Get a Card Reader!

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:41 am

Get a CF/SD Card reader for your PC - I just picked one up for $12 and it's the ducks-guts for file transfer to and from the SP-606.

Take the card out of the SP, chuck it in the reader and presto, super-quick file transfer. The "mass storage mode" of the SP is only USB 1 (slow) and the reader is USB 2 (fast).

So far, so obvious. It's gets cooler when you use SD cards on the other side of the little reader. I got a 4-gig SD card, made 7 Directories on it; called 'card 1', 'card 2' etc.

Now, my one CF card has become 7, and with super fast file transfer it's painless to swap sample-sets! Yay!

1x512 CF card + 1x4gig SD card + reader = all the cards you need!

technicolourbob · Post by **technicolourbob** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:21 am

Did you partition the card or did you just put folders in it?

cartesia · Post by **cartesia** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:25 am

directory = folder

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:05 am

Yeah soz about the 'ancient computer speak' .... what cartesia said.

Make a folder for each 'card'.

Technicolorbob - I've seen that name around - are you a shuffler?

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:08 am

Since everyone in this thread seems to be aussie - I'll tell you that the reader came from good 'ol ALDI. Go get it.

cartesia · Post by **cartesia** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:21 am

no ALDI in adelaide yet! thank god! :lol:

drewzle · Post by **drewzle** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:25 am

"ze germanz"

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:28 am

I have a family to support so I'm an ALDI fan. The other supermarkets (which are not aussie owned anymore anyway) need some competition. Aussies pay WAY more than our fellow first-worlders for groceries. It's like our super-slow internet and ultra-crap cable TV.

Politicians really think we are a bunch of know-nothings who don't have any idea we are being ripped off :roll:

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:30 am

What's wrong tommy? :lol:

drewzle · Post by **drewzle** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:47 am

yeah Aldi is great. i've got a compulsive munchies habit, Aldi sorts me out for less coin...plus their chocolate is tasty

didn't realise they had electronic stuff too

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:15 am

Branded stuff too!

The reader is EMTEC - available at Big-W for $34. Exact same product.

And that German chocolate - how good is it ay???

technicolourbob · Post by **technicolourbob** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:32 am

606man - Nah I'm not a shuffler but I do do VJ'ing (live visuals) around some Melbourne venues. I also entered that pioneer DJ/VJ competition a few months ago so you might have seen the name there.

606man · Post by **606man** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:11 pm

akh ok - I thought I saw the name on MelbourneShuffler forums. Must've been an imposter :evil: