I pick one up, get it Friday, load it up with 1. I was fairly happy with my purchase at this point. I figure maybe I can just reset the thing and it would reformat itself, the back says hold the power button off for 10 seconds to perform a reset. No dice. I Googled for some results, and get a bunch of tales of woe about sending the thing back to the manufacture for more than I paid for it in the first place.
I was starting to think I should have been Googling this model before I bought it instead of now. As a determined geek, I figured I could fix this thing by myself.
I downloaded the manual, and found an interesting fact. I did this, did an fdisk and set a single partition to type b Win95 FAT32 not sure if this step was actually required. I had to emerge dosfstools to get mkfs.
After this it fired back up as a blank drive, and I copied my 1. Probably not a good solution for people not running Linux to begin with, but I would guess any self respecting distribution Live trial CD would probably have USB enabled and mkfs. I was out jogging when the screen on my Lyra froze. I was unable to recover it with any combination of efforts, and finally decided just to buy a replacement. I decided to switch to a flash based model, and after a bit of research selected the 8Gb Sansa player from Sandisk, which I have been pretty happy with overall.
Good luck to everyone who still owns a RCA Lyra. Not sure if you ran into a similar issue, hoping you have some advise. Trying to deal with RCA customer serivce and tech team is a joke. I tried following the directions in the manual on a Windows XP system, and had no luck whatsoever.
I was very glad I was able to fix it up from my linux box at home. All you would have to do is download the live trial CD, burn it to a CD, reboot your computer to it, and then try to follow the steps I outlined in the blog post. Perhaps someone else will chime in who has had better luck following the manual directions under Windows.
Thanks for the info. Same issue…because mine was refurbished RCA was unable to help, I did however get a phone numbe 1 I hope this helps anyone who may have purchased one that was not reburbished… Still waiting on a windows fix…. You are practically a life saver. I have to give you props for this. It runs perfectly. I am a paralegal with the law firm of David P.
Hi, File System corrupter error. Is there anything that I can do?? Also, it is not a good idea to download music online, that is probably a virus from limewire or some of the sort.
My girlfriend got this peice of shit for christmas. Clearing them dosent change anything, nor does rebooting. Then I tried looking their website and nothing comes up. My son purchased a rca rda player for his birthday. He spent After finally getting a number to contact them they tell us we there has been a known issue with these and we will have to pay I cant believe this!
I have tried to reset this thing and it still will not work! Upon turning it on, the RCA logo just flashes and thats it. Reset does nothing and I do not know how to reboot or reformat this unit. Their website has to the most confusing place on earth. Do they have a support number to call before I ship this thing off and wait? I cannot find one anywhere, its nuts.
I got the RCAHA and for about 3 months it was completly fine then out of no where it just says file sytem corrupted.. Safely stop the Lyra jukebox from the system if your version of Windows requires this. Power off the Lyra jukebox and disconnect the USB cable. The Lyra jukebox will automatically power on and the upgrade process will automatically start.
Removal of the power adapter during this process may cause damage to the device. Usually between minutes. When this screen is reached, power off the jukebox. Some assistance would be nice. Just wanted to say thanks for your informative page. I followed the first part of the instructions by Jason which helped alot by holding down the joystick while plugging in the USB connector.
Format it now? Thanx, everyone for all your helpful advise. Hope this helps also. The only problem was that when you put new songs on it the computer won't see it. I even tried on linux and vista to see if that would work since they both worked before. I left it alone for a day usually fixes everything else went to charge it but I guess the battery fully died. Sold by: Newegg Shipped by Newegg.
This item is currently out of stock and it may or may not be restocked. Out of Stock. Add To Wish List. Are you an E-Blast Insider? Get Educated. RCA Lyra 1. Refurbished This means the product was tested and repaired as required to meet the standards of the refurbisher, which may or may not be the original manufacturer. It gives you up to hours of WMA format music. Verified Owner. Did you? Yes No. Pros: holds alot of music,easy and basic navigation, rca support online is ok cheapest around a good deal if it works Cons: system corrupt file usually means you have to open the back will void warrenty, though its only thirty days and reconnect a black cord, file cant be found means you have to reinstall firmware and maybe reformat Overall Review: worth the money if you can keep it working, if you google it you will see its problem prone, rca call in support is worhtless and it almost cost more to ship it in then to buy a new one but for 20 if it works for a year then its way worth it.
Pros: Lots of space for music, and easy interface. Pros: Easy to move music. Not sure if it's due to its refurbished status, or because i got suckered : Cons: see above Overall Review: have a nice day. Highlight the folder by clicking on it once and right click and choose delete and it should be gone. If you have other songs on there do the same thing and it should delete them too. Don't use Musicmatch. It worked one time and keeps on telling I needed a device plugin after I downloaded it from the net.
To add your songs with your player still connected to your computer. Open my music on your computer and highlight the songs you want on there and right click and choose Send to and you should see the E Drive or whatever drive your player is on then left click 2 times and it should send the music you have chosen to the memory of your player..
I would say this make sure you add MP3 songs. I think if you try to add wrong songs formated song you are not going to hear them on this player. Ipod and Lyra don't mix. It is like oil and water. You should be able to delete the songs off your player the way I mention above and put the Mp3 song on it the way I stated above. By the way someone mention they could not get the player memory and their SD card memory.
You can not have both. You have to take the card out to play the internal memory of your player and then put your card in and play the songs on the card. As for reformating your player it makes sence but I do not know how to do it.
I got mine for christmas and added the song from my computer like I mention above and I have had no problem with my player except changing out the battery.
I hope this answered most of the questions about the Lyra Player. Must update Lyra HD System files. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm just now beginning to realize how much I rely on this thing. Aretard Unregistered guest.
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, - GMT ok i have a RCA Lyra RD and its a piece with the whole holds like 18 songs ne way but i have a scandisk mg sd card and when i put it in it wont stay in it just pops outand i feel really retarded can anyone recomend a good card that works well with this model.
Therefore, i can't install the darn thing. What do i do, who do i call, can anyone help me please! Anwyway I was syncin the songs from WMP10 but that quit workin so I have been click and drop from the actual music file both from "my music" to the H:disk on My Computer which sometimes is throught the WMP10 and other times from the folders from emusic.
I was able to get 97 songs on the gig card. Now no matter when i am trying to get the song to the card it says ,,,"Cannot Copy "song name" The Directory or File Cannot be Created. Trey Unregistered guest. Also whats up with using the disk again I didnt notice anything important there But I will try double clicking the icon in the tray.
Thanks for your help trey They are all greatly welcome. Hope this info helps you Sailor guy Unregistered guest. Posted on Thursday, February 23, - GMT I thought that Gateway was full of it when they said it wasn't their fault when my tower started smoking!
Now I'm beginning to wonder!!! My tower got so hot that when I went to shut it off, the button burned my finger and blistered my cuticle!! Where i can gain rca proof to show to the store that it was made before June 05????? And still whats up with the disk and the heaven forebid i sound as atupid as i am but the firmware?? Well I am outta here gonna go find some audible books! Posted on Saturday, February 25, - GMT Tech support I have search the internet and did not find out about any recall so it might be true or it is not true.
Which is it? If it fried your HD how are you using your PC? Nice to hear a voice of sanity on this "oh my goodness" board. Thanks for quelling the fears. I dont know if you saw it I dont remember who wrote it but tech support.. M-F 8 to 8 ends I havnt tried it yet but i thought that i'd pass it on.
Stay sane. And keep the voice of reason close. The tower that got fried was my HOME computer. Second of all, where did I state that there was a recall??? I just thought that I would give everyone a heads up on some information that I came across from some peoples personal experiences.
I researched it and found the serial number breakpoints of the units in question. I came here to post them and now I see these personal attacks, so you know what? Find the information yourself!!! So much for trying to be helpful and pass along a friendly heads up! Didn't mean to touch a sensative spot. Hope ya have a better day. Nobody is disrespecting you, it's just you come here with this kind of info.
And one other thing, please grow up and stop trying to hold us "hostage" with your information! DO not buy their lowgrade peice of crap products. They may seem fine at first But trust me! LoathingRCA Unregistered guest. I noticed that my computer was reading mb of memory instead of mb of memory. I beleive that either my player's firmware is corrupt, or the player's formatting is wrong. My frined has the exact same model as i do, and his has worked just fine for months now Your Lyra player is a MP3 player.
Don't try to put Ipod format on this player. There is no software that I know of to redo the player back to when you brought it home. Do as I stated above as for as put music on or taking it off the player. This is my last post here because most of you donot read or can't read posted answers to the same questions. This player is not going to cook you breakfast or clean your house or work a miracle for you.
It just plays MP3's. Good luck when you screw your player up reformating it and wanting it do something it was not made to do. Have a happy life. So as you head out there to your new BBS's Remember these are just bulletin boards. An analytical accumulation of humanity comming together. This is just a place to help eachother out and talk a bit. Its not meant to be your only sourse of socialization.
It won't go out for a burger with you or hang out down at the mall or even be your best bud. Its just mpy's on a BBS. Have fun feeling this exact same way the next board you screw up on At first we thought ya might be cool and knowledgable , but man Good luck trying find a "BBS home" online It's really just 1's and 0's.
Have a Happy Life!!!!! Unregistered guest. Posted on Friday, March 03, - GMT Please help me i am unabled to find a memory card for the rca rda can anybody help me????
I managed to compress all my songs to WMA 64kps format so I can fit so many. My computer says I have songs at the moment, but the player only reads upto Anyone have a similar experience or know why? I have already formatted the player in Windows XP Pro Posted on Wednesday, March 08, - GMT i need the software for my lucra a please help me!!!!!!!!! Today i went to play it and after starting it the HDD in it started clicking repeatedly during the loading screen. Then the screen goes to File System Corrupted!.
My computer no longer detects it and i am unable to format the drive to try and replace these corrupted files. Any Ideas on how to correct this prob would be helpful. I really dont want to lose the money i paid for it. With the use of USB Cable i format it and insert new mp3 songs there but when i play it doesnt work.
What can i do? Posted on Friday, March 17, - GMT need software for lyra a any help would be greatly appreciated thanks! There are no hi-speed usb host controllers installed on this computer. Can someone please tell me what i should do? I know this isn't something wrong with the headphones, because I've tried more than one pairs.
If you know how to solve this problem, please respond soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I found this link. Posted on Monday, May 22, - GMT Hello i hve RCA lyra RDA i dont know whats wrong on my player when i put it on its stuck on the main screen and one times it shows the harddisk prob tell me plz what will i do thanx.
Posted on Monday, May 22, - GMT Hello i hve RCA lyra RDA i dont know whats wrong on my player when i put it on its stuck on the main screen and one times it shows the harddisk prob and errror is "File system corrupted tell me plz what will i do plz give my solution tto this email rizwan. As a matter of fact, I'm dealing with this same problem.
The thing is, I already fixed it once, but can't seem to fix it again. I'll explain. The way I fixed it, was that on the side, it says RD, so I clicked on it and went to my selections. I deleted the songs there, and it deleted them on my Lyra as well, thus, fixing my problem. The thing is, when I went to MusicMatch, it did the same thing. But I haven't figured out a way to fix it. Currently, I'm trying to, but have found no luck whatsoever. Hopefully this will help some of you fix your problems.
Also, when it says "File System Corrupted! It's a pain, but it works. I've read a lot here and I want to know if it is more trouble than it's worth? I live in the uk and bought this in the usa i can see there seems to be a lot of problems with this make i hope someone can help out with this cheers to all great site by the way.
Sometimes it will freeze while a song is playing when i try to turn up the volume, or when connected to one of those car-tape connecters. Why does it do this? I dont know if it has something to do with the amoun of songs i have or what.
I changed all the settings to the energy saving ones and it still only has about 30 min worth of battery life. When I try I get an error message. Please help. I tried RCA web without success, could somebody let me know where to find it.
Thanks, janetagu bellsouth. I tried charging it and it doesnt charge. It kept saying files corrupted, so I thought what the heck! You take the screw out from behind the lable on the back and slide the back up and it pops right off. Posted on Sunday, August 06, - GMT Dear Freedom-bnd - the reason your aduiobook files are out of order is that the lyra only looks at about the first 5 or 6 letters in the file for ordering, so if all the files are "Stephen-King-Cell You have to rename them so that they start with numbers, like 01, 02, The files are now "Stephen-King-Cell Note that you have to say "09", not "9" for ordering to work with more than 10 files.
Here's a tip for windows - click once on a file, then press F2 to rename it, then press the "home" key to go to the start of the file name. You can then press the down arrow key to go to the next file. Posted on Tuesday, August 15, - GMT I have recently reformatted to XP, and when trying to connect my RDB to my computer I get the following message: "the Mtp device is a hi-speed usb device and will function at reduced speed when plugged into a non-hi speed port.
This file corrupted message has gotten the best of me! Has anyone figured out how to fix it yet? I would appreciate the feedback. Posted on Sunday, August 27, - GMT I followed David's directions about deleting and adding songs and they worked like a charm.
I was ready to throw that little MP3 player in the trash. Posted on Tuesday, August 29, - GMT i got an rca lyra mp3 player and accidently deleted the lyra folders and now it doesnt turn on it just says bad or missing lyra system folders and turns off. I bought one of my daughters an Ipod and am now wondering why I didn't buy myself one. I'm hoping to fix the problems iwth this before I have to take it to the store and put it somewhere I know the clerk doesn't want it.
First off I was having problems with it locking up and not turning off. Now I see that you have to hold the power button for 20 secs to get it so shut off and reset??? OK, I guess I'll try that next time.
It's better than waiting for the battery to run down. Then I had a few problems with downloaded music. I downloaded some music to the player and i wanted to redo what I had done so I removed it. Well it wouldn't profile so I could clear the log. I decided to forge ahead. I reloaded music on and wouldn't you know it.. I had ALL of that music on there. BUT it wasn't actually on there.
After much cussing and a few downloads It finally profiled for me. Now I find myself with another issue. I do not have the Lyra System Tray Icon that I am supposed to have to be able to profile my device ont he computer.
That would be a nifty little tool. I have loaded, reloaded and reloaded software and patches. To no avail.
It says that the Lyra is supported.. Or are they different? I can't get an answer from RCA. And its not the CDs because i clean them before i download them and i get songs off limewire.
The original version of the firmware was i believe, and now i can't get anything on it. I'll send a gmail invitiation to the first person who can fix it. Posted on Sunday, September 10, - GMT I am sure somebody has posted this but there are so mant posts I have not read all of them. What do I have? RCA Lyra Problem: downloading songs of course.
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