The 200 song ceiling is due to a hardware limitation in the newer processor SanDisk is using now. SanDisk did not (and still doesn’t) manufature the processing unit, and the older one was discontinued by the manufacturer.
SanDisk tried upping the song limit (and succeeded through a beta firmware update), but had to severly cripple, or drop other features in order to do it so the decision was made to leave it the way it was.
