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Bronze Member Username: Freeringtones
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 09:46 pm: |
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This thread will attempt to address some of the various RCA Lyra mp3 players. |
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Bronze Member Username: Freeringtones
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 09:54 pm: |
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The RCA LYRA mp3 Jukebox underwent a major makeover for 2003, sporting a new, compact design and metallic silver finish, and a storage capacity boost, now holding up to 10,000 songs. The new 40GB RCA LYRA mp3 Jukebox, model RD2840, includes a USB 2.0 connection for high speed transfers, on standard USB connections, and up to 15 hours of battery playback. |
Bronze Member Username: Freeringtones
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 10:11 pm: |
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Put a Virtual VCR and Hours of Entertainment in Your Pocket The palm sized 20GB Lyra Audio/Video Jukebox is a world full of entertainment at one's fingertips enabling movie and music buffs to easily transport hours worth of their favorite content in their coat pocket. |
Bronze Member Username: Freeringtones
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| Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 10:39 pm: |
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Lots of features. Works as advertised. Excellent menu lets you find your song in the 1.5 GB of storage by Artist, Album, Song title, Genre, and even Year. Overall great unit. |
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| Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 05:09 pm: |
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I hope this post about my lyra 2010 is okay....
1. I am having trouble with fm presets since I upgraded to 1.51. Are these set differently now with the new upgrade?
2. Is there a way to make the player start with the last song played? I've heard the same song 14 million times. EEEKKKK!!!!!
3. Is there a place to access instructions on how to use the new capabilities of 1.51 or do we just guess?
Thanks to anyone listening. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 12:09 pm: |
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hello i have a lyra mp3 player but i cannot obtain the software to add music on the list,where could i find the software again so i a may be able to add music for my daughter.
please help |
I hate RCA Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 12:39 pm: |
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try real or music match (freeware) |
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| Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 02:40 pm: |
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I bought a rca 1028A Mp3 player and lost the CDrom, therefor not being able to even download anything. I need to obtain the CD to download the prodcut information so that I can download music. I have attempted numerous times to contact RCA support services and have been told that I have to buy a new MP3 player to obtain that software (and I don't want to do that). Please help!!! How would I go about getting that software without buying a new player? |
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| Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 01:17 pm: |
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i have the RCA lyra mp3 and i downlaoded the jukebox...but i have limewire with all my good songs, how do i download those onto my mp3? |
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stop telling me my username is invalid Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 06:31 am: |
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bought an ipod about two weeks ago. after extreme dissatisfaction i returned it and bought 5 gig lyra. beautiful. almost everything i could want in an mp3 player. |
annyoed87 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Friday, August 26, 2005 - 02:12 pm: |
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I have had a RCA lyra since Christmas and already the songs are skipping and the head phone have shorted out. Do you have any ways to stop the songs from skipping , its driving me insane. And its not the CDs because i clean them before i download them. |
Tigerlilie Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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I just received an mp3 player a few weeks ago. I'm having problems downloading music from CDs. I've had only a few successful transfers. Also, I find it difficult to change from the radio setting to my music.
Can anyone help? |
Tigerlilie Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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I just received an mp3 player a few weeks ago. I'm having problems downloading music from CDs. I've had only a few successful transfers. Also, I find it difficult to change from the radio setting to my music.
Can anyone help? |
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| Posted on Monday, November 07, 2005 - 10:39 pm: |
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I have had my 2010 awhile ago and am having serious problems. It worked fine until recently when i decided to change my songs...they saved under artist and now it wont let me scroll through anything, it just goes tot he first song of the first artist, an dbeside every song i can see is an empty music note. it wont play any songs and when i delete them from my memory and upload new songs, (i can see i did this on two different computers) the old songs will only appear and not play
Any suggestions? |
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| Posted on Monday, November 07, 2005 - 10:41 pm: |
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I have had my 2010 awhile and am having serious problems. It worked fine until recently when i decided to change my songs...they saved under artist and now it wont let me scroll through anything, it just goes tot he first song of the first artist, an dbeside every song i can see is an empty music note. it wont play any songs and when i delete them from my memory and upload new songs, (i can see i did this on two different computers) the old songs will only appear and not play
Any suggestions? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 03:54 am: |
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I have a RD 1028 and i cant get my computer to download my songs to my player....what do i do? |
Me and my Mac Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 05:44 am: |
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Will the RCA Lyra Mp3 work with a Mac? Seems to require Windows! Is there a downloadable fix/driver/anything that will allow my Mac to recognize the Mp3 player? |
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| Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 08:54 pm: |
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i have an lyra 1028 and i acidently downloaded the wrong firmware, after so the computer wont reconize it and it wot turn on. before it shut off when i downloaded the firmware it said "usb konnected" on the screen, and a bar wen't across it. and shut off. what do i do to get my comy to reconize it to put new firmware on it? or better yet is there a recovery built in to it? plz help.. tnx in advance......Email plz |
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| Posted on Thursday, December 01, 2005 - 08:08 pm: |
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I bought a RCA lyra RD2010 and I've downloaded the songs but it won't play!!!!I go to the music...nothing I'm very dissapointed, SOMEONE HEEEELLLLLPPPPP! |
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| Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 06:59 pm: |
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Hello, my Lyra 2765 ceased working recently and gives me a "File System Corrupted error" What can I do? Also would I need the install disc because I have misplaced it. Thank you. |
redsox005 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 07:25 pm: |
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my dad has a RCA player and he hasn't opened it!
he has had it for 2years! :-) |
New member Username: Danhamby
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| Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 10:55 am: |
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Can anyone tell me how to transfer a podcast from itunes to my rca lyra? |
Leon Rue Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, December 19, 2005 - 07:09 pm: |
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I have a Lyra 2312FM. Controls are a little "iffy". Hard to get to next song. Filled up memory fast so got a 512 card. Found it helps to turn up Lyra volume when using the FM car adapter.Manual does not explain the LOCK feature. |
Pendejo Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, December 25, 2005 - 10:26 pm: |
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I just got a 1028A, downloaded my songs from my pc via Windows Media Player and it works fine. Just wondering if I can add more memory to it. |
New member Username: Crazyblackboy
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| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 12:29 am: |
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my rca lyra says it can hold160 song but only holds53 whats up |
Pendejo Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 09:01 am: |
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You can't go by # of tracks because the tracks are different lengths and MB size...you go by the capacity of the MB....for example, a track that is 8 minutes long can be 10MB of memory, while a 4 minute track will be 5MB....although it also depends on the compression of the track as well. |
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| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 11:16 am: |
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Trying this again. My grand daughter rec a rca mp3 for christmas. It has a song recorded to it by Duvall. Do they come with a song recorded or did she get a store returned item?? |
Pendejo Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 12:41 pm: |
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That's a demo to make sure the unit works....I've got the same track....I tried to delete it after I loaded my other tracks and couldn't, but there must be some way to do it. |
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| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 11:18 pm: |
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I have a RCA lyra rd 1028 and all my music is on itunes how can i transfer them to my mp3? |
becca starr Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 11:24 pm: |
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i cant figure out how to delete music from my mp3 player once i have it on there. |
becca starr Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 12:49 am: |
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please help as soon as possible |
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| Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 05:18 pm: |
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i'm new to all this. i bought my daughter a lyra (not sure which version)for christmas. i want to convert the wma files to mp3 so i can download them to the player. the manual does not give instructions on how to do this. I also have music match so which is easier to use? thank you. |
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| Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 07:07 pm: |
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i purchased a lyra 2317FM player, i've downloaded the software and when i plug the usb in all the player says is usb connected and will not power on, i am completley lost with this and really need some serious help, i bought this for my son which he is trying to be patient until i find help thanks for any help i can get |
New member Username: Sheena
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 01:20 am: |
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I some how copied 2 of each song to my lyra RD1072 mp3 player. I think i know how i got 2 of them but i can't figure out how to delete the extra songs off my player. I have looked everywhere and cannot find anything about deleting songs. In the instruction book it has something about deleting programmed tracks and i tried it but it doesnt delete the songs. Someone PLEASE help me before I go crazy. |
New member Username: Davidb565
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| Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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Here is how I delete songs. after you have your player hook up to your computer,
Go to my computer and click and open the drive it is in. Mine in E so I open it and I delete the songs or album I want to and that is how I do it. |
New member Username: Davidb565
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| Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 10:50 pm: |
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Here is how I put music on my player.
If it is new out of the box.Install the software and connent to computer through the USB port.
Now I have all of my music from CDs on my computer in My Music.
I go to my music and highlight the albums I want at one at a time and right click and choose send to Drive E where your player says it is and left click and it will send it and install it on your player.
When I want new music this is what I do to delete the musioc from the player.
Go to my computer after connecting player to USB port and open the drive player is on E is mine. I CAN SEE THE ALBUMS I want to delete and I highlight them one at a time and then delete from left side list. and after that I am ready to install new music.
I got my player this Christmas and this works for me. I tried Musicmatch once to get the music installed on it the first time but after that it keep telling me I had to download the plugin for my computer everytime so I came up with my own way of putting my music on my player and deleting it off after I listen to it that I am sick of it.
This I have learned work so just try it.
By the way do not delete the demo song Duval either because I have a feeling it holds the program to run the player but if you have and it still works let me know so I can delete that piece of junk. I am a little afraid to do it.
I hope this helps all of you.
David
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| Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2005 - 09:06 pm: |
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hopefully someone can help soon. I bought my daughter the Lara MP3 player. I downloaded the music and transfered it to the MP3 player, it shows the amount of tracks there and circles through them all but never plays them.
I have tried the following:
Adding them to the Demo folder, adding them out of the demo folder, adding them in a new folder, removing the demo song, readding the demo song. I noted the demo was a read only file and even changed the new musci to MP3 and read only in some hope it would work.
I have tried everything I can think of. some help soon please would be wounderful before my daughter drives me up the wall and out of the house*L*
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| Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 11:29 pm: |
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the problem with this player is the copyright protection (DRM) for the music. I have found that most of my music won't work with this player. Even when I use the application for copying a new cd that has just retreived the license on-line from the publisher.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/drm
I'm getting frustrated with this unit and I'm going to vote that we return them to the vender, do research for a better one and buy it instead.
cheers,
B
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| Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 08:08 pm: |
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It's me ^^ again, today I was sucessful at getting every single piece of music I own to work in this pesky little devil(RCA Lyra)
I find it's just easier to work with MS windows media player, forget the rest. It's true that the drivers contained in Music match just make my sound card rock but...
1)connect the Lyra to your pc via USB link
2) open windows media player
3) select TOOLS, then select OPTIONS
4) open COPY/RIP tab and make sure the " COPY Protect MEDIA" box is unchecked.
5) now copy or rip cd music etc. to your regular music folder on your PC using windows media player.
6) Once completed goto SYNC function on your media player (called copy to portable media device in version 8 or earlier)
7)click edit playlist and select the music you just copied to your pc
8) click start sync button and your music should then be transfered to your portable
If windows media player didn't find your portable device, plug it in again and shut down and restart windows media player.
cheers,
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| Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 08:26 pm: |
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I have a rca lyra 2212 I put some new music on it and when I went to listen it said that there were no songs on it at all so I tried to plug it back in to my comp and the musicmatch portable device manager says it needs new plugins so I down loaded everything rca had for it and still get the same results. whats going on? |
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| Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |
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pleaasssssssse can anyone help????
i have just purchased a rca lyra 1076, i have a mac ibook will i ever get it to work. |
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| Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 12:25 am: |
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Joe try upgrading your version of MM Jukebox to version 9 or 10 if haven't already. I found it didn't need plug-ins and it recognised my Lyra 1076 right away. It always works better to rip your music onto your harddrive first and then copy onto your MP3 player using the application in MM juke box. |
eshafer Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 09:53 am: |
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David, you can delete the demo song Duval, and the Demo folder as well. I think possibly the volume, tone, etc settings are stored in a file named Settings in the Lyra root folder (don't have it open now, this is from memory). I add and delete songs the way you do, pretty much, just open everything up in Windows Explorer and drag and drop. Mine plays everything in alphabetical order, so you can make folders named a, b, c, and so on, and put stuff in them, and it will play the a folder first, everything in it alphabetically by filename. That makes it easier if you don't want to fool with programming the play order in the Lyra. |
New member Username: Davidb565
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| Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 11:22 pm: |
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Dear Eshafer:
Thanks for telling me that about the demo file. There are so many here who are having problems putting music on their player.
I would not even use Musicmatch player to put music on the player. I think our way works alot easier than trying to get musicmatch to work.
Be honest I never did figure out how you deleted music using MusicMatch Player so that is why I went to my computer and highlighted the E drive and I saw my music there and deleted it there and then went to my music and sent the music to E drive and it was put on my player there.
I did not even use Musicmath but one time and then I decided then the way we were doing it was the best way to go. It sure is the easiest way alright.
I like the naming of the folders A,B,C. I bet that works real easy. I will have to try that.
Thanks agains
David
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Raider312 Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 07:31 pm: |
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I've had nothing but problems transfering DRM files to th RD2765. MP3's are not a problem. I have transfered them using Musicmatch, Yahoo Music Engine, Windows Media Player 10 and Lyra Sync (when in MSC mode). However, trying to move DRM protected files does not work most of the time. Some files will work, others won't. Sometimes you get license erros on the RCA, but you can play them via Media Player. Have made sure that the files have current licenses and then transfered to the RCA and still get licensing issues.
The firmware was updated and Media Player 10 is up to date as well.
I bought this unit specifically for DRM protected media and so far it's failing badly on this front.
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 08:56 pm: |
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I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY LYRA 1076.I'M NOT SEEING IT CONNECTED TO MY MEDIA PLAYER OR MUSICMATCH.WHAT DO I DO?PLEASE HELP!SO FRUSTRATING! |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 10:23 pm: |
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ripping CD's to MP3 - Use Audiocatalyst.
copying MP3'S to Player - Use Explorer/My Computer.
WMA's work ok on the device as well.
(DRM)?!?!not sure what that is.
Media Player and Music Match usually get deleted off of my computer.(winamp!!!)
As far as the drivers being updated, I think the had a link in the directory that it gets installed to(Start->programs->rca....->Update Device)
hope this helps. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 11:23 pm: |
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Own a Lyra RD1075B. I bought a 256 SD Card but the player will not recognize it. I read somewhere about formatting the card. Does this work and how do you do it. Love the player and have never had a problem transferring songs to the flash memory. Can you help me. Thanks. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 02:34 pm: |
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I have a Lyra 2212. It keeps freezing. I can get podcasts to play just fine. I can get other mp3s to play too. However, when I try to get Audible files to play (loading them on the Lyra using Audible Manager), they freeze the unit. The only way out is to remove the clip, access the battery and remove it to reboot it. Why didn't they put a reset button on this thing?!!
If anyone has any suggestions about the Audible stuff, I'd REALLY appreciate it. RCA has NO help. Audible doesn't respond. And i'm going NUTS!! |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 05:41 pm: |
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i have a lyra 1028 and i downloaded a bunch of songs on it, however, i want to delete some but have no idea how! I tried doing what the book said but either i'm doing it completely wrong or it won't work...if anyone could help me please email me at czirbel@centurytel.net |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 01:33 pm: |
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I have a Lyra 2212, After removing all the tracks from my player, I have noticed 2 little problems, First, It says there are no tracks on the player but my memory is only at half of what it should be, how do I get that memory back.
second, if there are no tracks on the player, why do the song titles, and album names remain in the player.
I sure hope someone can help..Thanks |
New member Username: Boy9enius08
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 06:19 pm: |
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ok i deleted the firmware off my lyra RcA RD1028 can some one copy theirs and send it 2 me please my email is CartoonBoy222000@msn.com and my aim and yahoo id is boy9enius08 thanx |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:07 pm: |
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I have a Lyra 1072A. It worked correctly, but now when I try to start the player, it begin to start indefinitely. What must I do, and where can I find the firmware for update. Please, help me. |
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| Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 01:28 pm: |
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i just had a quick question. i just bought one of RCA's 128 mgb mp3 players about a month ago and it worked just fine over christmas break and then when i got back to school i went and pulled some songs off my school computer from my itunes (my school only uses apple softwear) and well afterwards my mp3 player wouldn't even turn on i tried putting new batteries in it and everything and it still wont turn on. so my question is does anyone know if there is something with itunes that would make it react like this or is it some thing else? and if its something else what could it be |
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| Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 09:22 am: |
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Hi!
My M200E512 Lyra mp3 player shows that:Incorrect Format,Reformat the player.But my comuter dont see the player.  HELP! I reinstall all drivers and programs and i can still open lyra on my computer. HELP! |
craig lake Unregistered guest |
| Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 12:55 am: |
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arghh!! I'm having the same problems as most of you.. I have the lyra 2010. It's never really worked well.
Everyone that needs software or to upgrade teh firmware, go to www.rca.com/digitalaudiodownloads and find your player and d/l what you need. If you get the firmware upgrade, then there is an option to format your flash drive which will clean it up completely.
I've done all that, plus (run 'chkdsk e: /f') which identified a whole ton of garbage which I eventually deleted. I'm like some of you, I just plug in the USB cable and using windows explorer, I open up the e:/ I've been able to drag some files to it just using windows, but no longer....
Now anything I try to sync or copy to the lyra, goes until somewhere between 18 - 43% then completely hangs, after 3-4 minutes it errors out with an IO error. I bought this stupid thing 6 months ago and what a complete waste of money. I don't even think I can take it back for any kind of refund or exchange. I don't think I'll ever get an RCA again -- I bought my daughter an off brand MP3 player for Christmas last month and have had 0 problems |
