mp3 or jpg with Series 1 ?

[lloydjs]

I have an Sony SVR2000 series1 Tivo which I recently hacked using Steve Jenkins' tutorial. I now have ftp, telnet, and TivoWeb running and I love it.

Can I transfer mp3 files from my PC to my Tivo and listen to them using Tivo? If so, how?
I know I CAN ftp the files but I don't know where to put them or how to play them from the Tivo.
Same question with my jpg pictures.

I found something called Tivo Desktop that seems to do this but I think Tivo Desktop can only be used with series 2. Can someone confirm this?

Thank you in advance,
Lloyd

PS: I highly recommend the Steve Jenkins' uprgade tutorial to all newbies. It worked great for me.
http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/network_cd.html

[litzdog911]

Not possible with a Series 1 Tivo.

[lloydjs]

This is a bummer and another reason I should have bought a series2 when I had the opportunity a few years ago and transferred my lifetime subscription from my series1 . I figured I would wait until I had a good reason to buy a series2 and switch then; I was satisfied with my series1 at the time. However, now Tivo will only allow me to switch my lifetime to a series3 and I am not ready for that; a series3 is expensive and I don't have an HD TV.

I have Vonage for my home phone and would love to use TiVonage, but like .mp3's and .jpg's, TiVonage doesn't work with a series1.

I suspect I will get an HD TV someday (though it could be a few years away) and upgrade to a series3 then. Hopefully, Tivo will still allow me transfer my lifetime subscription then.

Thanks for the reply.

-Lloyd

[DougF]

You can listen to MP3s with a Series 1 TiVo, but it doesn't work very well. I tried it a few years ago. I don't remember the name of the program, but if you search through the archives here you should be able to find it. There were two or three different ones that I tried. It's not worth the effort, though. The Series 1 boxes just don't have the horsepower to play them very well.

As for viewing pictures, I believe that is possible as well. TiVo Control Station used a JPEG writer to display JPEG maps from weather.com. I would guess at that at some point someone wrote something to allow you to view your own images. It's probably something you'd have to search the archive sites for.

[lloydjs]

litzdogg911,

you can use jpegwriter to display jpegs on a series 1, however you have to modify the manipulate the jpeg slightly to make it compatible.
check out the link:
http://www.allaboutjake.com/tivo/jpegwriter/