the music files apear 4-6 times when I browse the song list in the Music tab

[beep_dave_1d]

I have a Sansa View 8gb w 16Gb sdhc in MicroSD
w latest firmware

and all the music files apear 4-6 times when I browse the song list in the Music tab using Sansa lates firmware

I think maybe the Song Database is corrupted or mucked up...
How can I reinitialise the Database without formatting or in any way deleting the Music files?

wish I could put Rockbox on this...

Please advise
TIA
Dave

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[WalkGood]

You could try CHKDSK, error-checking but if that doesn't help, either you have to format or re-firmware or both. If so, you will lose all the music, don’t you have tunes backed up? Also are your tags correct, this should avoid duplicates in the future.

[Krack_baby]

Its the expansion card. I gave up on using the expansion card due to the duplicate problem. Without the card, no problem.

I'm not sure I will ever buy another sansa because of my View experience. The player has so much potential if they'd just make a few firmware fixes.

[WalkGood]

Originally Posted by Krack_baby

Its the expansion card. I gave up on using the expansion card due to the duplicate problem. Without the card, no problem.

I'm not sure I will ever buy another sansa because of my View experience. The player has so much potential if they'd just make a few firmware fixes.

- Try the panasonic formatter on the card
- Don't rule out other sansa's cause of one bad exp. The Clip and Fuze rock!
- Not much potential in a player that seemed doomed from the start, no wonder it's been discontinued, but this is only my opinion

[Krack_baby]

- I could try the Panasonic formatter. Thank you for the idea. I might. But I've had enough grief from the microsd cards for now. I've tried it with several microsd cards. It might be a formatting issue but it really feels like a firmware problem. I'm not wasting much more time. I bought this player to entertain me not as a personal time consumer.

- I had an e200. I loved it and still love it but it is my wife's now. This is not just one bad experience it is several years seeing Sansa go from being a company that tried with the e200 to a company that says "screw you" to View users.

- We bought their "flagship" and they are burning us. I am sure the other models rock but with a few firmware fixes the View could rock as well.

This loyal customer (2 e200s and 1 View) is now looking elsewhere for his next player.

[NTolerance]

There's a simple workaround for this problem:

http://www.anythingbutipod.com/forum...ad.php?t=39363

[Krack_baby]

nice, i will try the workaround. thanks much.

i still think sandisk has let us down.