Sony Walkman USB fail

[Pete]

On 14/01/11 08:11, Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Fletcher<dave at thefletchers.net>  wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 19:03 +0100, Knapp wrote:
>>> Hello, I have  a sony walkman music player that is having a really
>>> hard time uploading. It sometimes will upload a few files but then the
>>> connection icon vanishes. It often only uploads part of the file. This
>>> often seems to happen when there is an error like can't change
>>> permissions. Any ideas about how to fix this. It seemed to happen with
>>> other players too.
>>>
>>> I have mostly tried with Dolphin but with other ways too, same results.
>>>
>>> (uploading; from computer to player)
>>>
>>
>> I only have an old iRiver player, so whether my method will work or not
>> I don't know, but it might be worth a try:-
>>
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/2007-November/022195.html
>
> Thanks for the idea. I gave it a go and got this error.
>
> douglas4 at frog:~/Walkman$ rsync -rvtW --delay-updates --modify-window=1
> /home/douglas4/Walkman /media/WALKMAN/MUSIC/
> building file list ... done
> Walkman/
> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/
> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/01-06 of 16.m4a
> Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of Pern/07-12 of 16.m4a
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]:
> Broken pipe (32)
> Unable to create partial-dir for Walkman/Pern 13 - The Renegades of
> Pern/01-06 of 16.m4a -- discarding completed file.
> rsync: write failed on "/media/WALKMAN/MUSIC/Walkman/Pern 13 - The
> Renegades of Pern/07-12 of 16.m4a": Input/output error (5)
> rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(302) [receiver=3.0.7]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (53 bytes received so far) [sender]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]
>
>
>
>
Hi,
Have more info than a solution!! in my winxp days my sony mp3 player 
needed a win programme called 'sonic stage' in order for that to work 
with xp?! to the best of my knowledge it converted the file to 'openmg'? 
that was a unique sony format! as i have since got rid off the sony item 
i cannot test on buntu for you but hope this may point towards a solution.

regards

Pete