AndyKatz
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Hi everyone,
Just signed on today.
I bought a used Karma from e-bay. It was in fine condition save the headphone jack doesn't work, which is okay, because I wanted to play files on my stereo. My Dell, which I bought without thinking about sound quality, has "on-board" sound, no card. Either my ears have improved in the past few years, along with our sound systems, or its ability to playback digital files has degenerated, because I can no longer evaluate the quality of digital files played directly from the pc. They all sound awful (I've been upgrading the sampling quality of most of the material I have to 192 kbps mp3 and/or 128 kbps wma minimums). Since I can't upgrade the computer sound, I thought I'd try the karma.
So far I'm pleased with it.
One problem, however, is that in spite of being connected to via ethernet to a broadband router, I can't get the network to recognize it as either a distinct node or a drive on the main computer. Password has been entered, and I can manage content using Rio Music Manager (though it's ability to recognize the player using ethernet only and not usb is spotty; right now it's hooked up via both, which is not a huge problem because the Karma will play while usb connected, a quality I didn't even realize it had).
Anyway ... are there readers who have their Karmas hooked up as separate drives using either usb or ethernet? Am I missing something here? Is there software or drivers I ought to be using?
Hope I was able to describe that clearly.
Thanks in advance,
Andy Katz
Just signed on today.
I bought a used Karma from e-bay. It was in fine condition save the headphone jack doesn't work, which is okay, because I wanted to play files on my stereo. My Dell, which I bought without thinking about sound quality, has "on-board" sound, no card. Either my ears have improved in the past few years, along with our sound systems, or its ability to playback digital files has degenerated, because I can no longer evaluate the quality of digital files played directly from the pc. They all sound awful (I've been upgrading the sampling quality of most of the material I have to 192 kbps mp3 and/or 128 kbps wma minimums). Since I can't upgrade the computer sound, I thought I'd try the karma.
So far I'm pleased with it.
One problem, however, is that in spite of being connected to via ethernet to a broadband router, I can't get the network to recognize it as either a distinct node or a drive on the main computer. Password has been entered, and I can manage content using Rio Music Manager (though it's ability to recognize the player using ethernet only and not usb is spotty; right now it's hooked up via both, which is not a huge problem because the Karma will play while usb connected, a quality I didn't even realize it had).
Anyway ... are there readers who have their Karmas hooked up as separate drives using either usb or ethernet? Am I missing something here? Is there software or drivers I ought to be using?
Hope I was able to describe that clearly.
Thanks in advance,
Andy Katz