i got this RCA Emusic1 player on my birthday yay go me it says in the menu its a 489mb but i know mem doesnt come in that so im guessing its a 512mb and all missing mb are being used to run it. ne way when i try and access it while its plugged into the usb port (access is attempted through my computer/removable disk j {i have 7 usb ports on my comp}) it freezes up and wonty let me mess with pretty much ne thing some things work though sometimes but not directly i have to access them through task manager and i know i need to reformat and since i cant access it directly i need to find a "back door" and i was told everything had a back door and thats how people hack stuff but im not sure and i dont think i could find this again but ill try if yall cant email me (email is demenetdvampiress@aol.com) but like i said ill try and keep this site i would really appriciate any help i could get thanks alot ~Nichole~

~Nichole~, May 2007

Any one still have firmware rar for RCA 6652 ?
please email it to me h_surjuse at yahoo.com
Thanks

HS, December 2012

i can;t hear my music

crystal, December 2009

I tryed it... it did not work for me

palm ZIRE 72 123, September 2009

I tried this and held down the play button, but i get the error (unable to open bootmanager.sb file)

please email to jackig2002@yahoo.com

jack, September 2008

i got ihit mp3 as a gift from my big brother from USifd 512mb .ite thing i dont iklein that is sound carilityu othrt is is good

abhishek singh, September 2008

The whole rca.net.cn site seems to be down. I don't have access to my copy at the moment, but I see that david8888 from fatwallet.com has uploaded the file to megaupload.com Here's his link: http://www.fatwallet.com/redirect/bounce.php?afsrc=1&url=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MBBAL40C

Ryan, you might have to hold the power button down for as long as say, half a minute. Good luck. Let me know if you have any problems.

flashGoogler, March 2008

please any one send formating sofware to my e-mail id


kishorekadali@yahoo.co.in

kishore, March 2008

How long should I be expecting to hold down the power button until the player is "found" by the installer?

Ryan, February 2008

I could resurrect my RCA Emusic 1 player by following the advice by
flashGoogler, November 2007. Thank u so much

Shajan T.V., January 2008

Thank's flashGoogler

I download the file and run it and after that mi Emusic1 works so fine. I had tried to format directly with XP in fat and fat32 and I didn't get good results just wasted time but with your advice it works at the first.

Poncho, December 2007

If your EMUSIC1 is ailing, with symptoms like:

-Windows freezes during music transfer
-Windows freezes during attempts to reformat
-When turned on, you see only a blinking blue screen
-works as a USB drive, but not as an MP3 player
-totally dead

...and none of the above solutions work, you can probably bring your emusic1 back to life by reflashing its firmware. It's based on a SigmaTel chip, which is actually not a bad system, and their updater is very robust. Unfortunately, the firmware for my EMUSIC1 wasn't on the included CD, so when it died, I couldn't reflash it. RCA's western support sites also don't have the firmware available, and their email support is just an autoanswer stub. This product is packaged as a free giveaway when you buy 180 song downloads from emusic, so I guess RCA considers it a throwaway item.

But I didn't want to throw it away, and after much Googling, I finally used the Google translation feature to find a Chinese version of the firmware! Seems RCA takes better care of their customers in The Middle Kingdom...

In China the product is known as FM6652. This firmware is for the Chinese market I guess: It will first bootup in Chinese, but you can go through the menu and change the language to English, and from then on it will always boot in English. Note that ONLY English as well as the two variants of Chinese are available with this firmware. In the ReadMe file it shows version 1.716.2.001 If you use the device menu to show version, it shows version 1.01

Anyways, it brought my player back to life. I've been using it for about a week and it seems to work exactly like the firmware it originally had on it. BUT so far it hasn't exhibited any of the flakiness of the original (no more freezing of Windows during file transfers, etc! So far, at least...). I'm not making any guarantees that this is a better firmware version than the US market original, but it seems to be. The only bad news is, it hasn't improved the very short battery life - I get like two or three hours, same as before... OK, I do like my music LOUD!

Here's the link to the approx 5MB .rar download:

http://www.rca.net.cn/Down.asp?ID=0712711505835365&DownID=06121511170439198

To resurrect a dead EMUSIC1 on a Windows XP machine, download and decompress the rar file, then dive down through the folders, clicking on 6652... at each level until you come to stupdaterapp.exe Double click that and it will start looking for your EMUSIC1. Hold the PLAY button in on the EMUSIC1 while plugging it into the USB port. Keep that button down until you see that the program has started to find your player, then follow the prompts in the program. Note that the program will reformat the flash memory and erase any songs you have on it.

flashGoogler, November 2007

If you're RCA emusic1 IS funcional, I wouldn't reformat it. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Anyways, that is normal, I call that the "storage vig". If you get a 500 gig hard drive, it doesn't really have 500 gigs on it. Its more like 465. Vig'd

To format, go to my computer, then wait for the drive to appear(may take a minute or 10). right click the mp3 player and then format. I have read you're supposed to try fat32 before plain fat.

I bought 2 of these pieces of carp recently at circuit city. after the first battery went dead on both, it corrupted the players and they froze on the rca screen. One was fixed perfectly by formatting to fat32, but the 2nd player would not take...would freeze up during the format(yes, I waited up to 30 mins and no activity on the format window). I formatted the 2nd player in fat after and it seemed to work. wrong.

After the fat format, it would freeze while transferring that first file, and not take that first mp3 without corrupting it. The first track became a medley of 3 or 4 different songs fused together, that were supposed to have been wiped out by the format. I left the corrupted mp3 on there, and proceeded to transfer files on it....the 2nd song and all thereafter transferred with absolutely no problems.

It took me like 2 hours and many format attempts to figure out that I had to leave that corrupted mp3 on there. I just advance track if it pops up.

Oh, I have a ton of grateful dead and other trade friendy/legal bands like phish, moe., etc. free mp3 downloads at brentmydland.net

Enjoy!

mindbender89, November 2007

I reformat it on Win XP pro service pack2. Try windows vista premium edition under dos!?

TOFU, November 2007

I reformat it on Win XP pro service pack2. Try windows vista premium edition under dos!?

TOFU, November 2007

i tried the reformatting on my emusic1 but it keeps saying windows could not finish formatting it. what can i do now. i am having the most difficult time with this. please help... my email address is mala79935@yahoo.com.

mala, November 2007

Aldinboy:
Thank you, I just reformatted my mp3 player by following your instructions.

Jeff, October 2007

I tried holding down the play button while connecting to the computer and it worked great. Thanks HeyB. I had worked on this for several hours, kept having the computer freeze up and having to do hard boots, etc. It's a good device otherwise and cheap too. I'm using it on a Windows computer with Vista Home Premium op system.

jim, October 2007

Reformat didn't work for me, but I got this idea from the RCA website documentation for one of their other (better supported) players. With MP3 player power off, hold in Play button while you plug it into your (already powered on) computer's USB port. The emusic1 will power up by itself and be ready to talk to the computer again. Brought mine back from the dead twice this way. These things are a bit flakey... good luck!

HeyB, September 2007

I am having the same problem, but when I try to reformat it, it states bad sector. Does this mean time for warranty?

Joe Cooper, August 2007

Sean Jefferson and Rich Litz, Thanks so much...I am so excited to be able to use my mp3 player again. I had an ipod nano and lost it and decided to get a cheap mp3 player this time just in case and when it messed up after less than a week I was very sad. I appreciate you taking the time to post this Sean and tell Rich thanks for his knowledge!!

love from Kentucky,

Mandi

Mandi Brown, August 2007

Sean Jefferson
I just purchased a mp3 player which I accidently unplugged from my computer without using hardware removing tool and player was totally dead. I couldn't find the manufacturers phone and was going to discard the player until I read your advice. Thanks a lot, it worked great. Actually I initially tried to formatt but failed, the key was in your message ("wait 7-10 minutes") Thanks for the tip.

Jay, August 2007

try resetting by removing the battery for a while

salogan, July 2007

READY, just format your player in MS-Dos:
c:windows> format f:
(f:) in my case
and ready, joy your MP3 Palyer Emusic1

Aldinboy, June 2007

I had the same problems. Read the instructions, you need to install the software on your computer... then it works!

JT, June 2007

My Coworker, a software engineer, Rich Litz came up with a solution for an mp3 player that won't play anymore because it needs reformatting. Plug the mp3 player into your computer and wait for it to show up as a removable drive, then right click on the drive and choose FORMAT DISK from the drop down list. It may take several minutes as many as 7-10, but eventually the Format Removable Disk diaglog box appears. Choose "FAT32" as the File System and "Default allocation size" as the Allocation unit size, then click Start, again after clicking start there may be several minutes before you see the next dialog box screen, so be patient. This will reformat the mp3 player's flash memory and bring the mp3 player back to its original factory status. The mp3 player's operating system is hard-coded directly onto the chip itself and is not part of the flash memory, so once the flash memory becomes readable again the mp3's operating system is able to work with it once more and the device functions as normal.

Sean Jefferson, May 2007