About 3-4 months ago I purchased a 1 gb philips memory stick / mp3 player. Initially I was really pleased with it but then a few weeks after purchasing it, the mp3 player froze when I tried powering it on. No matter what I tried I couldn't get it to start. So, I took it back and got it replaced.
Since then, there have been a few more things I've started noticing that have been getting frustrating - its takes a hell of a long time to boot up, there are little clickey sounds when I perform operations like moving to the next track, when counting files it gets all muddled up, e.g. say if there are 15 tracks and you select 'next' to move from track 15 back to track 1, then it calls it track 16, the next 17, etc. Now, again I've got some sort of file error (somehow the file system has ended up recursive). I was in the process of deleting some files off it, when the delete operation froze. Now, I can't power up the mp3 player, nor can I figure out how to delete the files that are on there. I don't know much about software on these sorts of things, but wondering if the problems I'm having are related to the software not struggling to interact with Ubuntu Linux. If I reformat the memory stick I guess I'd lose the mp3 playing software. Should I just go back and complain about the above issues, see if I can get refunded and buy a better quality product. Or, can I reformat and replace the firmware? Anyone had any experience with software on these types of devices or have suggestions on what I could do? Cheers Matt
