My MP3 keeps saying Directory Not Found. When I tried to burn my cds to it, and my limwire music.?

Most of the cds burned but a lot of them said directory not found. When I tried to play with it, it said that all my songs were deleted and when I hooked it up to my computer the computer recognizes it but when I try to copy the mp3 files and place them in the correct folder it says directory not found again. Now it says no files when I go into the music section of my mp3. The mp3 has no brandname on it and it says firewire. version blah, blah, blah. Can anybody whose computer savy help me? How do I get it to find the directory?

My MP3 keeps saying Directory Not Found. When I tried to burn my cds to it, and my limwire music.?
There are several options for free, legal music downloads.





The first is Podcasts. My favorite is Crap from the Past at crapfromthepast.com. The host Ron "Boogymoster" Gerber, describes it as a graduate level course in pop music, and he's not far off. You'll hear a lot of music that hasn't been on the air for a long time. The program is available as a podcast, with three half hour segments coming out a week.





Another great source of Public Domain and Creative Commons music is archive.org. For example, It's amazing how much old school Jazz has fallen into the Public Domain. A lot of techno and pop artists use a Creative Commons license that makes non-commercial distribution legal.





Jamendo.com is a record label that makes all their music available for download for free. The idea is to give away MP3s to encourage people to buy the actual CDs.





You can also look into various music Podcasts. For example, there are some really good Celtic music podcasts, Celtic Music News being my favorite. celticmusicnews.com





The BBC and NPR have a variety of music programs, most of which are free downloads or can be listened to as streaming media.





Finally, there's etree.org. A LOT of artists give permission to allow the recording and distribution of their live performances. etree.org only offers "lossless" recordings, so you'll need to convert them into another format to use them on your portable media player. The good news is since these are lossless files to start with, you won't have the data degradation and conversion artifacts typical of say, converting a WMA to an MP3. It's more like ripping an CD.





All told, there's a LOT out there free of charge. The Kuro5hin article I link to below has even more detail.


http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/0...





http://www.celticmusicnews.com/


http://archive.org


http://crapfromthepast.com


http://www.jamendo.com/en/


http://www.etree.org/


http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/0...
Reply:Sounds like the mp3 player came equipped with a folder where files are supposed to be stored. That folder got deleted, and now it has nowhere to put things. You would need to know what that folder was called and recreate it.





The cards that go in digital cameras are like this: there's a special folder where the pictures are stored, and if that folder gets deleted, the camera can't use the card. Most cameras have a setup mode that lets people create the folder (sometimes called formatting the card).





Your player didn't come with any directions?