Cowon D2

My MP3-Player (or rather Portable Media Player, as it plays not only MP3, but also videos, and more importantly FLAC and ogg vorbis) the Cowon D2 has had some problems with playing tracks in the right order.

It worked fine when opening the files via the file browser, but when browsing them via tags the playing order was… well, out of order. It wasn’t random though, on the iAudiophile forums I read something about it being a typically Korean bug, because the track numbers were read from right to left or something.

Anyways, the latest firmware update, 2.59, finally fixed that bug. Or so I thought. All my mp3s are now playing in the correct order, which is really great. The problem is: The FLACs are still playing out of order.

So now I’m converting all my FLACs to mp3s. With LAME and the -V0 setting, which schould produce really good quality mp3s. I probably won’t hear the difference, but it still makes me sad that Cowon didn’t manage to fix that bug once and for all.

So right now I cannot recommend buying a Cowon D2, though it is really an awesome device!

I’ll file this under “lesson learned”: Check the web for bug reports before you buy something.