Argh!

[denny]

My bloody iRiver is broken again. Less disconcertingly fatal this time, but definitely a 'send it back' problem this time instead of a 'wtf?' problem. The headphone socket is dodgy, and now the unit only plays back in one headphone, at reduced volume, until you push the headphone jack to one side with your thumb to make the contact work properly. This isn't a viable way to walk down the street, and certainly isn't acceptable from a month-old £280 toy, so back it goes. *goes to talk to boss about returning xmas present*

Comments

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Meep, and I was just thinking of buying one...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

In their defence, two of my colleagues have them, one has had hers for over a year now, and they're both fine. I think I just got unlucky. There's also some evidence that the weird fatal death last week was caused by a weirdly corrupted mp3, although it's still pretty shoddy for a data file of any description to cause an apparent firmware failure.

< slight tangent on corrupted mp3 >

[djlongfella.livejournal.com]

A client of mine bought the latest all singing all dancing denon twin minidisk player from me to add to his very impressive " home " set up. this is going back to when only the loaded amongst us had minidisk and a twein one with all the pro features installed in a home rack was certainly the jewel in the crown...

Ok moves on...6 months down the line it starts playing up.
Will record track ( s ) but when in playback would only play 1Min 13Secs of music then go into standby mode.

Discs would sometimes play or not randomly in his other playback machine.

Off to Haden labs was me, to get this very expensive bit of kit sorted, and to have a rather large shout at the geek types at Hayden labs.

Turns out a Mini disk that had been on a recent magazine cover that I knew he subscribed to had a bad file cade or something and had got rooted fimrly in the hardware , they " flashed " the system told me to destroy the disk in question, and hapily at no charge to me " Phew " I return the player....

eight weeks on, and * bingo * it all starts again, back to Hayden Laboritories to see the guys in white coats...

turns out he had inadvertantly played one of the mini disks that were recorded while his machine was corrupted, this had again, " installed " the error, so, a system " re flash " a hundred or so minidisks in the bin, and a year or two on the unit still works well...thought it bore some relevance to your firmware comment...

Re: < slight tangent on corrupted mp3 >

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is interesting...