I have this exact mp3 player and it died after 4 months. I would turn it on, and it would shut down immediately. It was great when it worked, but I paid more than $10 for it so I was very frustrated with it! Looking around on some message boards it has to do with the firmware and a lot of people were having the same problems. They said just to re-install the firmware, which I have done but it still doesn't work.