The Philips MP3 players use SQLite version 2.x. You probably downloaded version 3.x. Version 3.x will not read or write version 2.x database files. Try using version 2.8.16 instead of whatever version it is you downloaded.
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 12:08 +0200, Karl Sinn wrote: > Hi, > > I am completely new with SQLite. My friend has a mp3-Player (I think it was a > Phillips iPod like device) and asked me if I can put him some music on. > Unfortunately I discovered, that you can do it only with the Windows-Program > belonging to the device, because they have a database-file in which they > write all the information about the musicfiles stored on it. > > Curious, I looked inside the the databasefile with an editor an I found that > line: > ** This file contains an SQLite 2.1 database ** > > So I downloaded the file on my Linux-computer. > > Today I downloaded SQLite and I tried to open the file with the > commandline-tool. > > When I do .tables or .databases I get this error: > Error: file is encrypted or is not a database > > I searched the mailing-list -archive, but did not find any hint. > What is the problem? > May it be that I copied the file from the device to my computer? > > Thanks for any hint > Karl Sinn >
