How To: Use Dock Icons for the miniPlayer

Err0r · 11-15-2006

This guide explains how to give your M6 a drive image in My Computer, Windows. Depending on the icon choice, it will look more or less like this:

There are 15 icons to choose from, they can be seen below:

Here is how you do it:
1. Download the attached files and extract anywhere.
2. Look at the image above and choose an icon.
3. Copy your extracted files onto your mp3 player. Put autorun.inf in the root, and the icons in the SYSTEM folder.
4. Open autorun.inf with Notepad. You will see that it points to a icon, by default it is icon 1 ("icon=SYSTEM\M6_icon_1.ico"). If you have chosen to use another icon, just change the icon name. For example, if I choose to have icon 5, it will say "icon=SYSTEM\M6_icon_5.ico" in my autorun file.
5. Save, you can delete the unused icons from your player if you want. You can also change the drive name from "Meizu miniPlayer" to anything else, simply change the text after "label=" in the autorun.
6. Disconnect, reconnect. Voilá!

neofusionx · 11-20-2006

how do you get one small image out of that one big one?

liquidsense · 11-20-2006

What a nice trick!! Thanks Err0r. I also just discovered that you can do this with other USB items such as a USB stick. Very helpful. Thanks.

Oh, and neofusionx, if you download the .rar, you'll see the individual icon files in a directory.

glacier · 11-20-2006

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Originally Posted by liquidsense

What a nice trick!! Thanks Err0r. I also just discovered that you can do this with other USB items such as a USB stick. Very helpful. Thanks.

basically, this can be done with any UMS device. at least, that's what i read somewhere. :D

in any case, i love the dock icons. i've used it in my m6 and even named it "Horus". (i have a penchant for naming my gadgets. lol) thanks Error!

marcelo1251 · 11-20-2006

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Originally Posted by glacier

i have a penchant for naming my gadgets. lol

Me too!!, my miniplayer's name: "psych3" ... and yeah there are already "psych2" and "psych" :D

11-20-2006

You can do the sme trick with any removable media. CDs, DVDs...

grosskate · 11-20-2006

That doesn't work for me... The name works not and the icon too ... :/

Err0r · 11-20-2006

If it does not work you have installed it wrong. Did you follow the procedure above?

Kaori · 11-20-2006

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Originally Posted by grosskate

That doesn't work for me... The name works not and the icon too ... :/

Same here

I have done the same like you told, Err0r. I don't think its so hard that i could have done anything wrong :P

marcelo1251 · 11-20-2006

You may be erasing the label [autorun] that must be the first sentence on file.

Your file autorun.inf should have the following information inside:
[autorun]
icon=SYSTEM\M6.ico

In my case i renamed the icon that i like to "M6.ico" and copied to System folder.

Kaori · 11-20-2006

Thats inside my autorun.inf

Code:

[autorun]
icon=SYSTEM\M6.ico
label=Meizu miniPlayer

autorun.inf is in the root directory of the miniplayer.... and the icon is in the systemfolder and is named "M6.ico" ... so where can be the error? ^^ of course I have unplugged the miniplayer and connected again .. i also have rebootet the computer .. but nothing changes ;(

marcelo1251 · 11-20-2006

Weird... wich OS are you using?

Kaori · 11-20-2006

Win XP Home SP1

marcelo1251 · 11-20-2006

Well, it could be that you have disabled the autorun option for devices. do you get a screen asking you what to do when you plug in any other device such as USB memory or cameras?

That's the only content i have on in autorun.inf file ... that's the icon im using.

Try connecting in another computer... if you have the same as i have, then im pretty sure you have disabled the autorun functionality on windows.

glacier · 11-21-2006

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Originally Posted by marcelo1251

Me too!!, my miniplayer's name: "psych3" ... and yeah there are already "psych2" and "psych" :D

haha! nice to know i'm not alone in this. :D

Kaori · 11-21-2006

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Originally Posted by marcelo1251

Well, it could be that you have disabled the autorun option for devices. do you get a screen asking you what to do when you plug in any other device such as USB memory or cameras?

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That's the only content i have on in autorun.inf file ... that's the icon im using.

Try connecting in another computer... if you have the same as i have, then im pretty sure you have disabled the autorun functionality on windows.

You are right! On my sisters notebook it all works. hm... can you tell me where to enable the autorun function? i can't find it.

PoUëT · 12-12-2006

What a good trick ^^

My Meizu miniplayer now calls PoUeT Meizu miniplayer and 'got a wonderfull black icon.

Thank you for this Err0r, i'll try to use it on my USB keys to

DChronos · 12-19-2006

I'm new to this place, and I'm loving all this stuff I'm finding out here... exactly the kind of stuff I hoped would surface on this M6, though I figured it'd be half a year from now before I found anything about actually modifying the M6's background and stuff. Awesome!

Anyway, looking at this autorun thing, I was wondering, for all those program nuts out there, if it's possible to write a small custom program of some type that acts like a navigator for the M6, or other UMS device that would run with autorun?

Oh, and I have one other question... I'd like to have the M6_icon_1, but have it be the same size as the M6_icon_6 icon. They both use transperency, and the only difference is that icon 1 has a bunch of other icons in it for what appears to be different screen settings, and icon 6 has only 3 different ones in it. Could you possibly make icon 1 like 6? Otherwise, could you tell me what you used to combine the icons into one icon?

ahmedov · 05-01-2007

Thank you very much

Hendrik · 05-01-2007

great! thx