Need help with my new mp3 player

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

I decided to buy a cheapie mp3 player for Mr. LG and I can't figure out how to work it. It's from Fujilabs, and on the surface, it's pretty neat; 1 GB mp3 player, FM tuner, video, audio, jpegs, gifs. Trouble is, the instructions are impossible to understand (badly translated Chinese) and I can't figure out how to get songs onto it. Well, actually - the songs I have are m4p files and I guess there's no converter included with the Fujilabs software (or if there is I can't find it). So I downloaded a free converter - but of course in the fine print it says you can only convert 3 songs for free, then it's $29.95 to buy the software for unlimited use. I tried converting 2 songs, which worked and I put them on the mp3 player, but it only plays the 1st ten seconds of each song!

Can anyone help? If you need more info, the product info is here.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Try this one for converting formats:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

EDIT: hmm, this one appears to be a "trial" version as well so this might or might not help...

sorry

 

[ntalwar]

Maybe it's the m4p DRM(e.g. iTunes) that prevents playing the whole song. Try to first burn the songs to CD, then rip the songs to mp3.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Hmm. Okay so I'm new with this sort of geekspeak - I can burn the songs to a CD, but how do I rip them to mp3? Sorry I don't know what that means! Thanks for the suggestion...I'll try it as soon as I can figure out what it means!


I'm so old.

 

[ntalwar]

^If you're on a PC, Windows Media Player has a "Rip" command. Or there are tons of free rippers - e.g. "Free CD Ripper".

 

[Liesje]

CDex is the freeware ripping program I use (and have used for years).

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

^If you're on a PC, Windows Media Player has a "Rip" command. Or there are tons of free rippers - e.g. "Free CD Ripper".

Thanks ntalwar! I (finally) figured out how to use the "Rip" command on WMP. And I think somehow the mp3 player was on an 'intro' setting, which is why it only played the 1st 10 seconds of each song. Somehow I took that off and now it's playing an entire song. I'm on my way to figuring it out!