My Sansa e260 wont let me put music on it, i already switched it to MTP after resetting it on MSC.. so now my device is completely black.. ive tried putting songs on it, they say there schrontonizing from my computer to my sansa but when i turn my sansa on it says "no songs"
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For this issue, the reason why you're receiving this message is that some of the songs that are loaded on your Sansa is already corrupted and the only way you can resolve this is to format the MP3 player. This is a known issue with this particular player, specially if your combining the MTP mode and the MSC mode. MTP mode is your device will show as a Multimedia device under your computer and allows you syncronize your songs using Windows Media player . MSC (Mass Storage Class) mode lets you drag and drop songs directly to the player under windows explorer just like a flash drive.
If you want to format your device, the best recommendation is to
place it into MSC mode. This is the Sansa's mass storage mode and it
allows the device to be treated as a drive. Go to the settings menu and
find USB Mode. There are two choices, MSC and MTP. Choose MSC. MTP
is for music transfer using a media player software like Windows Media
Player. If you don't have a way to set MSC mode with a menu on the
device, engage the 'hold' switch, and while holding down the left
or right button (others report also using the center button), plug the
device into the USB connector. Make sure the USB is already plugged
into the computer. You shouldn't need to do this with a standard e250;
the menu should work.
After you have connected the
device in MSC mode, right click My Computer and choose Manage from the
menu. Find Disk Management and select it. The disks should be
numbered, starting with 0 for the C: drive. You should see a drive that
says SANSA E250, or something similar. Write down the type of file
system if it is shown. My e260 says FAT32. I believe that the 2MB
e250s are FAT, but check to be sure. There will be two partitions on
the disk. The larger of the two is for your music files. The smaller
is for when the device goes into "hibernation" - it's so you'll be back
to the exact same song when it powers back on. Right click the larger
partition and choose Format from the menu. You will see the format
dialog. Set the volume label to SANSA E250 (I believe that's your
device type), set the file system to what you wrote down earlier (do NOT choose NTFS!) and
leave the Allocation unit size at "Default." Do not check either of
the two check boxes. Click on OK. Keep an eye on the partition in Disk
Management and you will see the percent complete.
When
it's done, look in the System Tray (by the date and time). You should
see an icon for safely removing hardware. Double-click it to bring up
the safely remove hardware dialog. Click on the USB drive representing
your Sansa device and click Stop. Another dialog will come up and
you'll have to do this again. Close the dialog when the device has
stopped. The device will restart and initialize the music database.
You're done! Now change to MTP mode and sync the device.
Whenever you are in MSC mode, ALWAYS
stop the device as I described in the paragraph above. That way you
won't corrupt the drive. Hopefully. I haven't yet. My e260 is a gem!
Usb mode is in settings push center button choose between msc or mtp....
MSC
will allow you to see the expansion card mtp won't.....MTP shows you your music folder in the media folder thats where you put your music
plus expansion.....If no usb mode the player is manufactored to be in msc mode....
make sure your usb 2.0 driver
is installed....... Connect to the mother board.. MSC is best create a music1 folder and put music in there then there is no switching back and forth to mtp ms....MSC can sync the player and the expansion card
MSC will allow you to see the expansion card ( 2Gig E200 series 4gig Fuze) mtp won't.....MTP shows you your music folder in the media folder thats where you put your music plus expansion..... make sure your usb 2.0 driver is installed..Syncing to wmplayer puts music in the mtp music folder. change usb modes again and use the explorer to see the sansa msc lets you sync any Q/A IM or email me @ [email protected]
Usb mode is in settings push center button choose between msc or mtp.... MSC will allow you to see the expansion card mtp won't.....MTP shows you your music folder in the media folder thats where you put your music plus expansion.....If no usb mode the player is manufactored to be in msc mode make sure your usb 2.0 driver is installed
Resetting the device:
1. Press and hold the Power/Menu button for approximately 20 seconds.
2. Release the Power/Menu button.
3. Press the Power/Menu button again to turn on the player.
NOTE: Resetting will turn the player off while it is frozen.
Look, I think the best thing to do is to return the product. Normally, they gave you a new one. My old one broke with a blank screen. So the bestbuy guy talked to his manager and gave me a new one.
Have you tried re-formatting while in MSC mode? I've had quite a bit of success with repairing some memory issues with simple reformat. (Fat32). My wife's was showing almost no memory and no music at all. I reformatted and reloaded her music and it works great!
Hi.
I hope this info would help:
Your Sansa E260 has 2 modes: MTP (Music Transfer Protocol) and MSC (Mass Storage Class). Your Operating System recognizes each mode differently, and music files saved in one mode would not be seen when you switch to the other mode, and vice versa.
Try switching to each of these modes, then plug it to your computer and browse the player. To switch modes, use the following menu navigation:
Menu >> Settings >> USB Mode
This would give the choice of MTP and MSC.
I sync music to my Sansa, and it shows up on the playlist, but wont play when clicked on...
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