Let's say you have several hundred CDs full of mp3s and/or other data, but you don't want to go searching through them all the time to find stuff. Just dump their contents into a bunch of searchable text files ( Read more... )

When my iRiver first arrived, it still contained music from its previous owner; about 1GB of it was classical music that I hung onto, in case I ever wanted to hear it. Today I copied some of it back onto the drive and let it get shuffled in, and I recognized a theme from a Beethoven symphony ( Read more... )

Received a new Toshiba MK3006GAL hard drive this week, but didn't have the proper screwdriver to open up the iRiver and perform surgery on it until yesterday. Removing the old hard drive (R.I.P.) and replacing it with the new one was far quicker and easier than expected; no unidentifiable parts fell out. The device almost seemed to fail to boot, ( Read more... )