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hi everyone. I can see those file in file manager but can't play them because there is a question mark next to these flac files. Then I transferee these files into another laptop running on window xp and transfer them into the player again and voilà! Now I can see and play these flac files. How strange is that? My another laptop is running on window vista

interesting whatever111 and glad its sorted, we have had occasions where copying from a particular machine cases errors like this, but thats on some other player and not seen it on the T51 before - its rare but has happened

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Regarding the quality - I do not want to go into this debate beacuse that is not the point. Part of the answer is yes - I was intending to use the player attached to very good quality Hi-Fi system (do not ask why); the main issue is that FLAC capability is in the spec of the player. If it does not work that is false advertising. On top of that - there is much bigger difference between 320bit mp3 and a FLAC file than between 96Kx and 192Khz sampling. Higher rate sampling exist so different filtering can be applied without loosing the sound quality.

Now back to the issue - do I understand this correctly - my files are sitting on a server that is with windows XP - if I copy the files by accessing them by a windows 7 machine they will not be visible and if I go directly on the server everything is fine?

Here try this. If you have two computer, copy the flac files that can't be seen from the player into another computer. After that transfer back those flac files from the computer back into the player. This method worked for me.

Btw what's the exact file extension of your flac files that show up with the question mark.

we have nothing to do with this?
I just got a great album which is 24kbits flac....

Were you able to get the files to actually show up on the player or they do not show up at all still?

FINALLY I identified the problem and it is not anything to do with SFLO2. My wife recently bought a COWON J3 and she experienced the same problem. Then I tried the suggested fix to copy files from a WinXP machine not from a WIN 7 one - AND IT WORKED. This tells me that there is something different how FLACs are transferred from one OS compared to the other. One guy on a different forum noticed (after having the same problem with J3) that if you rename FLAC files and instead of FLAC extension use .FLA extension everything works as a charm.

Now - the question is why is this happening? Another guy pointed that .FLA was an official Flac extension until Adobe complained and they had to use .Flac. Is it possible that the player firmwares actually look for .FLA files and not .FLAC ??? I am thinking along the lines that WIn XP somehow was carrying dual extension information while Win 7 has only information about .FLAC extension. If this is the case can someone ask guys from Nationlite to look at this and fix it with another firmware maybe?

Thanks for the update decky, quite strange, but good thing that you got it sorted.