A little help, please…

I get an inordinate number of "Data error (cyclic redundany check)" errors when uploading songs. I get at least one for every two CD's I upload. Judging by the lack of posts mentioning that particular error, I'm clearly having a lot more problems than anybody else.

All of my CD's are ripped w/ secure mode EAC and encoded with various versions of LAME. Encspot and Mp3Trim find no errors with the files that are failing and no software has any problem playing them. I'm using consumer version 2 of the empeg software, but I had the same problems with the prior beta versions.

I've tried a number of things: saving the files in mp3trim, deleting the tags, reripping the files, etc and all have worked occasionally and none have worked consistently.

I do get the occasional “Hard disk not found” error, but it hasn’t happened in a while and every time it has, rebooting the player has taken care of it. So maybe it’s related to the bad cable issue…but the same tracks will fail every time.

It’s extremely frustrating, particularly since it chokes on each offending track for at least 15 minutes, which prevents me from ever doing a quick upload to the player.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance…

Bill