'Portables' not in Media Library
 

Hi, I would like to use Winamp to manage my Samsung YP-U2 'MP3 player', but the 'Portables' heading does not even appear in the Media Library.:(
I was expecting to see 'Portables' as a heading in the Library but I only have:
Dashboard
Now Playing
Bookmarks
History
Local Media
Playlists
Rip & Burn
Online Services
SHOUTcast Wire

There are three Portable Device Plug-ins that appear in Preferences.

How can I get Portables to appear in the Media Library?

The YP-U2 is recognised by Windows Media Player.

Thanks in anticipation::)

Usually the Portables option doesn't show up until a device is plugged in. Guessing the three you see are Plays4Sure, iPod and Creative, right?

Correct!

Do I assume, therefore, that my player is not recognised by Winamp?

If so, is there another plug-in that will help?

One you plug the player in, does it show up then? If the player came with a CD, make sure you installed any drivers. Make sure no other player management software is running along with Winamp.

When I plug the player in, it does not show up in Winamp:(
It does appear in the system tray (and Explorer) as a USB drive.
All I have open is Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and Winamp.

if it shows as a usb device you may need to explicitly tell winamp to use it via preferences -> portables -> nullsoft usb device plugin -> select the drive letter that the device shows up as and then click ok (it should prompt you if you want to and agree to it)

-daz

DrO, thanks for your reply...

I don't have "nullsoft usb device plugin":(
A search for "usb" under "plugins" on this website comes up with "gUSB - all devices" is that the right thing? or can you tell me where to find the "nullsoft usb device plugin" that you referred to?

oneday

you'll need to re-install winamp and on the 'choose components' page there should be an option under... winamp library -> portable media player support -> usb device support and make sure that is checked before continuing in the rest of the install process

the lack of that explains why nothing was detected though if i remember correctly the usb plugin is only available on win2k/xp+ OSes (i don't know which OS you're using but if your not on one of those then the nullsoft one won't work - i don't know how the gUSB one would work as an alternative in that case but the prefered option is the nullsoft one if possible)

-daz

Thank you:)

Re-installed with correct box ticked...
Problem solved:)
My player is now recognised (as USB device) and I am asked if I want Winamp to manage it as a portable music player!

I wonder why that option is not selected by default for a 'full' install? Almost every other one is. It surely doesn't take up that much memory?

Anyway, thanks again for your help.

i can't remember the logic behind the handling of the usb support either (might even be a problem with the installer's logic itself though i know there's a few other 'quirks' with it that need to be resolved as well at some point...)

glad it's all working ok now (as soon as you said it showed as a normal drive it made sense that the support just wasn't present)

-daz

I believe the logic was because of external USB hard drives, too may people were saying yes when it asked if you wanted to add it as a portable.

Similar problem
 

But I've already installed this plug-in and tried to connect my IPod manually thru USB Device plug-in v0.54 and I've installed iPod plug v0.56.

It just doesn't work now, earlier it was, but not now... I've reinstall winamp lots of times, any idea?

My specs:
CPU: 2.2GHz (Athlon 2500XP+ Barton)
RAM: 2048MB DDR400 Kingston
OS: WinXP SP2

May be it's something with iPod? May be I need to re-flash him?