Card Reader Writers for MP3 based callers??

clayman90

clayman90

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Can I buy a card reader/writer and put sounds on SD cards and then put different sounds on my MP3 player.

My idea is to have a couple different sets of sounds on cards and then if I want to change sounds on my MP3 I could delete the current sound list on the player and load a completely different set of sounds on it without having to make a list up each time.

Does this make sense?
Can I do the same thing with my laptop in the field without the card reader/writer, just a USB cable?

Am I making this to hard?

My PC skills are improving, albiet very slowly, and I think this would let me have a couple different "banks of sounds" in my MP3.
How does the folders files work in the MP3 player, and could I do the same things in the folders without the cards?

Just thinking out loud I guess???

Thanks
Clayman /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
Western Rivers supports MMC in the Predation unit. I have a 512mb MMC card in that unit. The unit recognizes the MMC card as an additional drive, and when I plug in the unit to the PC, the PC sees additional 2 drives (on the Predation). All I do is copy files fro my pc to the 2 drives using windows, and wa la, the files are on the Predation.

Does your unit support MMC or SD?

Doug
 
OK, you lost me. LOL

I am going to use a MP3 player to play sounds through a Minaska Speaker/Amp combo. With a Nady 351 wireless system.

All I am looking for is this: Can I load sounds on a SD card then use a card reader/writer to change sounds on my MP3 player?

Maybe I am overthinking this?
 
If your MP3 player will accept the SD cards as plug ins, you wont need the card reader.

Just put the card in your MP 3 player, plug it into your computer with a USB cable and download the sounds you want to the card, which will show up as a separate drive. Depending on the program you use, you can probably just drag and drop them to the card. Then you can change cards all you want.

AL
THO Game Calls
 
My MP3 does not accept SD cards .
My home PC does not have a card port.
My laptop does have a cardport.

What do I need to do to make my MP3 work with SD cards, besides buy another one?
 
If your MP3 does not have a slot for the cards, I don't know how you will use the cards. Maybe someone can help you but I have no idea.

AL
 
Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to buy cards, possibly with sounds from Minaska and be able to download them to my MP3 player with the reader/writer through my PC or laptop.

My goal was to only have a dozen or so sounds on my MP3 at a time.

I'll talk to Steve @ Minaksa and see if its possible.

Again Thanks.
Clayman
 
you can load sound on your laptop and then put them on your mp3 player and the sound will play. i dont understand why you want to put them on a sd card if you dont have a slot in your mp3 player.the size of the file for the bandit is about 2.5 megs so that is why it take a 256 meg card to have 100 sound for the bandit . if you have a slot in you mp3 player you will need a 256 meg card to do 100 sounds . but i dont know if that will help you you will have to set it up to repeat or it will go to the next track and play another sound .
 
You probably don't need cards or a reader for calling.

I've got three different MP3 players and they all support playlists that make it easy to organize small groups of songs or sounds. Scrolling thru a long list is a PITA I agree. They either synch in I-Tunes or WMP10 so loading is easy. You can fit 100 45-second loops in less than 256MB so a Gig is overkill.

That all means that most cheap 1G players like a Sansa, Creative or Nano will hold hundreds of loops, organize easily, and you don't need to do any loading or card switching in the field. Just push a couple of buttons. Minaska's bandit uses ten banks of ten sounds each on a CF card. Sound changes within a bank are one touch. It's a killing machine.

Repeating a single loop is a standard feature on most players.
 
You'd probably want another MP3 player to be able to do what describe, clayman.

My first MP3 device came standard with 128MB of internal memory, and had no indexing or playlists feature. While I could hold all of my wildlife library as MP3s in that much space with room left over, I found it useful to not also carry music the remaining memory, and not to have to scrolll through all the titles to get back to the beginning of my wildlife files. So I put my music on another 128MB removeable SMC card. I also could field record with that device and could choose to record to the external card.

Others might not want more than a few wildlife calling sounds on their player at any given time, for a specific purpose. As an example, if they want to play a sequence of sounds, over an hour's time, with long silent pauses, they might want just five to tens tracks and set the player to loop after an hour. An MP3 player with interchangeable cards might still be just the ticket, in this case.

But if you're simply thinking of saving money by going this route, beware that many of the older MP3 players that you might pick up for cheap at auction over on O-Boy will use obsolete memory cards--which may be hard to find, and no bargain themselves, these days. (Alas the world has mostly moved on from the 128MB SMC cards my old Ripflash Plus takes, and they've become increasingly difficult to find for cheap. Entire MP3 devices with twice as much memory are cheaper!)

While scrolling through a long laundry list of sounds is indeed a PITA, the Playlists feature of my 1G iPod Nano makes it easy to carry all my wildlife sounds with me, with a high degree of organization. I really like not having to carry expensive memory cards, no more worries about dropping or bending them out in the field. I also have a ton of music on the iPod, but putting songs on it too no longer interferes with my predator calling.

LionHo
 
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