1. It does bother me, otherwise I would not have gone to the trouble of posting a help request.

2. The help I have had from Sony is limited to telling me to reformat the card. Given that the action is by design, this advice is misleading. Surely the designers of the player know that it is by design and surely they could have told me, but they didn't.

3. My expectations are driven by the NWZ-A15 I have. With the same card, containing the same files, it boots in under one second. I am at a loss to understand why this player takes in excess of two minutes.

4. There is no need to create the database "just in case of a change" each time. It is a very simple matter for a 'fingerprint' file to be created each time files are added, and for that file to be checked. If it is the same as preevivously (so no new files have been added), the database create instruction is by-passed.

5. It would be remarkably simple to allow a user setting to make database creation at start-up a manual or an automatic process.