My mp3 player and associated program.

[ceed]

Hi,

In XP every time I plugged in my mp3 player the program I use to load it
came up automatically, or at least I got a question about which program to
use.

After I upgraded to Vista nothing happens when I connect the player except
for it showing up under "Computer" as a drive. How do I get Vista to open
the program like it did in XP?

 

[phypps]

I don't think you can

I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit with a Zen V plus.
Vista recognises it for what it is and even has an icon that looks like the
player.
So while it shows as the correct device, vista treats it as a removable
drive.
You should be able to access all the folders on your player (music, video,
playlists, etc).
Just copy an album folder from "Music" and paste into the music directory on
the player.
When you disconnect the player from the USB it should update itself
internally as usual.
You shouldn't need specialist software as the player will use the "tags" to
organise the music into albums, artist, genre etc.
(in fact it will use these to decide where the music belongs in its library
regardless of the album folder name)
I am pretty sure that vista doesn't like most proprietary music player
programs, but works quite happily without.
Most really aren't necessary.

Phypps

 

[ceed]

I don't think you can

I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit with a Zen V plus.
Vista recognises it for what it is and even has an icon that looks
like the player.
So while it shows as the correct device, vista treats it as a
removable drive.
You should be able to access all the folders on your player (music,
video, playlists, etc).
Just copy an album folder from "Music" and paste into the music
directory on the player.
When you disconnect the player from the USB it should update itself
internally as usual.
You shouldn't need specialist software as the player will use the
"tags" to organise the music into albums, artist, genre etc.
(in fact it will use these to decide where the music belongs in its
library regardless of the album folder name)
I am pretty sure that vista doesn't like most proprietary music player
programs, but works quite happily without.
Most really aren't necessary.

Phypps

Thanks for the information. So in this regard Vista is different than XP.
I have a Sansa player which I use with Real Rhapsody. In XP Rhapsody came
up when I connected the player. In Vista it doesn't.