Why Tracks don't play: problem + solution

[JSP62]

Please review this post prior to reading any further.

http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1534

It is an explaination as to what had happened to my DAP that would not play tracks / freeze the unit.

THIS POST IS FOR THOSE WHO ARE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM ALONG WITH SOLUTIONS.

The solution was solved by private messages between me and OTIASJ:

(NOTE: OTIASJ is the person working on a WINAMP plug-in to play/read Sony devices with ATRAC.)

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Ok I see what's the problem,

I had it 2 days ago on my 512mb key

Ml_sony did not do that I think it's a bug in the player when generating the library.

Ok now the problem :

Some files are created by the pc application, then you unplug the player and the player itself generate the rest of the files, so that it can use them correctly.

The problem you have is that those files are corrupted, So sonicstage see his files properly but your player see a bugged database -> you can't see them...

Now the solution! :

1) make sure you have a backup of your OMGAUDIO directory !

(because you could lose everything again)

2) first solution : go to your OMGAUDIO dir and sort the files by date.

You should see some files are correctly dated and others have a strange old date like 2000/01/01 or something like that.

Delete the files with the old date (those files are generated by the player)

Then just unplug your player and let it regenerate the database.

Hopefully it will work...

If not you can try last solution :

3) you need to have GYM installed correctly on your device with the encodekey.dat in the GYM directory.

Or,

MP3FM correctly installed with a DvId.dat in MP3FM directory.

Now, delete all DAT files EXCEPT the 04CNTINF.DAT file

Unplug the player and see....

If it does not solve your problem you still have a backup of your DAT files so you can just put them back in your OMGAUDIO directory,

But if that doesn't work I don't have any other solution than reset and resend....

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MUCH THANKS TO OTIASJ

Edited April 24, 2006 by JSP62