Gosh I had a heck of a time transfering files from my old MP3 player, an iRiver iFP-790, to my PC running Windows XP SP3. First problem: I had a .zip download that I had saved on my machine from when I bought the device 5 years ago, it was for Music Manager 3.16. I ran the installer but some error messages appeared (several of them, clicked OK on each one); the Manager got installed nonetheless but when I plugged in my iFP-790, it wasn’t recognized.
So then I tried to locate a newer version of Music Manager. Most google hits pointed to sites that google warned against visiting due to infested with malware; other hits of repository sites had the link to the Manager removed due to target site being infected; the iRiver.com website did not provide any downloads for the ifp-790 (actually it did but not under that category — read on!).
Eventually I noticed via some links that the iFP-790 probably was same as N10 and T10 models. So I returned to the iRiver.com/support site and searched for the models=N10. One came up for the Music Manager, but on the corresponding page, there was nothing to download! I cleared the N10 entry and just entered the words “music manager” in right-most box, and left all other entries to default. This showed a few hits, one of them being for Music Manager 3..21, hurray!
Installation of v3.21 showed same error messages popping up. I started the manager to see if anything would work. It ran ok but when I connected the MP3 player, I got the “new hardware found” pop-ups in the system tray and the “new hardware found” wizard window show up. I agreed to let Windows find the drivers and lo and behold, after a few seconds, the Music Manager showed “connected” and the folders/files showed up, hurray! I thought the Wizard had nothing to do with it because it eventually showed that installation of the drivers failed. So I exited the wizard.
At some point the iFP got disconnected. When I reconnected it, the same “new hardware found” but this time, I just cancelled the Wizard directly. Now the Music Manager would not connect! So for some reason, the Wizard was able to install something, enough for the Manager to connect, but not enough for the Wizard to indicate full success.
Transfering the files over to PC, then conversion to MP3 format, was straightforward.
November 16, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this. It is late 2011 and you just saved me a lot of time and hassle. I ran the installer on win7 in xp-sp2 compatibility mode, told windows to update device driver under devices and printers and it worked. Thank you very very much. I can now use the recorder for my needs.