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I've had exactly the same problem and I've fixed it!!!!
I had mp3's which I copied onto the 1G IBM microdrive via the axim and they would play for about 10 seconds then stop. reset the axim, reformatted the drive, verified the drive, ran scandisk on the drive, tried mp3's with different bit rates, all sorts of stuff. Nothing seemed to fix it and I assumed my microdrive was on it's way out.
Another one of my problems was also the fact that I couldn't copy large files onto the microdrive. They seemed to hang at what I perceived to be the amount of free memory the Axim had.
Anyway to try and get around this I purchased a 7in1 USB card reader. Put the microdrive in it, reformatted it as FAT32 (using XP) and copied mp3s onto it.
lo and behold it works fine now. plays 60M mp3's no problem.
So I asked myself, was it the fact that I'd used tools on my Axim to reformat the microdrive as fat16? So I've just copied a 16M mp3 onto the microdrive via the Axim (instead of via the 7in1 USB reader) and it stopped playing it after 10 secs.
So my assumption is that for some reason either the Axim itself or PocketPC is corrupting the mp3 during transfer. I paid ~£11 for the 7in1 USB reader, so they aren't expensive. And now I've got a decent mp3 player again. Hope that helps
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