Overview
This pages summarises what is known about the Philips
GoGear devices. This information is based on the following sources:
- wiki
- Philips Songbird resources
List
Many devices comes in several generations and Philips way of naming players is known for being confusing.
The only number which is reliable is the model name but even in some cases, it might depend on the series number (like on the Vibe 8GB) !
The USB VID of Philips is 0x471 for all devices, only the PID is relevant. When two IDs are given, one is for MSC and the other for MTP.
Firmwares
Philips doesn't publish the addresses of the firmware but I found a pattern. Each player's firmware can be found here:
http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/s/NAME/NAME_hf1_LANG.zip
where
NAME
is the technical name of the player and
LANG
is the language. Here are known working examples.
Generally speaking, the name is of the form
PREFIX GEN BRAND SIZE SUFFIX
where
PREFIX
is
sa
for most players,
the generation can range from 1 to 5 currently, the brand is
ARA
for Aria,
RGA
for Raga, and so on. The size is
08
for 8GB,
16
for 16GB and so on. The suffix depends on DRM vs non-DRM and possibly other stuff. Common suffixes are
kf_37
for DRM
and
kf_12
for non-DRM but other exists.
Note that the server usually contains 4 files per player:
- the firmware (
hf1_LANG.zip
)
- some XML file (
hf4_LANG.xml
) but it doesn't work all the time
- a change log (
hf2_LANG.html
)
- an upgrade DLL (
hf3_LANG.dll
) but it doesn't work all the time (*)
(*) the upgrade DLL can anyway be found in the Philips
SongBird resources.
player |
NAME |
LANG |
GoGear Ariaz G4 non-DRM version (8GB) |
sa4ara08kf_12 |
fra |
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AmauryPouly - 08 Dec 2013
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