November 27th, 2005
If you have a Treo, it probably goes everywhere with you, right? Why not carry your music and podcasts with you by taking advantage of the phone?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s storage capabilities?
Here is how it?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s done:
1. SD Card: Treo 600 and 650 models (and reportedly, the yet to be released Treo 700 as well) have an SD Card slot. If you have an SD Card today, pop it out to check the size.
This is a 1GB SD Card.
This will determine how many songs you can store. An average song takes between 3-4MB of memory, so here?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s an estimate of how many songs you can store based on the size of your SD card:
| SD Card Size |
Songs You Can Store |
| 16MB |
5 Songs |
| 32MB |
10 Songs |
| 64MB |
20 Songs |
| 128MB |
40 Songs |
| 256MB |
80 Songs |
| 512MB |
160 Songs |
| 1GB |
310 Songs |
| 2GB |
620 Songs |
2. SD Card Reader: Unfortunately, you can?¢Ç«®Ç—¢t sync songs from your computer to your Treo phone?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s SD card using Hotsync. Instead, you?¢Ç«®Ç—¢ll need an SD card reader, like this one:
Stick your SD card into the reader then plug the reader into your computer. Drag your favorite songs or podcasts onto the SD card. If you have a Windows computer, the drive will likely appear as a new drive in Windows Explorer. If your computer is very new, it may have an SD card slot built in, allowing you to skip the external card reader.
3. Put your SD card back in your Treo.
4. Play the songs. Treo 650 phones come with RealPlayer pre-installed. Click on that application (you may need to change your menu?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s display to ALL to find it). Treo 600 phones don?¢Ç«®Ç—¢t have an MP3 player installed by default. If you don?¢Ç«®Ç—¢t have one, check out Pocket Tunes.
5. Using Realplayer or Pocket Tunes (actual steps vary slightly for each program): Click Open, then select your SD card from the dropdown box on the upper-right hand corner of the screen. You should be able to see your songs. Click on the songs you?¢Ç«®Ç—¢d like to play. Click OK.
6. Using headphones. While the Treo has a speaker, it?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s not exactly Bose quality. Headphones will offer better quality, but there?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s a catch: Treo?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s do not have a normal headphone jack. You?¢Ç«®Ç—¢ll need to pick up this 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter:
Plug this into your Treo, and your favorite headphones into this.
7. Playing Treo tunes on your car stereo system. If you have a tape deck in your car you can use your car?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s stereo to play the songs stored on your Treo. Just pick up a tape adapter like the one below:
If you have a tape adapter lying around your house from your portable CD player days, you?¢Ç«®Ç—¢ll still need the jack adapter from step 6 to make it work with your Treo, but that?¢Ç«®Ç—¢s cheaper than buying the entire adapter.
You?¢Ç«®Ç—¢re done. You have now made your Treo even more useful and entertaining.
Post questions or comments below.
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Posted by:
phil on
December 14th, 2005 7:18 pm
palm desktop will sync your mp3’s right on….
I do it every day!
No card reader / writer needed…
Posted by:
Ed Kohler on
December 15th, 2005 7:19 am
Are you syncing them to your SD card, or onto the Treo’s internal memory?
If the latter, my problem with that is the limited storage on the Treo itself.
If you’re syncing directly to the SD card through Hotsync, let us know how you’re doing it.
Posted by:
Vince on
January 11th, 2006 3:45 am
I’ve transferred mp3’s to my Treo via Hotsync as well…
Just open up the palmOne Quick Install tool, then drag your mp3 files to the expansion card box and hotsync.
Admittedly, this might be slower than using a flash reader but it gets the job done.
Posted by:
Daryl on
February 16th, 2006 1:18 am
My experiences with MP3s on my Treo 650 are somewhat erroneus.
1.) Hotsync
I’m able to Hotsync to my SD card, using the method as described by Vince. Sometimes the MP3s don’t all sync over, even with plenty of space left on the SD card.
2.) Card reader
MP3s are copied to the folder named ‘Audio’ but the Treo seems to corrupt these files. Once the SD card is inserted into the Treo, the files are not detected by the Treo. Some are deleted and some are corrupted, no longer readable through the card reader.
I’ve contacted Palm about this. Their response is to check the folder I’m copying them to, but they have nothing useful to say apart from that.
I’m using 01.28 firmware and my Treo is GSM unlocked.
Posted by:
Greg on
February 19th, 2006 6:30 pm
I loaded some .mp3s to a folder on the SD card and popped it into my TREO 650. How do I get RealPlayer to recognize and play these songs. I open up RealPlayer and it says it can’t find any songs. Please help.
Posted by:
Ed Kohler on
February 19th, 2006 6:39 pm
Greg, make sure the folder is called SD_Audio, RN_Audio, or AUDIO or put the files in the root directory of the SD card.
Find more info under Real Player Notes Tips and Tricks on the RealPlayer site.
Posted by:
Jeff D on
March 21st, 2006 2:57 pm
Card Export (a software package for Treo 650) allows your computer to recognize the Treo as a drive. You can then just click and drag any files you want to the card.
Costs as much as an SD reader.
Posted by:
Ed Kohler on
March 21st, 2006 3:01 pm
Thanks for the tip, Jeff. I’ll check it out.
Posted by:
Agasi on
May 31st, 2006 3:28 pm
Can anyone help me? My treo 600 does not recognize any files on my SD card. It recognizes the card, but not the files.
Thank You
Posted by:
David Watson on
June 11th, 2006 8:43 pm
My Treo 650 will download to my SD card and you clearly see them on the phone itself , BUT when you go to play the song on RealPlayer on the phone, it says that it cannot share the license for the song with the computer. When I go to Real.com to install the device to Sync Licenses it does nothing therefore I cannot retrieve my music that I have legally paid for……………rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh, frustrating!!!
Thanks for any help
Posted by:
Courtney on
February 6th, 2007 6:55 pm
Ok..I don’t know if I’m just an idiot or what but I can’t seem to get anything onto my treo 650 smartphone…I have a cord that goes from my phone to the computer but for some reason it won’t create a connection…any suggestions?
Posted by:
Scott Plumlee on
April 24th, 2007 8:06 pm
I have a TREO 650 and I recently purchased a memory card to download music. I loaded the songs on the card, verified they were actually downloaded, and then put the card in my TREO. However I get a message telling me that there are are no playable songs found. To insert a memory card with playable songs. Well that is what I did! I even reformatted the memory card to make sure it was correct. I give up! I want to listen to my music and I don’t know how to upload it onto my TREO!! Someone please help me!
Posted by:
Kim on
May 26th, 2007 10:26 am
My Treo 650 also detects the card but when i go into real player it tells me no playable songs. I put the songs into the folder “PALM” on the sd card but they still do not open. Any help would be wonderful!
Posted by:
kameon on
June 3rd, 2007 1:20 am
I just got my Treo 650 and it has Real Audio on it. I’d like to turn my downloaded songs into ringtones…how do I do that? Is there a program?
Posted by:
chris on
June 11th, 2007 4:11 am
kameon you can download a program called ringo to make ur songs ringtones
Posted by:
veronika on
June 13th, 2007 4:07 pm
what if i dont have an sd reader
Posted by:
city on
June 18th, 2007 6:21 pm
wen i first put my card in the treo it had to format it then wen i put it in my laptop the first folder was palm just put ur songs there dont click on “palm” just put it in the same directory “palm” is in and it should work
Posted by:
Justin W on
November 26th, 2007 10:06 pm
Thanks, for the help the adding all the files to SD_audio folder helped ALOT!!! Thanks!!
Posted by:
Deerhunter on
January 2nd, 2008 1:56 pm
i can play the songs that i added to the SD Card, but when i go to the home directory and try and see what is on the card it shows nothing. i wanted to copy a couple of the songs over to make them ringtones … is there a way to do this or is there a way to even see the files (mp3) that are on the card without seeing them in RealPlayer?
Posted by:
sergio on
April 1st, 2008 6:39 pm
hi sir …or people out there…i need to put music on my palm1 treo 650 and i just dont know how to…..i bough the SD card and i did everything it said above me…..like making a folder that was called SD_audio and all the other things and my freaken awesome fone wont read the songs……can u help me?….if any one can, please send me an email to sergio_estrada1@yahoo.com….pliz….
Posted by:
rebin on
April 23rd, 2008 3:49 am
Can anyone help me? My treo 600 does not recognize any files on my SD card. It recognizes the card, but not the files.
tank you
Posted by:
Trey on
May 11th, 2008 12:48 pm
Well i have a treo600 or 650 and i downloaded some ringtones to my phone but it went to the real player how do i get them to be ringtones w/o using ringo bc ringo cost money
Posted by:
chris on
August 10th, 2008 2:31 pm
I have a treo650 and I download some songs on my sd card
but it wont show my songs in tha real player it say no playable song found what do I do is their certin kind of sd card I need please help me……………………………………..
Posted by:
kathryn on
August 20th, 2008 12:23 am
hey everyone.
okay so i just got a palm treo 650 and have no idea what so ever how to download songs ect. i don’t have the manul.
can you just download songs from the internet to the palm treo with out using an SD card?
help ???!?!?!?
thanks a bunch =]
crazykathryn12@aim.com
Posted by:
zappy on
September 18th, 2008 7:26 am
Good tips! A tip to search for free mp3’s: http://mp3xchg.com/
Posted by:
salim powell on
September 26th, 2008 9:08 pm
If your real player for your treo wont read songs create a folder called RN_Audio and that will fix it.
Posted by:
jeremy on
November 8th, 2008 1:35 pm
hi palm techs, I just got my first palm 650 treo and its great. I went out n bought a 4 gb memory card and had a friend download all these song on the sd card. but my phone doesn’t reconize that the card is in and I don’t know how to play them. can somebody please help me? I’ve put a lot of money into this phone and I can’t even listen to these cool songs…. please help soon.
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