I've bought an MPMan F20 MP3 player, one of the very first players on the market. The troubles that I'm having, is that I would like to format the device and transfer new MP3s to test, but frankly the box didn't come with the parallel port transfer cable.
Are there any schematics so that I could build my own, or is there a cable that I can buy relatively easy?
I don't see how you can build one, apart from the pinout (it uses a standard DB25 for the PC parallel port -> 18 pins) the connector on the player side also looks proprietary. I'd say your best chance is trying to find the original cable, but hopefully someone proves me wrong.
konc wrote on 2024-08-03, 09:01:I don't see how you can build one, apart from the pinout (it uses a standard DB25 for the PC parallel port -> 18 pins) the connector on the player side also looks proprietary. I'd say your best chance is trying to find the original cable, but hopefully someone proves me wrong.
I believe it used the same cables as to what Samsung had, as well as some other early MP3 players.
TheWiredIsUponUs wrote on 2024-08-03, 12:18:I believe it used the same cables as to what Samsung had, as well as some other early MP3 players.
Everything I've found suggests that it used a 25 to 18 pin parallel cable, and this ebay photo shows the cable. Did you research it and your findings are different?
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/P6wAAOSwq9BmZ3g2/s-l1600.jpg
konc wrote on 2024-08-03, 13:24:TheWiredIsUponUs wrote on 2024-08-03, 12:18:I believe it used the same cables as to what Samsung had, as well as some other early MP3 players.
Everything I've found suggests that it used a 25 to 18 pin parallel cable, and this ebay photo shows the cable. Did you research it and your findings are different?
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/P6wAAOSwq9BmZ3g2/s-l1600.jpg
I did some research into this, and I might be wrong, but a former Samsung employee supposedly worked for Saehan after he left to work on the MPMan. Noticed that some Samsung MP3 players used the same 18-pin connector.
