I have an incident report with M-Audio, but the guy who answered my question apparently can't or didn't read my report cause the answer was just stupid...
Anway, used the MT for the first time over the weekend. Both Friday and Saturday. worked great! Saturday morning i bumped all the friday night stuff to my laptop, tracked it etc etc. Formatted the card, recorded saturday without incident. All files are there, i listented to them off the MT a bit.
Got home (i was on the road) and plugged the MT into the laptop to bounce the saturday stuff over for tracking and flacing. When i plugged the chord into the MT, it started booting, then went to "charging" mode. So it was as if i plugged it into the AC adapter. (get the picture of a Plug not the USB symbol). The MT does not show up as a drive under "My Computer".
I re-tried this process several times, making sure i was doing it the exact way M-Audio says to. Still no dice.
Tried to force connection to PC via the system menu option... no dice
Tested it on another PC to be sure it wasn't my laptop... no dice
Rebooted the laptop at least twice... no dice
Reset MT to factory default via system menu... no dice
I have not tried to reinstall the firmware cause that would mean i'd have to be able to connect to a PC to transfer via USB (or buying a card reader, which i shouldn't have to do to use my MT, it should work as intented for the price we pay for it)
Just for completness sake, i relayed this story to M-Audio.. making sure to be clear that i have tried the obvious solutions so i didn't get the ol' "did you plug it in right"... this was the response i got...
"Actually the computer and your Microtrack will do all the work as far as the Microtrack being recognized. You do not have to go to the "connect to PC" function or anything else. When using the Microtrack with the computer, the only functionality you will be able to access are the files on your Microtrack that you access in My Computer."
i posted to them again, waiting on that response, but i thought i'd ask here to people who might actually read what i wrote
Thanks!
Logan