Thnx a lot for your fast response I appreciate it. I was having the same prob with my MZ-E3 but formatting to sp worked out fine for both. Just having some fun blowing peoples minds with legacy technology at school most have never seen an MD player. I've been using them for years and find it hard to believe it never got big, even with sonicstage, because now we have itunes and everyone digs that crap. All the mp3 players sound god awful in comparison, especially when I throw a little morphine on sp in my NH1. Gonna grab the M200 this week, god its beautiful I want to have it's children