Noise at the beginning of each song/ Zen Mi

Well at the start of every song i have a slight noise. I'm using firmware ..0 Zen Micro 6GB. Thanks
Bernd

the Micro photo (not sure about the micro) has what your referring to as long as the screen is on. It's a sad known bug. Just set your screen to turn off ASAP and basicly deal with it. Noone on the Head-Fi forums can find a fix for it either

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