aldi mp3 tevion player

amyyria

can anyone help, my daughter has purchased a tevion mp3 player about 3 weeks ago, all connected up ok, and the ''demo music '' plays ok, she had some mp3 music that she downloaded from tesco's site, it is clearly showing on the mp3 and when you play the mp3 back through the computer the tracks play ok, however we cannot get the music to play on the mp3 player itself are we doing something wrong in ''set up '' etc, or missing something basic please help

boogiemaster

Some mp3 players cannot play mp3s that are over 128bit quality.
Computers can play up to 320bit sample quality, the mp3 player will see the tracks but wont be able to play them
I had a car cd mp3 player and it wouldn’t play mp3s over 128bit, I had to convert the quality from 320bit down to 128bit.

penrhyn

I'm not sure whether this might be your problem but the tesco site downloads are in WMA format not MP3. Does the Tevion support WMA?

WMA:

Officially Windows Media Audio, this is an encoding format developed by Microsoft, and is the format of choice for the Tesco Download site. It delivers superior sound quality to an MP3 file, and also for legal download sites such as this, incorporates Digital Rights Management, which protects and license content to the user.

boogiemaster

You will have to convert the WMA TO MP3 and then it will play!
Just look for a WMA to MP3 converter on the internet.
I think the MP3 player will only play Wav files and MP3; it will use decoder software to play the mp3s

pandas66

We had a couple of problems with these a few weeks ago and after returning 2 players we then found out how to put the tracks on. We bought from Tesco Inovix 256mb mp3 player. Could see all the tracks listed, saw them playing but couldn't hear them, took it back and brought home another and it was just the same. We were flumoxed. Decided perhaps it was a cheap player so we upgraded to a ministry of sound 256mb hopeing against hope. Still no joy, so I took it to work for my IT guy to show me what to do. He put it in his pc and loaded some on and it played. The difference was he used tracks from the real player and we used tracks from media player.Duh.
My lovely younger son then found out how to do it.
Connect your mp3 player. You go into media player, you go into Guide, on the top tool bar, its a download site. Then you rip them into your library, right click the track you want, a menu comes, click add to, click Sync list, in the right of the screen theres a list 'now playing' click all the tracks you want to the sync list and then click start sync, these are being sent to your player. After its done it'll say how many tracks to your player.

alsmith_3

Sorry this is a bit long, but here goes.....

I got a 'sports' 1Gb Tevion mp3 player
( http://www.unisupport.net/fejlomraade.php?modelID2=135 ) from Aldi- lasted all of about 1 week (wouldn't play/access tracks but could see/move tracks when connected to the PC). I'm still waiting for a reply from Aldi after several months. I spoke to the store manager who was very helpful- I ended up at a store 10 miles away to get a replacement. I learned something from that- check items fully and carefully before leaving- yes, it was faulty- obviously a return as it had a music collection on it- the plug from included earpiece wouldn't fit. Annoying because they must have known why it was returned but were quite willing to try and get a customer to accept it.

Anyhow I have just got another replacement- a totally different player (Tevion FD160) It's lasted 10% of the time of the first one already!

Quick reveiw- the first one had muddy sound- no where near as defined as my rather old iRiver. And a horrible menu system too.
This one (FD160) has a built in rechargeable battery (I'd have preferred AA/AAA batteries but how long would I have to wait...). Sound is far better defined than the sports one was, but bass is not as deep/defined as the iRiver. Treble, higher frequency bell/pipe sounds used in a few of Hearts tracks are clear- as good as the iRiver. I haven't messed with equaliwser settings yet. So, pretty good for £28. And far better than the sports model which was sold for £50. (-btw the iRiver was over £200 when bought).

wma files ARE supported, (and mp1, mp2, mp3, wmv, wav), it seems DRM is not.

Anyone got one of the 4Gb LP-HD01 ones? Rechargeable battery again, but claimed battery life seems OK.

(btw my dislike of the proprietary rechargeables is obtaining and pricing of replacement batteries when needed).