RCA Lyra 1021 Portable Device

[roger lucas]

I recently purchased the RCA Lyra 1021. The instructions
tell me if I am using Windows 2000 that the OS will detect
and install the driver for the device. The driver
is "Thompson RD1021_71 player USB device". When I connect
the player to the USB cable, Windows detects new hardware
and adds 2 disk drives to my computer. One is for the
external memory capability of the player and the other is
for the 64MB of internal memory in the player. So it acts
like an external memory disk. I should just be able to
drag and drop into the new drive but I get an error that
says, "cannot find specified file. make sure you specify
correct path and filename." I tried RCA tech support but
they said the unit is working fine and that it is a OS
problem. Can anyone help me figure this one out? I have
tried disabling the external memory disk. I have deleted
the drivers and reloaded. All to no avail.
Please help!
Roger Lucas

 

[Cyberbear]

I recently purchased the RCA Lyra 1021. The instructions
tell me if I am using Windows 2000 that the OS will detect
and install the driver for the device. The driver
is "Thompson RD1021_71 player USB device". When I connect
the player to the USB cable, Windows detects new hardware
and adds 2 disk drives to my computer. One is for the
external memory capability of the player and the other is
for the 64MB of internal memory in the player. So it acts
like an external memory disk. I should just be able to
drag and drop into the new drive but I get an error that
says, "cannot find specified file. make sure you specify
correct path and filename." I tried RCA tech support but
they said the unit is working fine and that it is a OS
problem. Can anyone help me figure this one out? I have
tried disabling the external memory disk. I have deleted
the drivers and reloaded. All to no avail.
Please help!
Roger Lucas

I use my Lyra with WinXP. I always use the MusicMatch software with the RCA
plug-in for the Lyra to manage my music files and transfer them to the Lyra,
even though XP recognizes the device as another drive. I never tried
dragging and dropping. I can delete all of the files from the Lyra from an
explorer folder however.

I will try drag and drop tonight when I am at my home PC and if I find any
more useful information I will post it in this thread.

Good Luck!

 

[Cyberbear]

I use my Lyra with WinXP. I always use the MusicMatch software with the RCA
plug-in for the Lyra to manage my music files and transfer them to the Lyra,
even though XP recognizes the device as another drive. I never tried
dragging and dropping. I can delete all of the files from the Lyra from an
explorer folder however.

I will try drag and drop tonight when I am at my home PC and if I find any
more useful information I will post it in this thread.

Good Luck!

Roger,
I was able to copy files directly into the Lyra folder in
Explorer. But when I did it that way the Lyra did recognize the
files properly so it did not want to play them. I went back to
using MusicMatch witht he RCA Lyra plug-in, and it works fine
that way.

I suggest that you use the software that came on the CD with the
Lyra. Or, you can go to the RCA website and get the software
there.

HTH