MpMan MP-F70 SD card manager software

Greetings!
The job of this humble page is to present you the Java software I've written for the MpMan MP-F70, which I hope might be usefull to others.

What is an MpMan MP-F70 ?

The MpMan MP-F70 is an mp3 player with the following features:

What does this software of yours do ?

Personally I quite like this mp3 player, it's robust, has quite a lot of functions, and it supports SD cards which is a big boon to me.
But it does have one rather major flaw, the interface to the PC. To sum it up:

Mind you, It's still usable, and some people seem quite happy with it, but for me it was a bit of a pain :)

Now luckily the device supports SD cards, which you can take out and fill with mp3's using a common cheap USB 2.0 cardreader, which fixes all the problems mentioned before. There's only one catch tho. The device demands to have supporting files besides the mp3's themselves, which hold a playlist and information for each mp3.

This is where my software comes in. It can put mp3 files on a SD card that's accessed via a regular SD card reader, and will add those support files while doing so, which means after that you can just plug it in the MP-F70 and it'll happily play your music :)

What won't it do ?

It's important to understand that this software does not directly interface with the device, it can only prepare SD cards which have been mounted as a drive via a generic SD card reader. This also means the software cannot work with the internal memory of the device, it will only work for SD cards.

So what will this cost me ?

Here's the good part, it's free :)
This program is released under the GNU General Public License, and any third party libraries it uses are licensed under compatible licenses like the GPL, LGPL or BSD license.

Great, where can I download it ?

Click here to download :)

And then ?

As mentioned before, this software is a Java program. You will need to get the latest Java 1.4 from Sun, and install it before you can use this program. After that you just need to double click the .jar file, or if that does not work type 'java -jar MusicManagar-version.jar' in a console.

Any way to contact you ?

If you run into any problems, want to suggest a feature, find out more about this mysterious person, or just say thank you, contact me on mpmanf70@xs4all.nl.

Where to next ?

First I recommend you have a look at my other page, showing the gory insides of the player :)
You might be interested in the Linux MpMan MP-F70 support project, which helped me a lot creating this software.
Ofcourse the official MpMan site and it's European brother site might be interesting aswell.

Anything new ?

27 Apr. 2005

Added a seperate page with pictures and info on the insides of the player, go have a look! :)
Warning: it contains about 500kb of pictures, which might take a while to load on a slow connection.

26 Apr. 2005

New version of the software:

Also I took apart my own MpMan, to have a look inside :)
I'll post pictures of that when I have some more time, but for now the interesting details, the actual chips used inside:
Note that on the inside are two sandwiched PCB's, and I didn't dare pry them apart :) I could see at least one chip inbetween, which I think is the actual flash memory chip. If anyone ever breaks his I'd like pictures of that part too :)

Also I like to mention a helpfull hint from another user, for some silly odd reason it seems that when using the MpMan manager software, holding the power/play/pause button on the player stops those annoying disconnect errors which tend to pop up all the time.

7 Feb. 2005

New version of the software:

2 Feb. 2005

Creation of this site, first (betaish) release of the software.