Updating Artist Rating Issue

[rocketor]

Hi all !

I am using a 1000 series walkman untill now i was realy pleased with it, great sound great look easy to use.

But resently im getting trouble with song transfer.

I am using sonicstage 4 for about 2 month and had no problems with it. But now when im connecting the walkman to pc , sonic stage recognizes it and then it says "Updating Artist rating" then when it get to 74% its getting stuck.

So when its not responding im rebooting the SS4 an disconnecting the plsyer. when im torning on the player it says i have no songs on it( they all disapier!!!!!) when im connecting tha player again its updating the devise data base

and than i got error: "[ that my data base is not updated and ss4 cannot update it and asking me to recconect the player or disable the speasial futers on the devise)

I i had tried everything but the only way is to format the player and then to coppy all the music again.

i cant format it every time i want to add a song on it .

plz need your help.

[Jim]

Rocketor: How long do you wait for it to finish updating Artist rating? I find that mine seems to stop at about 85% when updating artist link information (is this what you mean?) but it eventually completes about 5-10 minutes later. I find this slowness frustrating and hope that it is fixed in 4.1 (if they even know about it) but perhaps if you are giving up after a minute, waiting for it to complete could be faster than reformating it every time.

[Guest Stuge]

I 'm not sure whether this will help or not ,but try defragmentation method .

[JSP62]

I am willing to put some money down that your database is all messed up. You can try to recover it, but it is best to start from scratch. I know you don't want to hear it, but your out of luck.

Moving forward, you will need to dicipline yourself on how you treat your player. You can take steps to ensure that if this happens again you can recover quickly. Do a search in the forums, this topic has been covered more than enough times.

Good Luck

[rocketor]

Ok i will try to defrag but not sure if it will help my devise is preaty fast so i dont think i need it.

And JSP62 what do you mean by "dicipline yourself on how you treat your player"

believe me i treat it whery well but the only problem is the artist rating uptade when it get stuck , then it mess up my database.

I formated my player with the build in option in the player itself, and managed to transfer or my music and more back. But i dont realy wont to do it all overe again at next time when all i want is to add single song .

P.S

Do you think i should wait for ss4.1 or try to fix it now????

Can I dissable the artis rating feature so SS 4 will not update the rating each time i connect it?