gerry_rg47

My NW-A1000 also hung just displaying the spinning CD. This happened after I started the player and just after downloading a some files from SonicStage 3.3. The keys on the player did not respond and there was no error message. The player could be reset with a paper clip and then play files but it would hang again with the spinning CD on start up after shut down. Here's what I did to recover: reset the player using a paper clip reconnect the player to the PC and run SonicStage check that SS can see the player. In my case SS could list the files on the player when the player is idle (not show Connecting...) disconnect it from the PC now the player should be running - do not shut down! on the player go to Home/Settings/Initalize Disk and select Yes once the disk is initialized reconnect the player to the PC ensure your SS library files are intact - in my case I restored then from my backup library download the files you want on the player from the library This worked for me. After the above actions my NW-A1000 player has been fine. I don't know what caused the problem but it appears I downloaded some corrupted files to the player.

Yep, thanks, it now works for me too. Fat fingers....

Like a few posters I cannot get my NW into Test Mode - so I can't get to the SP setting. I'm wondering if using Sonicstage instead of Connect Player could be the reason. I say that because the Link funciton is disabled when you download to an NW series from Sonicstage, and pushing the Link button is one of the keystrokes needed to access Test Mode.