i have a black 1gb acoustic solutions mp3 player but its stop working for some reason when i put it on the acoustic solutions logo and the blue light comes on and i cant do any other thing and non of the buttons work

mabel, September 2007

Format your mp3 player

Arshad, June 2009

goverment report on these, highly dangerous!
nah only joking if their was a report on them they'd be highly sh*t. formatting a good idea, but lose all songs. and when mines breaking once a week it just aint worth it nemore.
get rid of it!

Acoustic MP3 No.1 Fan, March 2009

To fix this, you'll need to connect it to a Windows PC using the USB cable and format it. (I tried with Ubuntu Linux but it failed). My player showed up as the E:\ drive so I ran "format e:" from a command prompt. (It would not format from windows explorer). Once format is complete, the unit will work but all music will have to be reloaded.

Best wishes,

COTM

Child Of The Mist, January 2009

Gosh, the same has happened to me and it is extremely annoying, how do I change it to FAT format, like you are saying?

Emma, January 2009

my friend bought 2 of these for her children. one started behaving badly (skipping through songs) within a few days. she took it back to argos only to be told they are not in stock any more ( even though it is listed in the new catalogue) and she could only have a credit note for the sale price. half what she payed for it.
a week later the other did the same so i took it and formatted it no problem in windows. no special program needed. it's working fine for the time being but there is obviously a design fault with this product. i have tried to contact the company via there website but it appears to be down at the minute.
when i do get in touch with them i will have several rather impolite words for them if they refuse to do anything about it.
i'll keep you posted.
if anyone else has any luck, i'd be interested to know.

ladydazed, January 2009

i have a black 1gb acoustic solutions mp3 player but its stop working for some reason when i put it on the acoustic solutions logo and the blue light comes on and i cant do any other thing and non of the buttons work

juned bahroz, December 2008

Using Vista - reformat Fat(Default) Quick - works OK now.

Steeton MVP, October 2008

i have a 1gb pink one, dont know what specific model it is, but all of a sudden my computer doesnt recognise it and when i try and play the thing, it skips certain songs and cuts off on others that are half way through and also skips through some others really quickly, like wen you play a cd and want to skip ahead!!! it worked fine until today and i ve had it a year!!! grrr!!! now i ll have to buy a new one!!! i would suggest to just get a new one. i would rather do that than do lots of techno stuff really!

sarah, September 2008

I also have the 1GB splash proof version of this and when I switch it on it starts playing a song then half way through it will turn its self off, I've changed the battery and then it will play for my journey into work about 15mins and then I'll turn it off and when I turn it back on for my journey home it will then turn its self of again after less than a minute, but then I won't be able to turn it on again unless I take the battery out and then put it back in again but then it will just turn its self off again after less than a minute and so on and so on.

DANNY C, September 2008

My friend had the same problem.... the songs started not playing although some would (Very strange) so i said that i would look into it for her...

I pluged it into the laptop to be told that it was unreadable so i though i would format(I formated it in FAT32) it which made it work in the fact that i could add the files from the pc to it and it was all fine until i tried to play it and was told no files... Grr...

reading a few comments here made want to try just a quick format in standard FAT and not... i repeat not FAT32.... copied one file across so i could see if that did the trick which it did!

Yep that is how it worked for me format in plain old FAT...

hope that helps people

Beholder Uk, August 2008

just change it to fat data system and it will be allrigt ;)

Odie, August 2008

how cn format ma mp3 player

batmn, August 2008

you have to update it but the only problem is that there is no update which is usless.

Tukku, May 2008

hi guys after reading your problems like mine i download a free program called Kill Disk Suite free just google it i ran a once error pass and after that i was able to reformat into Fat / Fat32 allso they is another tool that you can use to format after you have used kill disk its called HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool this is a handy tool hope my answer fixes your Acoustic Solutions MP3 Player like i did thankyou again for the posts as it never would of clicked what to use
thanks jay :D

jay123_2, January 2008

and me too friends i have the same problem it doesn't work and it doesn't want to format i don't know what is the reason plez anyone help me

192.168.2.1, December 2007

and me too friends i have the same problem it doesn't work and it doesn't want to format i don't know what is the reason plez anyone help me

192.168.2.1, December 2007

ur player is then coruped SORRY try formating it as FAT or FAT32 not non other as this will turn the player into a flash memory stick. if it is formated as that reformat it as FAT of FAT 32


hope that helps

damian brown, October 2007

Sorry Mabel, guess what? I have a 512MB version of the splashproof player which has gone a similar way. I cannot read/write to PC and the player says there are no files and no internal memory. I still have the receipt so it's back to Argos for a refund.

Michael, September 2007

the same thing happened to mine it was working the finest till i plugged it in yesterday my pc wont reconise it it wont switch off or on it said on pc that storage device is corrupt or unreadable no idea what caused it sorry

simon, September 2007