Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

As mentioned before I got a SanDisk Sansa e250r MP3 player for Christmas. I was replacing a 512mb MP3 player that I had gotten free from my Napster subscription.

The main reason for wanting to get rid of the 512mb MP3 player was that I could only get about 5 full albums on it. The e250r had 2GB of space so I expected to get about 20 albums on there.

To my disappointment I was only able to get about twice as much on the e250r. The reason for this was that it was preloaded with almost a gigabyte of music that they wanted you to subscribe to Rhapsody music service to continue to listen to. Some of the music was cool but not 1GBs cool.

Unfortunately it took a little digging but I found where all the preloaded music was hiding out and was able to delete it.

This is where it was hiding - \system\music\

There are 275 .rax files in this locationby default from the factory.

UPDATE: You will also need to delete the PP500.DAT file under the System\data directory. This will delete the entries from your database. I had deleted the songs but they wee still showing up in my Album, Artist, and Song lists.

Now that I have more space I have some ripping to do to fill my Sansa back up again.

Technorati: MP3, MP3 Player, Sansa e250r, iPod

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