Vangald Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I am looking for an MP3 player that allows you to plug in a thumb drive and play songs off of it. Does this exist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Creative used to make them back when 256MB was a lot of storage. Creative Muvo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vangald Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 Creative used to make them back when 256MB was a lot of storage. Creative Muvo I have one of those for my parents and the model I have doesn't allow you to plug a thumb drive into it, but it does come apart and allow you to use it like a thumb drive. What model of the Muvo are you referring to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I think thats as close as your going to get, if I still had one i would have taken it appart and tried with a regular thumb drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vangald Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 Well the problem is that the part that takes a USB input is just a power source. It is the part that has the batteries. I am starting to wonder how hard it would be to build something like what I am wanting with an arduino kit. Problem being I have never messed with arduino let alone pic controllers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 So you just want to power the player from USB? Easy, find out what the voltage output on the batteries is, if it's 5v just solder a USB connector straight in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vangald Posted December 5, 2008 Author Share Posted December 5, 2008 So you just want to power the player from USB? Easy, find out what the voltage output on the batteries is, if it's 5v just solder a USB connector straight in there. No. I have my entire music collection (for the time being until it outgrows it) on a 32 GB Patriot Xporter USB thumb drive. I would like a player that allows me to plug said thumb drive into it and be able to play music directly off of the thumb drive. The comment about the the power unit was in reference to the Creative MuVo players which don't have anyway of plugging a thumb drive into them cause they are basically and mp3 player/thumb drive. It comes in two parts. The thumb drive/MP3 player and a small unit it plugs into that takes one AAA battery and will power the Muvo player through its female USB-A recepticle.Here is a pic of what I am talking about -> The other versions are just MP3 player thumb drive hybrids just for the sake of quick transferring songs from PC to the player without extra cables. I hope that all made sense cause I just got off work and I am real groggy so I may have just posted jibberish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webjockey Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 Mod another Patriot Xporter (for the sake of the other one's data) with Creative Muvo controls or something? seems difficult to achieve, probably because it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I could have sworn I've seen a cigarette adapter fm transmitter dealy that took USB for its media and just had the most basic play/pause next/back buttons. It was cheap too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkdelauney Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 I could have sworn I've seen a cigarette adapter fm transmitter dealy that took USB for its media and just had the most basic play/pause next/back buttons. It was cheap too! I saw a few of those things in the automotive section at the Wal-Mart near my house a few months ago. One that took USB and SD cards. Not sure how hard it would be, but I suppose you could find the power regulator and push a lower voltage into it after that point, then take the output of the preamp and pipe it into an audio device instead of the FM transmitter... you know, for when you're not in the car. Or am I just being silly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vangald Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 I will keep my eyes open for this when I get to work tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 A small netbook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razor512 Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 http://www.amazon.com/Coby-MP305-4G-Player...5555&sr=8-1 or just get one of these, this is the closest you will get to usb flash drive mp3 player thats not really old but coby does suck in quality and have no warranty http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-sansa-e250.../205562657.html get that, and get a cheap micro sd with lots of storage to expand the storage I have one, there cheap ($24.99) it plays video, has great battery life easy to use and works great i have the recertified one but it works great and is nearly indestructible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellmark Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Razor, but those don't meet the requirements of using a thumbdrive as the storage media. As far as using thumbdrives, I've only seen car stereos and adapters like Darren mentioned use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vangald Posted December 13, 2008 Author Share Posted December 13, 2008 It just seems really weird that they don't make one that can use USB drives. Unless it takes more power to run a thumb drive than the other solid state media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 13, 2008 Share Posted December 13, 2008 The problem is file access more than any thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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