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jvhc:
Hi

Recently I added Illinois by Sufjan Stevens to my gigabeat.

It played fine until recently, when it loads the song, but gets stuck on 0:00 and doesn't start playing. I can fast foward into anywhere in the song, but it still doesn't play.

I haven't noticed this hapenning with any other files yet, and i'm wondering whether it's because the file names are so long.

E.g:

"They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!"

They're not all this long, but they're longer than most song titles.

I've tried deleting the folder and transfering it across to the gigabeat again, but it doesn't make any difference.

It's only certain songs that don't play, half of the songs play fine.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

soap:
FAT32 has a path limit of 255 characters.  This is including directory names, file name, and extension.
Some programs seem to have an almost magical ability to break this, and create files which break the limit, and are unusable by any other program.
Perhaps this is your problem?

jvhc:
hmm I don't think it's that, cos they're not as long as 255 characters..

I don't know why, it just doesn't like anything by Sufjan Stevens  :-\

I just ripped the cd again in different settings and file names but it still won't play..

saratoga:
How did you rip them?

jvhc:
Ahhhh I think i've sorted it now.

I ripped them using Windows media player.

I think it was because I had 'cache disk' on. As soon as I turned it off they worked. I also shortened the file names loads just in case.

Hmm, any idea why cache disk had that effect?!

Thanks!

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