Hit 500 saved songs on my Zune and it reset everything

I had this old Zune 30 that survived since 2007, and last week I finally got it to 500 saved tracks after months of using a dead laptop to load files through a USB adapter. The moment the counter flipped to 500, the whole library wiped itself back to factory reset, all my playlists gone. I spent 4 hours rebuilding it with lower bitrate files from an old hard drive, and honestly, that reset made me realize I was hoarding songs I never listened to anyway. Has anyone else had a storage cap or file limit mess up their player like that, or is my Zune just cooked for good?

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tessa8291mo ago

...and that exact thing happened to my old 30 gig back in 2010, right after I hit like 450 songs. Turns out the Zune has a known quirk where the library gets corrupted if you add files too fast or the battery dies mid-sync. I fixed mine by doing a hard reset, then loading songs in batches of 50 and letting it fully index between each batch. Took forever but it never wiped again after that. Also, I stopped using the dead laptop thing and just copied files directly from the hard drive, which helped a lot. Your player probably ain't cooked, but those old spinning drives are fragile, so back up that library to something else before you rebuild again.

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thomas_wright411mo ago

Batching them in 50s makes sense, but ever think the counter itself is the trigger? Like the firmware has a hard floor at 500 and treats it as a full wipe signal.

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