INSIGNIA MP3 PLAYER

Connect the player to your computer using the USB cable that came with the player. The player will show up as a "Removable Drive" in Windows Explorer. If you have songs on your computer (files with .mp3 extension), transfer those to the player using 'Copy/Paste' operations in Windows Explorer or use the Windows Media Player program to transfer them. If you do not have any songs on your computer get some with iTunes.

1. Make sure all the songs are in mp3 formate.
2. Make sure the songs are not protected copywright.
3. Most of the songs once plugged into the device is pugged into the usb device you can drag and drop into the music folder

Here's your answer: Songs will skip ...

• If "Copy protected" option is selected when ripping CD in WMP10 or WMP11.
  • Deselect "Copy protected" options in WMP10 or WMP11 before ripping CD.

How to deselect "Copy protected" options

1. Run WMP software.
2. Right click Ripping on the top menu, then select Tools / Options.
3. Click Rip Music.
4. Make sure to deselect "Copy protect music".

-Tha Mp3 Doctor

Could be that one of the tracks you have loaded is copy protected (DRM) some players just skip these tracks, some show a "File format not supported" error, and others freeze.

Go to the folder where you store the tracks you have loaded on to the player using My Computer or Windows Explorer, so that the individual tracks show.

Click on the Views icon and select Details

In the right hand windows, right click on one of the headings which have just appeared, and put a tick in the "Protected" box.

"Protected" will now appear as a heading and each file will show Yes or No.

Any files showing as Yes are not compatible with your player.

If you are downloading these files from the internet, then you'll have to look elsewhere for files.

If you are ripping your own CDs to .MP3 or .WMA with Windows Media Player, then you need to change a setting in Windows Media Player.

Open Windows Media Player. If visible, click on "Tools" then options. If the menus are not visible, right-click at the top of the Media Player Window, then select "Tools" and click options.

Click on the "Rip CD" or "Rip Music" tab (depending on version).

Remove the tick from the box next to "Copy Protect Music" (or similar)

This will stop DRM protection on any further tracks ripped.

You will need to rip any DRM tracks again.

Make a note of skipping tracks & check these tracks play ok on the PC - this will rule out corrupted tracks.
Skipping of entire tracks can be due to DRM copy protected tracks (purchased on-line). Some players will not play DRM tracks.

You can check for protected tracks.

• In Windows Explorer, go to the folder where the tracks are stored on your PC.
• Click on View -----> Details
• Right click on the header bar in the right hand window and select protected. (If protected is not listed click on More)
• Tracks will be listed with No or Yes under protected. Check your skipping tracks are listed as No, under protected.

If none of this helps, install and run the Philips Device Manager. Select the repair / restore option and follow the on-screen prompts. This will format the player, ruling out a corrupt file system on the player, and re-load the firmware.

your player does not support any protected files, Protected files transferred to the player will be skipped without playing.
whats the error you get?

The license has expired on the skipping songs

I restored settings to default factory settings and has been working and not skipping the songs. Restoring to factory settings does not delete any of your data/songs

-Raj

MP3 files are not a totally homogeneous group. You have different bitrates, and different codecs that output MP3s, let alone all the MPCs and the likes. You should check what your player's recommended bitrate is, and try to find what is common with the MP3s it can't play. Maybe you get them from the same source. If you rip a cd, and output it to MP3 files, my bet is that either all or none will work, there is no randomness here. The only other option is that the files got corrupted somehow, and the player can't read them. Good luck

MP3 players i have seen so far are only able to play WMA,Wav,MP3 files. Other files are skipped. Also, there arent many MP3 devices that can play DRM protected Files. Your might be it.