Does anyone have any tips or know of any guides as to the best encoding parameters for MP3 to use with the Bolero?

I put a selection of my MP3s onto an SD card to play and found that most of them ended prematurely - i.e. a 4 minute track would skip onto the next one after 1 or 2 minutes. I think there was a mix of fixed and variable bit rates. I can probably work it out by a process of elimination with a selection of different tracks but wondered in case anyone had encountered this.

The Bolero can handle fixed and variable bit rates quite easily so could it a demo version of the program that you're using?

Bolero can play 320kbps MP3 be that CBR or VBR with no problem at all, so as mentioned in the previous post its most likely the software you are using but it could equally be an issue with the optical drive in your computer.

Try playing the files on your computer, do they stop at the same point. If they don't then it could still be the drive, if the MP3 file has errors in it caused by missing bytes during the rip then the file may play on a computer but not the Bolero, try ripping at a slower speed instead of "MAX"

Ah ok. Well I know the mp3's are fine as they play on iPod, android phone, PC, playstation etc.

I've found another clue though - the read only tab on the micro sdhc adapter was flicked up making the card read only. I wonder if the Bolero was trying to write playing information back to the MP3 files and failing. I'll try later to see if that was the cause.

Thanks.