{"id":752,"date":"2011-02-21T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2011-02-21T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:57:29","slug":"new-gadget-cowon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/new-gadget-cowon\/","title":{"rendered":"New Gadget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last couple of years I have not been getting on too well with my second generation iPod Touch but it has been a bit of a love hate relationship… I love it when works well with my mac’s at home but find it a real pain on Windows, it works but it feels like I’m forcing it to work… even the sound feel damp and uninspiring.. <\/p>\n

Anyway, I thought it time was to try something different out, so I had a look around and decided to pick up the Cowon J3<\/a>. <\/p>\n

So what do I think about it, well I had an interesting first day experience… I managed to brick… yes… completely brick it… even for me this was a first!<\/p>\n

I used to have an old creative labs mp3 player and this used Microsoft’s MTP protocol and so did the new shinney J3… so I downloaded and built libmtp<\/a> and started to play around with the protocol to see if I could automatically create some playlist… well that was my intention… a couple of hours later the cowon froze up on me and pressed the reset switch and the reset button… and the rest has gone down in brick laying history..<\/p>\n

Using the guide at iaudiophile<\/a>.net I manager to get the right tools and the firmware to try and repair it myself.<\/p>\n

Using the tools above, I managed to install a new firmware but it still crashed with “checking albums” on startup.. so I decided to place the firmware on the micro sd card and I found it booted off this…. wow I thought its not completely bricked… Then I was able to mount the drive… re-format it as fat and then I re-installed the firmware… this time it worked!<\/p>\n

Anyway, as you can imagine after this first day experience I really was not too impressed with myself, libmtp or the cowon.<\/p>\n

Nows, its a couple of weeks later… I now have started to like my lovely cowon… at first I thought the user interface was childish but it has grown on me.. it simpy works when I need it to work.. however the nicest surprise is that I now love my music again but I have left libmtp alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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