Problems with the NW-HD5

[Tiesto]

My HD5 gave me a pretty good scare last night. I changed the album name of a couple of tracks in the player, when I tried to listen them they were nothing but a short noise so I had to come back to the computer to fix them, I deleted them from the player and put them back once again, but this time was even worse, I played back one of those tracks with the battery full charged and a few seconds afterwards the HD5 turned off by itself, WTF!... then I turned on the player and everything got normal so far at least. I dont even want to think that I got a buggy HD5 and those ghost tracks, what's the deal with them? is it a f/w or s/w issue? what about the sudden turn off that I experienced, anyone knows anything?

[Guest Stuge]

Just Think that it was just a bad Dream(A hOrror One ) & nothing else but if your player again turns off (By it self ) then I will advice you to seek some help from Sony .

[Tiesto]

I hope it doesnt happen again but I'll report back if I may figure out the cause.

[mercury_in_flames]

damn dude, that is weird. any chance of it just being a dud mp3 and causing the hd5 to malfunction? or even a glitchy atrac?

[Tiesto]

Well I wouldnt blame the atrac files because they were transferred to minidisc and there wasnt any problem. I would dare to say that the ghost tracks are caused by how the HD5 recognizes a new transfer, maybe it makes a list of the transferred tracks but the player (or SS) doesnt update it when a track is edited in the player, therefore when I wanted to playback that particular track the HD5 f/w does not recognize it. However this doesnt explain the sudden turn off, Im still looking into it, I wont rush it though.

Edited January 16, 2006 by Tiesto