command line.  At 4 pm, I start loading music on her MP3 player and I have finished by 4:30 so that I can bring it over to her house during my walk like I said I would.  For my troubles, she gives me a little jar of home made Salsa.