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Posted on Dec 28, 2007

Data Refresh hi, I just got a new sansa e280 and started putting music on it. I put some stuff on it, then disconnected it to see its all going good, it was. anyways i put about 700 mb on it and disconnected it and it does the data refresh and just freezes near the end, i took some music off and then all of a sudden it showed no music, so i got rid of what I'd put on it and tried again. At some point near the 700mb mark it just freezes after putting any amount of music on it at the data refresh point. I've tried putting just 1 album at a time, still happens, ive even tried song by song. Is this fixable or should I return it?

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Anonymous

The simple answer is to edit the genre data of your hard rock songs from "Hard Rock" to "HardRock" (remove the space). This sounds stupid but it causes the e280 to freeze during the refresh database phase after writing songs to the device.

I've also noticed that some genres are renamed from what they actually are. Soul, for example, shows up as Punk in the genre list of the e280. Southern Rock displays as Comedy. Mine has version 3.01.11 firmware. I renamed "Soul" to "Soul-" to get rid of the Punk tag, and "Southern Rock" to "SouthernRock" to get rid of the Comedy tag. "Ballad" shows up as "unknown" so I change it to "SoftRock" to solve that issue.

I haven't tried other genres so if you don't have any hard rock songs on your player, try renaming the genres tags to something else to see if it solves your problem.

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