Connect player corrupt file

[Julian]

Hi I bought a A3000 from Amazon for £158 which arrived Friday, I installed the Connect software updated to v11170 and started, to rip my CD collection. First impressions were it was slow compared with iTunes which my daughter uses but other than that it didn’t seem as bad as people made out … until last night! Having imported about 1200 tracks I noticed it kept saying “do not disconnect” I then had an error message come up “the file or directory \omgaudio\08edtern.dat is corrupt. When I did disconnect the player had no database. The corrupt file is on the player so I reinitialised the drive now I keep getting tinyhttp.exe has to shut down errors. Anyone had a similar problem …….. and how do you contact Sony by phone

[Ascariss]

It always says do not disconnect when transferring files, not sure why a person would even disconnect it in the first place.

Hmm, have you tried resetting the player? there is small pin sized button at the bottom of the player, press it. It won't delete any of the music files on there if you have any on there.

Can you open and run the connect player with no problems? After resetting the player, reconnect it to the PC again and see if it does the same thing again.

If it does do the same thing again, then perhaps there is something wrong with the player, or you just found another bug in the Connect player. Is there no support number in the manual pertaining to problems for the UK?

As for ripping tracks, what settings do you have it at? I have it at 192kbps mp3 and it does take a bit long, but not that horribly long. I used to rip my files via sonic foundry into waves and then convert to mp3 via lame, but it took longer than CP doing it directly.

Edit, as well although some people know this while others do not, it is best to reinitialize the drive before transferring any files onto it. So once you open the box, test it out, before moving files onto it, erase the data on there.

I forgot to do this with my A3000, and I had problems with music transferring onto it, but I did erase all the info on my A1000 before transfer and had no probplems.

As well, if your PC crashes while transferring or CP crashes during transfer, just unplug the player, and restart the pc. It may try to create a library on the player, but that may fail, note the files are still on there, but the player needs to be reconnected to the CP and then disconnected and the library will rebuild itself with no problems.