Yes it certainly did. I had loaded about 3000 songs into the system and I usually play a portion of a track from each disk after I load them to make sure that they've downloaded properly, then I noticed that it was taking a lot longer to download each song than usual but I put that down to a dirty or worn disk, gave them a clean and started the process again but that didn't seem to improve things and then I noticed the strange apparent skipping audio sound blah blah blah and that's where I am at present....and yes I do have an external HD
