If I download video music on an sd card with this using a mac, it won't seem to play at all on a sd card music player. Do I need to use a video sd player?
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Your music player probably only recognizes audio-only formats like MP3. So you can't just copy video files over and have it read them. But you can extract the audio portion and save it on the sd card, and then your player should be able to handle it. There are a bunch of ways to do this - probably the simplest is to use a third-party app like Video Converter for Mac. But you can do it directly with something like iMovie - import the video, then export only the sound portion to another file.
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Good question, I was looking for that question and saw yours. I have a 500GB that I assume is no problem. I have read it plays some AVI files and not others, depending on codec.
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Milton, my daughter put it on a SD card I think it's called (I'm not the techno expert) and in order to edit it you have to have certain program. She has a Mac computer and it wouldn't load on mine. PS It was a total waste of money as far as I'm concerned. The sound is absolutely horrible, mumbly and behind lips moving, and it takes forever to transfer from each vhs tape cause you have to play it through. Maybe you have faster way to do it.
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I'm having the same issue. I have an Ipod 80GB classic. I tried to use it, and couldn't get it to work after following the directions. The audio plays, but not the video. I called Philips support and was told that Apple was blocking the video on the Classic. I called Apple and was told there was no issue of which they were aware, but I should try an Apple retail store. In short, everyone wanted to pass the buck. It's a shame because the unit is very nice, but if I can't use the Ipod feature with the Classic, it's not very practical.
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Yes, you can load music onto the Sansa Clip from a Mac. The software Sandisk supplies does not work on Mac, so updating firmware or reformatting might get tricky for us on Macs. But even without software, the Clip mounts on the Mac desktop fine. Drag-an-drop MP3 files into the music folder on the Clip and song titles show and they play correctly. Great player for the money.
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I have been able to play .mov, .avi, .mkv .jpg and mp3 files.So far I haven't found any video files that it won't play.It has played on the TV and any computer connected to my network.
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Hello Alex, Even with slower class 4 SD card still generated fast enough transfer rate (read/write) to play back a HD video. The one I used is SanDisk ultra 64GB class 10 I bought it from amazon, it work just fine. I have noted that way back when I downloaded more than a dozen of free apps from google play store based on rating and testing them to see which one work best and found out that many media (video) player program are in premature development stage, their playback are sluggish and freezing all the time, few others are just ok because they are too simple and lacks of features, but the only one I am interested is the MX player, my search ended and this MX player is the only one I using today on my Samsung s3 cellphone and my new Samsung tab 3 I just bought from amazon. regardless HD or SD the playback is flawlessly with this MX player. I think before you spend more money for faster SD card may be you should download and try this MX player to see if the poor video playback problem solved if not then switch to faster class10 SD memory card. Remember after you download and open the player for the first time, it may prompt to download CODE for the MX player to work properly. Once the player open, select a file you want to play them then go-to setting by select tool/setting/decoder and place check marks on all those check box that uses H/W+ decoder, then you are done and all of your video now should playback smoothly. By the way I had been using this MX player for the past 2 plus years until today. I hope this help and good luck!
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I just started using the 8gb on an iMac with Leopard. After connecting the Walkman, it appears as a device mounted in the finder. One can just drag-n-drop items to the appropriate folder on the Walkman (VIDEO for movies, MUSIC for, well, music). The problem I'm having is determining the exact type of file formats it supports. It will play music downloaded from iTunes no problem--both protected and unprotected files. It will not, however, play files I rip from a CD with iTunes using its Apple Lossless Encoding. This boggles my mind. I am also having a terrible time trying to get movies to work. The Sony website has a tutorial explaining that video files need to be 320x240. Fine. I used Handbrake to convert a file to this size. It's encoded as H.264/AVC, which the Walkman documentation says is correct. It still won't play. So, it's definitely not as easy as an ipod. But, it sounds a lot better, and that's what counts. Meanwhile I'm sure I'll figure these things out--but the average user's head will probably explode trying to deal with this.
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But how do you go about putting videos onto your card. Can you just click and drag stuff out of your itunes library and drop them off in the Removable Disk "g" folder? If not please tell me in detail!
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You can use an SD card or a USB flash drive to store audio files, but they must be in mp3 format or the player will not play them. Since Apple uses mp4 format it will not recognize them. I have tried both wma (Windows Media Audio) and mp4 files and the file manager on the Coby does not see the file.
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Yes - you take out the SD card - and put into your MAC - goes right into iMovie - or iPhoto - whatever you want - but I don't think the cord works with MAC - b/c Mac has moved from Firewire to SD card...so I guess depends on your MAC -
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I have the same problem with a different model of the SanDisk player. I was never able to solve it. However I found a workaround: If I take it to my wife's computer it works fine there and I can download the complete playlists. I don't know what this means but it has something to do with my old clunker of a computer I guess. My wife's is much newer and has more RAM, so that may be a factor.
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If you have VLC player on your iMac it won't matter. I use my MacBook Pro and just slide the SD card in and voila.
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I have a Mac Mini and I'm able to import the videos without problem. Besides, the software will reside in the SD card, not your Mac
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Well, I'm 5 months now with two SansaClip players. Dragging mp3 files into both of them from two different Macs, two versions of the operating system: 10.3 and 10.4. It's has worked for me, no problems. One player was left out in hard rain for two nights and I couldn't believe, it still works. I've loaded and unloaded songs on these players numerous times. Never did anything special, just drag-n-drop mp3s into the music folder. Sorry it hasn't worked so easily for others.
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The player will play music from a CD or a Sims Card and a USP Flash Drive. It will give you the music but not the Lyrics . MP3+G or CD+G in the player will give you the Lyrics on the screen. I think that I have had mine over a year not and I just Love it. One on the main things that I like is the Song List. You can fill your flash and after it loads it you can press Create Song List and it will create one and put it on your flash drive so you can plug it into your computer and print it. Also it will assign it's own number for each song. You can look through your list and when you see the one you want then just key the assigned number and it will take you right to it. But remember that you have to have what ever input MPG+3 format for it to show the video data. And when you are just play music it will not show the song list. I seen where Travis put that in his answer and he is correct. Hope this has help you.
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I haven't been able to get it to work with OS X El Capitan 10.11.2. It or the micro sd card doesn't show up on the desk top and I've set it up, , formatted the micro sd card, calibrated it, scanned and it doesn't seem to work worth a diddley. I not to happy about wasting $52 as it stands. Anybody else with a Mac have this problem?