Toshiba *.SAT files

[Calamormine]

I own a Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 player, which converts all files going onto the player into *.SAT format. I recently suffered a virus attack that formatted my hard drives, and now the only place my music exists is in this *.SAT format on my MP3 player. Is there a codec to convert back into *.MP3 format, or am I just screwed here?

[xoas]

In looking at a few articles about the Gigabeat, I did not see any mention of the possibility of uploading files from the player to the computer, although I did see where this player will be recognized by your PC as a hard drive and one reference indicates that the .sat format is a kind of WMA meta file.

So there may be a few alternatives. I would first try to see if you can open these files with your player connected to the computer. You might try referencing ChristinaS' FAQ on meta-files here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=4992
for ideas about strategies for working with meta-files.

The last-ditch possibility is to try to use dMC Auxilary input to record your files as they play over your soundcard (which I would reserve chiefly for material that you cannot easily re-rip, since re-ripping from scratch would be quicker and would probably allow better quality). For this to work you need to be able to use your player to play files over your computer either through the USB connection or through a line-out from your player to the line-input of your sound card. I am theorizing since I am not at all sure that the Gigabeat has a line-out other than the headphone jack or that you can play files from your player through the computer via the USB connection. For more information on using dMC Auxilary input, you can reference the FAQ by ChristinaS here: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=7318

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Bill

[ChristinaS]

The way I understand is that the SAT file consists of the audio file plus a wrapper, the whole thing saved with the extension .sat , which is the only way that player will play it.

If you can see .sat files on the player's drive, then copy them to your pc's hd and check the file size. If it's large enough, in the roder of several hundred KB , up to a few MB then that's the audio file itself wrapped in whatever extra code makes up the .sat file. If it's small, then it's like a meta-file, giving an address of the actual audio file somehow.

In either case, open such a file in Notepad and see what it contains. Don't attempt to remove the human readable text (I assume there may be some). Post back your findings and we'll take it from there.

[ChristinaS]

I think I found something for you that looks promising: http://www.mygigabeat.com/forum/messages.cfm?threadid=3DC5BA00-3048-2906-EA551C3954F6BA66