I don't know about 256s in an X5ii, but 200s in an X5i work beautifully.  And 200s are half the price of 256s.... 

I finally had a dropout-free day with my pre-Deoxit 900s.  The corrosion had been getting worse and worse, especially on the right.  Yesterday the right was driving me mad on my daily bike ride - I finally gave up and rode sans music.  Today, I hit my 900s with some WD40 connection cleaner and a...

My beloved Michell Gyrodec w/ RB300 and Benz H20  

'fraid so...  BikeActive did a great job of getting me my frame though.  Any reason that route won't work for you?

The 2002 I bought with, the 2013 I bought frame-only via http://www.bikeactive.com in the UK. 

I'm loving this winter...   Me and my two Oranges (a 2002 Patriot, and a 2013 Five) in Cunningham Park, Queens.    

At the risk of being a pedant, the equalizer also works for 48kHz

It was a pain, but that's what I did.

Large playlists are a problem.  I have a playlist of all 6000+ tracks on my X5 (no, I don't know why either), and it takes two and a half minutes to open.

  Snap.

  I just tested and mine does exactly the same.   I don't think you have a defective player - you just found a firmware bug.  A pretty harmless bug, but a bug all the same.

  That's some sweet gear...  But can you dance to it? ;)

Nowhere near as impressive as some, but I'm more than happy with it (for now!)   FiiO X5 Ultimate Ears UE900 with FiiO cable & frankenstein tips made up of the wax-guard cores from Comply TX-200 plus orange triple flanges that came with MEElectronics Sport-Fi M6 (the MEElectronics are on...

Today I'm happy that I finally got round to tidying up my music folder!!   But it would be nice if it were fixed in a future firmware update - I shouldn't really have to rename the following just so it'll fit in a playlist:    Music/G/Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five/320/The Adventures...

My collection wasn't too bad - just a smattering of French and German characters that I had to Anglicize.  The bigger problem for me was the length issue - I went through a phase of including artist and album name in all my filenames, so I had to strip them all out...