Just wanted to share my own experience and get some answers…
When I just received my Sansa Clip+ I ripped one of my cds and put it in… all perfect. It came with the 01.02.15 firmware, and then, the same day I updated the 01.02.18 firmware manually. All i listen is FLAC, so I continue to rip my cds using EAC for perfect tagging. Suddenly the sansa got frozen at track 5 on one of the albums, and after experimenting with different rip methods just the untagged rips were rid of this problem. Some more albums with all their tags continued to frozen at track 5 or 6, always those at those numbers.
Yesterday, tired of it, I downgraded the Sansa to 01.02.15, and then listen to a copule of those same troubled albums and NO FROZEN SANSA… it flowed perfectly. So I was thinking what did I do wrong???
then I remembered that when I first updated the firmware manually on my PC I didn´t know about the USB mode, it was on AUTO and used the MTP mode without knowing. This time I used the MSC mode, and well, it seem all perfect now… So… were the 01.02.18 firmware not updated correctly?? was that the reason I was having those issues??? If I updated to 01.02.18 again, using MSC this time, will I have those same issues again???
It was not the USB MODE. It was the 01.02.18 firmware itself. It has problems with FLAC files on tagged albums. The curious thing is that the problem is either with track 5 or 6. When one of those tracks ends, the Sansa player freezes or reboot itself.
I re upgraded the unit to 01.02.18 firmware and presented the probem again, then I downgraded to 01.02.15 again and no problem, then upgraded to 01.02.16 and no problem.
Its the 01.02.18 firmware. Or maybe my unit has problems with that firmware.
PD: one thing got my attention: with the . 15 and . 16 firmwares, the sansa does not freez, but there is one “click” sound at the end of either one of those same troubled tracks (5 and 6 track of the albums) that caused the sansa to frozen on the 01.02.18 firmware.
That’s odd. Is it possible to you to upload a couple samples of the ‘problem’ FLAC files to a file-hosting site and provide a link to them here? This is something the SanDisk dev. team would probably want to check out. If there is in fact an issue with the latest firmware, they would want to fix it with an update.
Others can also download and test the files in their machines and report their experiences here.
Thank you Oscarilbo, I had a similar problem, and I too have found just now that the downgrade to 01.02.16 seems to have made the problem go away. Much appreciated!
