Sony NW-A306

[PD64]

When I turn on my NW-A306 it takes up to 5 minutes before I can actually play any downloaxed tracks. I have a 1TB micoSD card installed and downloaded music is stored on it. Music has been downloaded from Tidal.

Is this just a consequence of storing music on the card?

And will it just get worse the more music I download?

The card is a Samsung Evo Select.

 

[Al ears]

When I turn on my NW-A306 it takes up to 5 minutes before I can actually play any downloaxed tracks. I have a 1TB micoSD card installed and downloaded music is stored on it. Music has been downloaded from Tidal.

Is this just a consequence of storing music on the card?

And will it just get worse the more music I download?

The card is a Samsung Evo Select.

Odd. As far as I am aware it should play instantly.
Is this new or has it been happening for a while?
The only thing I can think of is that the device doesn't support memory cards of that size.
Many do not. Check specification or copy to a smaller volume microSD card and try that.
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Et voila!
Just checked and, as I thought, you cannot use a card bigger than 2GB in your Sony so it's card size being the issue.....
Sony Walkman devices that can use SD cards support the following standards:

• For micro SDXC cards, the Walkman supports up to 2TB.
• For Micro SDHC cards, the Walkman supports up to 32 GB
• For micro SDSC cards, the Walkman supports up to 2 GB.

Sony doesn't guarantee full compatibility with cards from other brands

You can thank me later for bothering to Google stuff like this as it sounds like a case of RTFM.... 🙂
And hopefully this suggestion will not get me banned as still trying to offer constructive suggestions in the only way I know how.......