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Yeah, I meant MD-DOS (FAT), which happens to be FAT32 (going from memory). One note, you can't load a single file bigger than 4Gb with that formatting.
I would try another UEB cable if formatting doesn't fix the problem, or see if a powered hub fixes the issue.
No dice on anything. I've completely erased, repartitioned, tried every single possible format and combination, tried with different cords, tried through the USB connection directly to the computer, tried through a USB hub, tried daisy-chaining USB hubs -- the same problem, every single time. Sometimes I can copy over half an album, sometimes just a song, but every single time the HM602 ejects itself halfway through the process. I've probably spent five hours trying to find
some way to deal with this. I have to say, after a wait that was supposed to be a couple of weeks, then a month, then a month and a half, then two months, this is incredibly, incredibly annoying.
Also -- and this is something I obviously should have realized beforehand -- but I'm somewhat gobsmacked that even if I could get it to work, I wouldn't be able to play mp4s (AACs). iPods/iPhones are the most popular audio player by an enormous margin, Apple is slowly overtaking PCs on the personal computer market in the US -- and yet the 602 can't play Apple lossless files. I have 100 GB or so of flac files, but I have more than 1 TB of Apple lossless files.
Combine that with the fact that there's no gapless playback -- which means any live recording, anything where a single suite is broken into individual components, anything where bands bleed one song into another is going to be a jagged listening experience -- and it feels like this is something that does a poor good job filling an important (albeit smallish) niche i this market. (On a mostly unrelated note, the counter intuitive interface makes me realize what a good job Apple does on this count.)
I'm really disappointed -- I was incredibly excited at the prospect of being able to listen to high quality files in bed as opposed to sitting next to my computer -- but even if I was somehow able to get this to work consistently, I think I'd likely be returning it.
I'll ask this over on the official Head Direct forum, but does anyone know what the deal is on the 30-day return in relation to the RE262s? I'm assuming those go back as well; is there an option to buy those on their own? They're a nice little pair of IEMs...
(And, as a final, desperate hail mary, if there is anyone else who is having/has had similar issues with Macs and has found a way to deal with the problem different from Headphone Addict's advice above, I'm all, um, ears. I
would really like to get a chance to check this out properly. Despite all my complaints, I so want to like this product enough to justify spending the money on it. Also, speaking of Headphone Addict, many thanks for so patiently explaining the steps you took. Would that it had worked for me. I'm glad you got it going, and it sounds like you helped some other people as well.)
