Weird behaviour with MP3 player

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I recently found my old MP3 player that was thought lost. But - I can't delete (or even see) the files that are stored on it! There are other problems as well - using XP SP3 here (I guess all these troubles are caused by a single setting somewhere so I'm lumping it all in one thread):

If I set it to list itself (through Autoplay) it opens a Window's Explorer window although DOpus is set to replace Explorer for all file system folders (recommended), and indeed inserting any other removable drive results in opening a new DOpus tab / lister (as is most practical for me).

When opened through the "Drives" in the Folder Tree, the status bar becomes empty (works normally for all other removable / inbuilt drives).

I remember I used to manage this MP3 player in DOpus on my old machine and it always got detected as as a USB drive, but now it shows up as "MTP Player". I have tried uninstalling it through Hardware manager but it just installs itself back.

So, can I just make this USB drive appear in DOpus as a normal folder in my lister?

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Making the device mount as a standard drive instead of an MTP player is the key, but how to do that I have no idea as it's something to do with the device and/or its drivers/software rather than Opus. Once it shows up as a standard drive, Opus will be able to see it.

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Found it (figures - a minute after posting the question :wink: You were right - it has to be installed differently, it's not in direct connection with DOpus.
Apparently it's the Media Transfer Protocol that is trying to act "smart"... anyway:
eugeneboon.com/hello-world/

4

MTP is now a critical support requirement for Opus. Tablet devices with Adroid Honeycomb OS require host computer to support MTP. Win 7 Explorer handles it just fine. Since Opus v10 is a new release maybe I missed how it does but it doesn't work on my Win 7 64bit.

5

I've patched the firmware of my 3 years old mp3 player. BEFORE: MTP, AFTER: UMS (universal mass storage system). Works fine now with DO10.

I think that DO10 doesnt support MTP devices in its Dopus native display. Maybe in future?