NW-A3000 turned off between two songs

[Mr. Crowley]

Hi there!

My Sony NW-A3000 (Firmware 3) turned off between two Tracks, without me doing anything. Has anyone experienced similar problems? What is the cause for this?

Thanks for your help!

[kerfuffle]

Between two tracks? Did it turn off after the first track? That could be due to the play mode.

Or did it start playing the second track, then suddenly went silent? That happened to me a number of times as the track had a system error. If that's the case, then transfer the offending track again, and see if it works.

Have you tried playing those two tracks again?

[Mr. Crowley]

Here is what i did: I chose a Album and went to Track 4. After listening a few seconds I decided to listen all the tracks an pushed the <--Button till I reached Track 1. After the 3 first Tracks it turned off. I'm actually not sure if it really turned off, or if it was just paused. I pressed play and it went on with the next Track. (It happened right after the track was finished.)

[kerfuffle]

I think it's your Play Mode. It must have been set at a mode.

Did you (or someone else) set the play mode to something other than normal?

Can't be a track/system error, as you were able to play Track 4 before playing Tracks 1-3.

[Mr. Crowley]

I think it's your Play Mode. It must have been set at a mode.

Did you (or someone else) set the play mode to something other than normal?

Can't be a track/system error, as you were able to play Track 4 before playing Tracks 1-3.

I checked... it was "Normal-Mode"

Thx

[rtn]

I had this problem a few times.

I dont know why it happens, i just turn it on again........

[chriswyatt]

I've also had this problem. I reckon reinitialising and transferring could fix that, I did that and didn't have a track-skipping problem since.

[aznbro85]

I think it's one of the "abnormalities" of the NW-A3000/A1200/A1000

I have two A3000's and one A1200, and this happens for me as well.

I think it has to do with how it plays.

With my other HD Walkmans, the HD1 and HD5, after it was done playing one "group", it goes onto the next group.

Since my groups were albums, it went album after album until i pressed stop (or the battery drained )

With the NW-A series of HDs, I found that where you started is the "end" point as well.

For example: If you were listening to a group with 10 tracks, and stopped at track 5, when you turned on the player, it'll start at track 5, finish with track 10, START OVER at 1 and finally end at 5.

So I guess since you "started" at 4, then backtracked, it thought that it was supposed to stop after playing track 3?

I don't know, but that's my experience with the Axxx series of HD Network Walkmans

[Coolhellfire]

Here is what i did: I chose a Album and went to Track 4. After listening a few seconds I decided to listen all the tracks an pushed the <--Button till I reached Track 1. After the 3 first Tracks it turned off. I'm actually not sure if it really turned off, or if it was just paused. I pressed play and it went on with the next Track. (It happened right after the track was finished.)

The same problem. I noticed it when i were testing the gapless capacity; not only occurs with continuous tracks but with all. The player pauses and then turns off...

At the beginning I were very disappointed but with my normal use of the player i have not had problems...

Regards.

[b0ng0]

This has happened to me, but I think aznbro's explanation is correct. There's no bug or fault with the player or firmware, it's just the way it has been programmed to resume playback when your player is turned off mid-song.

I think....

[aznbro85]

I was speaking out of my arse when I had posted, but after i posted, i wanted to make sure that I wasn't tripping so I tried it out on my players.

I searched through a folder and pressed play on track 3. After listening to it for 10 seconds, I pressed < to go all the way back to track 1. I let it play on it's own, using the play mode of "normal". After it finished track two, it showed as pause. [if it's at pause for a long period of time, it powers down itself. Pressing play will resume playback]

I tried it on my USA bought A1200(firmware 3.0), my HK NW-A3000 (firmware 2.0), and my JP NW-A3000 (firmware 3.0), and they all present this "problem"

I guess it makes sense, since most people start on track 1, so after it goes through the whole album, it'll just go back to track where it started (track 1).

I wished the A3000/A1xxx series HD players would be like the HD1/HD3/HD5 where after it finishes one folder it'll start on the next. At first this little "feature" annoyed me, but I got used to it.

I guess it gave me reason to take my player out and admire at all its glory

[granbajo]

I wished the A3000/A1xxx series HD players would be like the HD1/HD3/HD5 where after it finishes one folder it'll start on the next. At first this little "feature" annoyed me, but I got used to it.

I guess it gave me reason to take my player out and admire at all its glory

It is not quite the same... but you can do something similar... for instance, if you want to listen to all of the songs for a particular artist, you find them and then click on "Option" and then select play from the menu... this is effectively the same as choosing the All Artist X from once you go to a particular artis.

You can do this for any type of grouping, Artists, Genre, etc... I find it useful in particular for the recent transfers... that way I can click on it and listen to all the stuff that I have just transfered in one go.

[aznbro85]

It is not quite the same... but you can do something similar... for instance, if you want to listen to all of the songs for a particular artist, you find them and then click on "Option" and then select play from the menu... this is effectively the same as choosing the All Artist X from once you go to a particular artis.

You can do this for any type of grouping, Artists, Genre, etc... I find it useful in particular for the recent transfers... that way I can click on it and listen to all the stuff that I have just transfered in one go.

Hey granbajo,

Thanks for the heads up. I've tried that function before, and yeah, it's not the same.. hehe

but it does the job when i want to listen to all the tracks from one artist and stuff.

Sometimes i just like more variety.. like how if you have a 100disc cd-changer, after it finishes one, it'll go to the next, it might be the same artist, it might not.

thanks again for the little tip though!