Copying iTunes songs to an RCA Lyra MP3 player
Sep 17, '03 10:26:00AM • Contributed by: slytle
I have an RCA Lyra MP3 Player. When I bought it, the box said that it was Finder Drag and Drop Compatible (meaning there is no iTunes support). The problem lies in the fact that the Lyra sees the resource fork of Mac files as another file. On the MP3 player's display, instead of seeing the 20 files I copied over, I saw 40 files, half of which said "Invalid File Format."
The solution was to use the cp command in the Terminal to copy just the data fork. You can copy the files to another folder on your Mac, and then use the Finder to copy to the Lyra, or copy them directly to the Lyra using the Terminal. The only downside to the second approach is that you don't get feedback as to when the transfer is complete. The best way to tell is to look at the MP3 player's display.
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