Mp3

[Just_starting]

I am losing patience with the MP3 cababilty of the ique, or should I say the lack of ability it has in playing MP3's.

I have all but given up using garmins MP3 player, and started using pocket tunes last night....it is not much better...

There is some wierd stuff going on, songs that play 50% of the way through on the garmin player fine then crash, sound like they are in slow motion in the pocket tunes player? As for pocket tunes, it might crash less than gamins player but I have yet to play more than 3 songs with out it crashing.

For those who indicated they havent had very many problems playing music how you are you saving your MP3's. I am using the format: Layer 3, Joint stereo, 44100 hz, 128 kb/s. Is there a better format to use.

I am wondering if it is more than just software glitches I am having, and should I be sending back my unit to garmin due to hardware problem. I know it is not an SD card problem, I have tried multiple cards and I have the same problem.

Thanks in advance!

[TKinNY]

Join the club.

It's not something you're doing. There's a problem with the software/hardware.

Don't send your iQue back just yet, you'll just get another one with the same problem.

There will probably be a fix in the near future.

[Bugwart]

I would expect Garmin to bring out a software update to fix this problem.

When I got my Sony Clie NR70-U last year, it crashed or locked up when playing MP3s. After the crash, the Clie could not find the memory stick. Sometimes the crash would be when I tried to select a specific MP3 and sometimes it would get part way through before crashing. It sounds similar to the problem that you are describing.

The update came out several months after the NR70 hit the stores. The update fixed the MS problem, but MP3s still have problems.

Some MP3s will play fine on my computer, but the Clie refuses to play them. Others play with no problem. I made MP3s from my own (purchased) CDs and the Clie will not play some of them, but it will play others.

What I am trying to explain is that your problems may be caused by some of the MP3s that you are trying to play, rather than by the player software or the iQUE. Even after the Clie update, it refused to play some MP3s, but it could at least find the memory stick.