IRiver H10

MP3 Player by IRiver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iriver_H10_series

http://www.misticriver.net/wiki/index.php/H10

I bought a 20GB refurb.

Now I have to get it to work with my IBook, since the bundled software is MsWindows only.

There's an EasyH10 Open Source app. And there was recently a Cocoa version posted.

But it doesn't seem to be working for me... the mounting isn't happening.

Ah, it turns out the "UMS trick" is necessary: use paperclick on the Reset button, then hold Select button then press powerUp until get "Emergency Connect" message on screen then let go. Then it showed up as a Volume.

I can just copy folders of music over.

But then I can only play them through the Browser, which seems a bit clunky...

Ah, now I run EasyH10, and Rebuild the Database. That looks like it did something....

• nope, no apparent effect. Nothing listed by title, artist, album, etc.

Made a playlist in ITunes, exported to XML, ran against an online WebApp to convert to m3u. Ah, the tutorial says to copy that folder onto the H10 down inside the Music folder.

• but then got lots of error messages because the file paths were all Mac paths... so I edited in a Text Editor

Then found that the H10 doesn't like directories with an apostrophe in it. So renamed a folder, tweaked the playlist again.

Then found that I needed to manually create a Playlists directory on the H10!

It ended up finally creating the Playlist file, but somehow it ends up getting overwritten by an empty (except for header) file. While the H10 is connected over USB, I can open the file and read real content, but once I disconnect (without saving the file I just sniffed in), the playlist doesn't seem to contain anything (browsing with the H10 interface), then when I reconnect over USB the file is empty again.

There's a Rock Box [port](http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/Iriver H10 Port) underway