Hi there: earlier reviews mention problems with USB playback. Are these issues fixed now (Dec. 2014) please ?
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no, I am amazed how different flash drives make difference. never heard back from sangean customer service. it is cheap radio, cheap usb...not worth the time, trouble I put into trying to figure out. I would avoid this radio...some sandisk flash ok, adapter other flashes seem to work. still radio bad idea.
800367
I have had my radio for over a year now. I had problems the first time I tried to play music from a USB flash drive. I tried another drive and it worked fine. I have no idea why the first one didn't work but formatted the second one and it worker perfectly.
800368
I have trouble with some drives (Schoche 4GB, a very nicely short plug), but most others (that are long and stick up, easily to be damaged) seem to work fine.
227913
I don't think there's a way to stream video from a computer; pretty sure I have heard that from several sources, including the manual. The player just doesn't have software to do that. It seems (for video playback) to require discs that are finalized in DVD, BD or 'avchd' video format; it won't even play videos off the USB drive, which I'm rather disappointed about.
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Mine works okay though the sound quality isn't very good. I had trouble with a flash drive that developed the problem of not being recognized by any of my computers. Found no remedy for it and the company would not replace it. Disgusting turn of affairs. Hope you have better luck. F. Burton
1200056
There only certain formats that work when I use my USB harddraive to play movies. Try converting to from MP4 to AVI.
526261
There are some definite problems with the video operations of the docking station (see ratings), but this is the first time I've heard that the audio doesn't work. I bought mine through Amazon and am one of the reviewers with a video problem. I'm simply returning it to Amazon for a replacement. Suggest you do the same.
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I've played many moves on it but perhaps they've all been regular DVD. I know I've successfully burned many BluRays (for iTunes sharing to Apple TV, which is the primary reason I bought it) but when I just tried to play a BluRay on the computer (VLC Media Player installed Win8 Bootcamp on Mac Mini hardware) I got an error, so maybe there is an issue playing BluRays. I'll mess around with it and see if I can get it to work and let you know.
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To Camilla: I also noticed when I push the play/pause button it shows "no usb". So I push the play/pause button again and the same thing happens. Then I pushed the Mode button that didn't seem to help either. I also noticed it does not respond immediately when you press any button. When I open and close the CD holder it goes back to square one. So now I just keep pushing the play/pause button and sometimes it responds. I don't like this at all. When you read the instructions they are very confusing. I am thinking about returning mine. Hope this helps you decide if you want to keep it.
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I run Linux on my PC, so I can't address the Windows issue. And I don't think I even used the USB interface at all ... I just used the "line-level" output, and plugged that directly into my PC's sound card, and that worked perfectly.
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I bought 2 from a car stereo store and tried to play videos from both. When it didn't work I did some research and learned they will only show pictures from the SD and USB. huge bummer. manual says: USB supports: MP3 and JPEG files only and will NOT support: BMP, M4P, WAV, ASF, H.264, DivX, WMA.
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USB/SD card playback of mp3 and Jpeg files.That is directly from the description. It doesn't play back movies from the USB or card slot, only music (MP3) and picture (jpeg) files can be loaded from the card slot/USB port. There are much better options then this cheap player (3 month warranty) for just a little more money. Check out TView.I did try using a popular video converter (used MPEG4) to put a movie on a card just to see if it would work, it did not.
2167900
I am happy with my Creative system. It plays to my satisfaction with no issues. I think it also depends on certain downloads you may have; say on your IPOD. If they aren't the best quality & sound fuzzy, they can also playback with the same results. Having said that, I think for the money they are great. Hope this helps!
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same problam. no solution. even no replay from sandiskLook like that is a fatal bug in Sansa. If file transfer disturb in the middle (USB cable disconnect, etc..) that create corrupted files in the memory and player could not recognize those files. (very common thing with any USB device). But this player instead of skipping the file, keep on loop over same function.This product must recall.
920156
Sounds like Sam W J found yet another problem with this MP3 player. Both of mine failed and the USB was not disconnected. Also there was no way to tell if there was a 0 byte file on the player because the computer couldn't see the player.In the meantime I'm using my Creative Zen Nano Plus -- transfering old cassette tapes, Recording FM radio programs, as well as using it for all the features of the Sansa. It's menu is quite different but all in all it's a better player.
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DVD playback works for me. I am using Win7 and Windows Media Player. Have you tried a different DVD?
466709
right. i asked since i had read at least one comment which stated that the unit had troubles with standard cd's but not sacd or dvd-a. please let people know what you find once you get it.
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To further my non answer: During the limited time the unit was operational, I did not use the USB input, only HDMI. It seemed to have no problem with that input. Now I know why it was a "limited" edition.
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Hi there K.........how did this unit turn out for you? I've had mine for a couple of years so far, and it plays DVD's great. I gave up on learning how to copy a tape to a disk, but that is the one feature I needed to rid myself of boxes of old VCR tapes. (See my posts dated 2/21/10.) James says I need a tuner, however the inst. book does not mention that. Thanks for the help, Jeanette