Sony NW-E005F working in Linux - HOWTO

Hi Patrick,
I've added a section mentioning that. Keep up the great work.

Cheers,
Mark

Hi Andrew,
I'm running ubuntu edgy too and haven't seen any issues unmounting it - what error are you getting? Have you checked that you don't have a terminal open in one of the directories?

Cheers,
Mark

Hi Andrew,

Just double checked on my machine and everything seems ok. Couple of things to check - do you have a terminal open with the directory set as /media/usbdisk?

Have you tried the following: "lsof | grep /media/usbdisk" This will show all the open files that refer to /media/usbdisk.

Cheers,
Mark

Hi Mark

All is ok now. My issue was with Udev. For some time Udev has been mounting volumes twice for attached hard-drives & inserted usb devices. Re-installing it solved the issue :)

Many thanks

Hi Nathan,

I haven't tried my NW-E005F on a BSD machine. From the posting you made the only major difference I could see was that it was trying to use the ATAPI driver instead of the SCSI driver.

Don't know if it's any help but here is the output from my ubuntu machine when I plug it in:

[17304787.984000] usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[17304788.116000] usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17304788.596000] usbcore: registered new driver libusual
[17304788.640000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17304788.644000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[17304788.644000] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17304788.644000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[17304788.644000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[17304788.644000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[17304788.644000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17304793.648000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17304793.648000] Vendor: SONY Model: NWWM MEM AAD2 Rev: 1.00
[17304793.648000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[17304793.740000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[17304793.772000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17304794.796000] ready
[17304794.796000] SCSI device sda: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[17304794.796000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17304794.796000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[17304794.796000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17304794.796000] SCSI device sda: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[17304794.800000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17304794.800000] sda: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[17304794.800000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17304794.800000] sda: sda1
[17304795.444000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

Good luck and let me know if you succeed.
Cheers,
Mark

Hi,

on Debian the meta package "sun-java5-jre" was enough to install. I guess most people can live without the 15MB demos from the "..-jdk" package. Don't know if it's the same on Ubuntu but I hope so.

Additionally I installed "ffmpeg" which enables live conversion of mp3, wav files while uploading. :)

Inspired by your HowTo I wrote a German one.

ciao

Hi Age,

Installing the jre instead of the jdk is probably a good idea - I'll test it out and then update the tutorial. I'll also check out the ffmpeg one. I think I may already have it installed so didn't notice the need for it.


Tere,
Did you make sure that you were in the correct folder - I think I recall having problems if I wasn't in the correct folder. At the command line go to the folder where you have installed the file manager and then use the command exactly as shown above.

Hope that helps,
Mark

Thanks for the help , NW-E305 working beautifully now ( SuSE 10.1 AMD 64 , JRE 1.6 )

Hi all,

As for the "File Error" that seems to occur on the player, do not play the mp3 using the search tool on the player since it is not supported for now.

Browse the titles or the albums, and it should work. Also, the compatibility seems not to work using FFMPEG under Ubunty Edgy. I need to work on this...

As for the "GhostBuster" song, this is garbage of when I created the OMGAUDIO.zip archive... It looks like the SonicStage does not completly remove some data from the index files.

Try this:

1 - Format the player using the internal option in the advance menu.
2 - Copy the NW-E00xMp3FileManager.jar on the player
3 - Copy the OMGAUDIO.zip content on the player to have a OMGAUDIO Folder
4 - unmont the player before unplugin it to be sure that the buffers are all transfered on the player when copying files...
5 - Validate that the players show "No Titles" or something like that...
6 - Plug the player and use NW-E00xMp3FileManager to add one MP3 without converting with FFMPEG...
7 - Unmount and then unplug...
8 - Validate that the player sees the new mp3, and is able to play it.

Let me know the results!

Uh..
I gotta reformat my Sony Walkman, because I reformated it without knowing what it was.. and I changed the format for FAT and I don't remember what was the format it was originally and also, I can't find a program ou something that formats it back to what it was..
Please HELP ME!

You mean I just have to download the OMGAudio from this site and place it on the drive?

Hi Eduardo,

Happy to help if I can but I need more information.

What exact model do you have?
What's the error message you are seeing?

On my one NW-E005F there is an option to reformat

Menu->Advanced Settings -> Initialize -> Format

This should reformat the player. Also if you use the Sonic Stage application it should create the omg audio folder.

Cheers,
Mark

Cannot get this to work under OS X. I get a:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0/12

when running the jar file from the USB stick. What did you do differently? Or is it something to do with the newer version?

Thanks

I accidently deleted my omgaudio file off my nw-e005 mp3 player and now i cant add music it says no database how do i fix it some help me please!!!

Can't ask for more. Thiis is great!

Absolutely brilliant. I was in the market looking for an MP3 player for the gym and found the Sony NWS205F. I was even considering installing windows just so I could use the device!!!! First class application and works just great, it was the deciding factory of my purchase.. Thanks again.
Works great on my Gentoo systems with Java 1.5 & 1.6.

Your welcome Jeff. Real thanks should go to Patrick Balleux who created the program.

I've added the NW-S603 to the list of supported devices.

Cheers,
Mark

I'm having the same problem as Adrian Sie mentioned on 22 February ... from what I can gather, I can't run Java 1.5 on Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther).

I haven't yet found a workaround ... any clues?

Maybe I'll have to use my husband's laptop, which runs Ubuntu ;)

Hi Hester,

I also use Ubuntu Feisty 7.04, and I think your issue is related to the graphical way you are doing things.

Try this.
Open a terminal, and navigate to your device before firing the app.
ie.
cd /media/disk (ENTER)
java -jar NW-E003_MP3_File_Manager-0.12.jar (ENTER)

Notes.
1. my device mounts as "disk" not "usbdisk"- make sure you navigate to the correct folder.

2. I made sun Java my "default" java.
sudo update-alternatives --config java

3. Doing this shortcut in the terminal doesn't work.
java -jar /media/disk/NW-E003_MP3_File_Manager-0.12.jar
gets the app running, but doesn't allow any file transfers.

I think point 3 is your issue.
I suspect your graphic way of doing this (right click etc... ) sends a similar message through the terminal.

Cheers

Neil.

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the help - I got the terminal going, and got to the disk, but then it said 'exception in 'main' thread Java'

I think I have a java problem too, but not sure how to sort that either.

Java does seem to error a bit, and I seem to have 2 versions on the computer.
I tried to make sun the default but I can't get that to work either..

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Hester

Hi Marcelo,
Firstly - send your thanks to Patrick - I only wrote the howto not the application.

Secondly - this application shouldn't need any root access. This is likely caused by the fact that when the usb drive it loaded it does not correctly assign permissions for the current user. I haven't used redhat enterprise - but if you copy files to the usb drive at all then the java app should work.

Please let me know if you have any success.
Cheers,
Mark

Great Stuff!

Would you disclose the sources?

balu

Hi,
Does your program only work for mp3? I seem to only be able to see mp3 and AAC or whatever macs code by default. I am on a mac with tiger and it works great but for this. Will you be adding this ability?
Thanks
A

@maax

DId you see the comment from Patrick? http://www.lynchconsulting.com.au/blog/index.cfm/2...

This should get it going again.

Cheers,
Mark

Hey, this is fantastic. Thanks very much. I'm non-technical, but managed to follow your instructions to get the Sony MP3 player working with the iMac OS X 10.4.9. The only difference to your list was that it was easier as I didn't need to use the terminal for installing the files to the player, but simply drag and dropped them.I've had the player for a year and was despairing of ever getting it to work. Hurrah! SHaron.

Hi
I am using ubuntu 7.4 feisty, how do i install this?
i keep getting something telling me the location listed in this guide is non existant.

can anyone just tell me where the usb drives in 7.4 are
thanks . i have a nw-703s

Hmm
thanks for replying , I am new to this ubuntu thing.
but i Love it , i have Beryl up and running now because i just figured out what that dude meant about sign on as xgl session. I spent 2 days getting to this point i am realy getting to know this system.

but
I can not do this sort of thing yet. this is my first time reaching out on a forum , we would not have these options and this freedom if people didnt ask questions. its amazing

anyway how do i do this on feisty
i dont know what file manager is. but my machine sees my sony mp3 player and in the file browser(think thats what you meant but it might have different names on diff os)

and if i go to properties and then to volume it tells me my mount point is:-
/media/disk.

i need step by step guides , feel silly but i gotta ask if i want my tunes, can you help more.
Ross

hi
I cant even get the java check to work.
is there something extra i should type?

heres what happens

cp NW-E003_MP3_File_Manager-0.10.jar /media/usbdisk/
command not found
cp NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.13.jar /media/disk/
same thing happens with these changes.
1>i got a newer version of this, nm-00x?
2 i changed the file to disk minus the usb.

and when i do the java check:

mpos:~$ $ java -version
bash: $: command not found

so i dont know what i am doing wrong sure its more than one thing.

i know some of the basics for ubuntu, but this thing is not goign smooth

Hey, I was just saying thanks for the awesome manager, saved me a trip back to the store !

mark,
plz, i need ur help. i run xp service pack to and i have followed all the instructions you gave. but the player still says "no database" even after i copy files from the software. please advise. it has been saying "no database even before i put in the audio files. What am i doing wrong.
thanks.

Nemek

sorry i already solved my problem, it was that i just double clicked the application and the save button never appears, when executing with command it run well =) its amazing!!!!!! the program

I tried to use v.0.13 on Debian Etch (and Java 1.5.0_10), but it doesn't work (it doesn't write the file "playersize.txt" and I can't upload the files on the player). Then I downloaded v.0.12, it works ok.

Just a question: how to better encode mp3 files (that is: what is the better filename format) to better use the player?
Thanks a lot! Little Great software!

M.

Hi guys,

first of all, thx for making this and helping us.

now here's my problem:

I downloaded the stuff you said, but when i want to copy them to my NW-003 it says:

" can not copy OMGAUDIO. can not find file. check if the path and the filename are correct "

I have no idea what to do, your method has worked before, that time I only had to copy the OMGAUDIO and then everything was fine.

I hope that one of you can help me.

Hello everybody, thanks for the work you have done, I hope I will also be
free from Sonic Stage soon.

My one is a NW-E107, and I am using linux Ubuntu. I can read all files
inside my walkman and I could send a copy for you if you are willing to
develop a similar solution for this walkman.

I installed the software E00x, but after I realized that this is not the
right version for my case.

Please design a solution for me, I will be eternally thankful.

thanks
Yales

ver 0.13 and my NW S603:
Cannot delete files from player,
Cannot upload files from player
Does not write anything on the playertext file
will try using v 0.12

Further to my comments of 5/15/07, I'm now only a little out-of-date and have upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) so I can finally run v0.12 of the MP3 file manager.

So far so good! Thanks to Patrick for this great interface.

Hi Mark,

Is there any way in which I can use my Sony NW-E75 with Ubuntu-Fiesty to listen to mp3s.

Running into a problem running this on OS X (10.4.10)

I have followed every step as instructed, but when I run NW-E00x, it gets stuck on "Scanning" and none of the buttons are available. If I switch over to "Podcasts" and back to "Local" I then get the "Add all titles from all subdirectories," but if I use that to add a file, the "Write titles to the player" function never becomes available.

Am I missing something?

Chris,

Got the same exact situation as you. I'm running on Mac OS X 10.4.10. Try this:

1. Download the NW-E00X MP3 File Manager version v0.10 instead of the version v0.13 from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group...

2. Format your player using the internal Advanced Menu.
3. Just Drag and Drop the OMGAUDIO folder and the NW-E003_MP3_File_Manager-0.10.jar onto your player
4. Open the <NO NAME> drive, just double click on the JAR file... and your done!

You'll see the "Write titles to player" available

ENJOY!

I'll try to test if the v0.12 works for OS X 10.4.10

Hi, great posting I must say. The restriction set by Sony gave me great headache.

However one thing got me curious. It seems that the song title appears as both the artist's name and the song title. Is there anyway this can be change?

Cheers.

Hi,

I'm trying to get File Manager v0.13 to work and have had some moderate success thanks to this site. I have Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) and jre 6. I can get songs on and off of my NW-E005F, but the playback is at an incorrect bitrate. In the File Manager I have no bitrate conversion options and I also notice that after running the v0.13 jar, no playersize.txt is created (don't know if that's even a problem). I understand from other forums that the transferred bitrate has something to do with ffmpeg. Do I need to have ffmpeg.exe on the root of the NW-E005F device or am I only required to have ffmpeg installed on my system?

I also understand that the version that I get with Ubuntu won't have the required mp3 functionality. I've tried compiling/installing non-Ubuntu ffmpegs a few different ways, and being a hopeless newbie, probably messed-up somewhere (now I have two ffmpeg directories, none of which recognize ffmpeg as being installed). So I guess what I'd like to know is: is ffmpeg required to get correct playback? If so, is there any easy to install full-up mp3 version that'll work with Ubuntu and where do I put it (system or NW-E005F player)? Any help is greatly appreciated!

Is there a Widnows XP fix?

Or can I do the Linux fix from my Windows XP computer?

Don't have Linux but do have the sony NW-E003 with its awkward file loading procedure.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Thank you very much. Please add NW-E015F into your support list :-)

I am able to get this working (sort of) on my NW-E016 2GB (purchased in Japan)
But not good enough to use. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

java version "1.5.0_13"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-b05, mixed mode, sharing)


NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.10
Works fine, except the audio is garbled beyond listenability

NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.12
Player displays "File Error" or audio is garbled beyond listenability

NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.13
Able to open program and add files, but unable to transfer to player.(transfer Button is greyed out)

Also,
I am unable to unmount drive.lsof | grep /media/usbdisk gives no open files, so I have to just pull it out (possibly unsafe).

I delete all the files from the drive and then transfer the OMGAUDIO and Jar file over and then sudo java -jar NW-E00X_MP3_File_Manager-0.1X.jar which opens the program. I then close the program, change the drive size to 2GB in playersize.txt and run the program again, transfer the files, attempt to unmount the drive, fail, then pull the drive out. Try to listen and (most of the time) the audio is extremely garbled the rest of the time the player shows "file error" and will not play.

I am doing something wrong? like missing a step? or is this a problem with Ubuntu or My version of Java? Any ideas?

PS, I really like the player, but Sonic Stage is just a piece of crap. I was running spybot search and destroy's tea timer in WinXP (luckily) when I tried to install Sonic Stage. It tried to register about a hundred .DLLs and was making all kinds of uneccessary changes to the registry. Fortunately, it still works after denying all of the registry changes, I would much rather have a player that I can just drag and drop files to instead of requiring that they be converted using a mandatory program. Hopefully I can get this working so I dont have to rely on Sony's crapware.

I also confirmed that the .jar works under WinXp, but the same thing happens with the audio as per my previous post.

I can confirm that this app works well with the Sony NW-013F. Remember the trick is to copy the NW-* Jar file into the root directory of your USB walkman

thank you sooooo much! sonic stage just sucks!

its work properly!
thaks a lot!

good work

Thanks for the software. But when i use this app for loading music, the application hangs. I am forced to kill the application. Would someone help me out.

My System Config:
Ubuntu: Feisty Fawn
sundar@sundar-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux sundar-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 12 05:41:34 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

An extract from the dmesg.
=========================================

[33572.881416] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[33573.019380] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[33573.093294] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[33573.102850] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[33573.102913] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[33573.102960] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[33573.102962] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[33573.103033] usb-storage: device found at 3
[33573.103035] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[33578.100005] usb-storage: device scan complete
[33578.100377] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY NWWM MEM AAD2 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[33578.101638] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[33578.101678] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[33580.197531] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33580.198279] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33580.198283] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33580.198285] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33580.200152] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33580.200902] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33580.200905] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33580.200907] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33580.201075] sdb: sdb1
[33686.993379] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33687.001258] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33687.001263] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33687.001265] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33687.001269] sdb: sdb1
[33696.041872] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33696.047769] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33696.047773] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33696.047775] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33696.047933] sdb: sdb1
[33722.398257] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33722.399523] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33722.399527] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33722.399529] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33722.399680] sdb: sdb1
[33738.559569] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[33738.575646] sdb: Write Protect is off
[33738.575651] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[33738.575653] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[33738.575807] sdb: sdb1
[33808.148099] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, address 3
[35820.629406] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[35820.763747] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[35820.763987] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[35820.764091] usb-storage: device found at 4
[35820.764093] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[35825.762786] usb-storage: device scan complete
[35825.763159] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY NWWM MEM AAD2 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[35825.764428] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[35825.764466] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[35827.846076] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[35827.846698] sdb: Write Protect is off
[35827.846701] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[35827.846705] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[35827.848447] SCSI device sdb: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[35827.849071] sdb: Write Protect is off
[35827.849074] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[35827.849076] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[35827.849079] sdb: sdb1
[41823.082247] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, address 4
[41862.367713] usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[41862.501505] usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[41862.501738] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[41862.501842] usb-storage: device found at 5
[41862.501844] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[41867.497417] usb-storage: device scan complete
[41867.497919] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SONY NWWM MEM AAD2 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[41867.499064] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[41867.499105] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[41869.638424] SCSI device sdc: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[41869.639046] sdc: Write Protect is off
[41869.639049] sdc: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[41869.639052] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[41869.640795] SCSI device sdc: 995201 2048-byte hdwr sectors (2038 MB)
[41869.641684] sdc: Write Protect is off
[41869.641687] sdc: Mode Sense: 00 6a 00 00
[41869.641689] sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
[41869.641692] sdc: sdc1
[41879.818710] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818724] FAT: Directory bread(block 123) failed
[41879.818731] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818735] FAT: Directory bread(block 124) failed
[41879.818740] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818743] FAT: Directory bread(block 125) failed
[41879.818749] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818753] FAT: Directory bread(block 126) failed
[41879.818757] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818760] FAT: Directory bread(block 127) failed
[41879.818767] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818770] FAT: Directory bread(block 128) failed
[41879.818774] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818777] FAT: Directory bread(block 129) failed
[41879.818783] scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[41879.818787] FAT: Directory bread(block 130) failed
[42000.261953] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, address 5
[42000.265794] scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[42000.265876] scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[42000.265940] scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[42000.266003] scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[42000.266066] sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
[42000.266067] sdc : status=0, message=00, host=1, driver=00
[42000.266070] sdc : sense not available.
[42000.266222] scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

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Great application ! thanks to the developer for creating it and to your informative articile.

Very, very nice howto and software!
In fact its awsome! :-))

Work fine on Ubuntu 8.04 (i386) and NW-E005F

Thank you a lot!

//M

can u please add NW-E016f 4gb model to the supported models list

the status message is not working though

the track number of the folder or the remaining times are shown as -- / --