Cowon Plenue D

[Vitor Valeri]

  connect your pd to your computer right click and press format. i formatted mine quite a number of times

 
When you formated the Plenue D, all folders appear like before?
 
What program to use to format? Or used the windows tool to format?
 
When you format, you copied the firmware file before ejecting the player to boot?
 
Sorry for asking so many questions, but I want to know in detail how the formatting process Plenue D. I'm afraid something bad happens ...

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

   
When you formated the Plenue D, all folders appear like before?
 
What program to use to format? Or used the windows tool to format?
 
When you format, you copied the firmware file before ejecting the player to boot?
 
Sorry for asking so many questions, but I want to know in detail how the formatting process Plenue D. I'm afraid something bad happens ...

OMG do not Format the name Plenue D drive >X: whatever drive appears! You will erase the system files! Only format the SD card if it's inserted into the D. You will know as it's names something other than Plenue D. 
 
If you have to delete music on the D, use the internal menu option to reset and worse case you can just delete all the music in the Music folder, but do not delete the folder just the audio files within it.

 

[audio123]

OMG do not Format the name Plenue D drive >X: whatever drive appears! You will erase the system files! Only format the SD card if it's inserted into the D. You will know as it's names something other than Plenue D. 

If you have to delete music on the D, use the internal menu option to reset and worse case you can just delete all the music in the Music folder, but do not delete the folder just the audio files within it.

a dude told me on this thread way back and it works for my case

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

a dude told me on this thread way back and it works for my case

Wow. The D must be creating the files again. There are system files on it. Maybe they are ROM based or something, pretty weird. I'm not willing to do it. LOL

 

[audio123]

Connect the player to pc.
Right click on plenue partition.
Right click and then left click on format.
If u have windows like me...

this is how u format
much thanks to this dude

 

 

[doeshongkong]

Hi
 
so the songs all in internal storage, 17gb of 32gb used and 4k tracks - so don't think it is track overload.  I suppose I don't have much option but to try deleting it all down and seeing if that helps. really worried this is not the problem though
 
thanks

 

[doeshongkong]

Anyone had any success getting any answers out of Cowon directly?

 

[splinky]

I just formatted my internal drive and everything when smoothly, Had not encountered any problems
 
I used guiformat since the internal drive is fat32. This will erase everything on the drive incl system files etc. I then paste the firmware 1.13 (which contains 2 files) onto the drive. Disconnect and reboot
 
It will then automatically reinstall all the default and system files
 
P.S.
I moved my music files to the sd card and removed it from the unit prior to reformatting the internal memory
 
When using the guiformat...dont change the the name on the volume label

 

[Hi-Fi'er]

  I just formatted my internal drive and everything when smoothly, Had not encountered any problems
 
I used guiformat since the internal drive is fat32. This will erase everything on the drive incl system files etc. I then paste the firmware 1.13 (which contains 2 files) onto the drive. Disconnect and reboot
 
It will then automatically reinstall all the default and system files
 
P.S.
I moved my music files to the sd card and removed it from the unit prior to reformatting the internal memory
 
When using the guiformat...dont change the the name on the volume label

The D is better designed than I thought.

 

[audio123]

  The D is better designed than I thought.

its just a factory reset basically

 

[HiFiChris]

 

I was guess how to connect into mojo

use mojo as an amp 3.5mm

 
 
@kimD and @audio123
 
Impossible, even with an adapter. The Plenue D does not have a digital audio output and the has no analogue inputs (only digital ones).
 
And the "adapter" you are referring to would be an ADC that converts the Cowon's analogue output signal into a digital one that can be "read" by the Mojo, but this would be pretty much nonsense as the Mojo would then not decode the source file but the analogue signal from the Plenue D, so one could directly use the Cowon's analogue headphone output.
 
The Plenue D just wasn't designed to be connected to an external DAC, period.

 

[ZerkMeister]

   
 
@kimD and @audio123
 
Impossible, even with an adapter. The Plenue D does not have a digital audio output and the has no analogue inputs (only digital ones).
 
And the "adapter" you are referring to would be an ADC that converts the Cowon's analogue output signal into a digital one that can be "read" by the Mojo, but this would be pretty much nonsense as the Mojo would then not decode the source file but the analogue signal from the Plenue D, so one could directly use the Cowon's analogue headphone output.
 
The Plenue D just wasn't designed to be connected to an external DAC, period.

Neither a amp correct?
I connect the C&C BH2 amp and all I hear is distorted sounds.

 

[HiFiChris]

@ZerkMeister
 
Well, although a dedicated line out is better to feed an external amp, you can of course add an amp to the Plenue D. Please keep in mind though that to get the best performance, you should set a high volume level on the Plenue D and then adjust the volume through the amp. However, some amps seem do output a distorted signal if the line in level is too high or too low (the latter might be the case with the Plenue D, as it is not the most powerful (less than 2 V which is the most common line out level)).

 

[ZerkMeister]

  @ZerkMeister
 
Well, although a dedicated line out is better to feed an external amp, you can of course add an amp to the Plenue D. Please keep in mind though that to get the best performance, you should set a high volume level on the Plenue D and then adjust the volume through the amp. However, some amps seem do output a distorted signal if the line in level is too high or too low (the latter might be the case with the Plenue D, as it is not the most powerful (less than 2 V which is the most common line out level)).

Gotcha thanks.
As much as I love the Plenue D, this kinda bugs me. At first I thought the amp was bad but what you said is probably true about the line level being too high or low.
EQ has me so confused now, I dont know if I like normal anymore lol.

 

[doeshongkong]

Thanks, will remember this, finally got tired of no music, took it back to the dealer who is looking into it.  I suspect chip memory is fried, or similar, will post back when I get the player back, cheers