I've been using the NW-A45 for three years. Last year, I upgraded by 256 GB micro SD to 512 GB. I know they recommend a max of 128 GB cards, but I never had an issue with either the 256 or the 512. Starting two weeks ago, as I was routinely adding music I realized that new files were missing. They're on the card and I see then when I'm connected to the computer, but they're not added when I disconnect and the database is rebuilt. It appears that after hitting about either 320 GB of music or 43k songs (total, between SD and internal), it stopped adding new music to the database, leaving off the folders that were added last. This became more clear to me after I reformatted the SD card today and repopulated it and it neatly cut off near the start of artists starting with W, meaning that it's missing most W folders as well as all X, Y or Z. All the files are there, just not being recognized by the unit, and everything from A to W is there.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Any workarounds? I also tried resetting the unit to factory presets, which didn't fix anything. When I first noticed this happening, forcing a database rebuild would clear it up, but now that stopped working. I'm tempted to jump ship to Astell&Kern, but would love to figure this out and not spend $700 on a new unit.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Any workarounds? I also tried resetting the unit to factory presets, which didn't fix anything. When I first noticed this happening, forcing a database rebuild would clear it up, but now that stopped working. I'm tempted to jump ship to Astell&Kern, but would love to figure this out and not spend $700 on a new unit.