Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

remember as well, you lose some storage space to formatting, seems to vary quite a bit. for example 120gb xbox hard drive only has 107gb for usage. think the sony player s639f had about 13/14 left for use.

an easy way to see, is to hover over the My Music folder or right click it and view properties. you can easily see how much music you already have compared to what you could fit on there.

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I got myself and my wife a Vusys from Ebuyer a couple of years ago. Ok they're not as cool and funky as the latest gen Mp3 players. But at the time they cost £64 for 20gb of storage! Ipods were only offering 8gb at over £100 I think.

I've got mine hooked up via USB cable to my car Cd player with all my favourite music, and I've still got loads of storage space.

But the point of my post is that Amazon is giving away £3 worth of FREE MP3 downloads from their catalogue. Its DRM free as I understand it too.

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

what is the new o/s?

and will it now allow me to use all the features of the NWA that have always told me to connect compliant software since new...

on a side note, my new nano has held out for 12 hours and the battery still has half left.

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

custard you can use the Sync function on windows media player 11, or you can install something from the supplied CD which allows you to use i-tunes. or you can drag and drop. what more could you want? i haven't used i-tunes yet but i guess that is best for podcasts. you plug in the player and it takes about 10 seconds for it to be ready to use, i think there is one driver. and it is recognised as a portable device and everything.. it works silky smooth, however you ask it to.

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

rayray - this thing is about 4 years old... it only came with the connect software and then found out about sonicstage...

any idea if this software is available on line?

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

Basically now you fill a Sony like you would a hard drive, simply copy and paste in the drive. Dead easy :) Only thing is you have to make sure the file's are named right... Infact I used to do this with my old Mini disc player which was meant to use sonic stage, you sure you cant do it with your old MP3 player?


Thats not formatting that does that, its because 1GB is actually 1024bits... So when they say 16Gb space they mean 16000bits, but in actual GB its 16000/1024 = 15.625GB... ;)

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

looks like it is sonic stage only for me. the latest models can use itunes and the drag and drop thing.

the NWA series/sonicstage convert all files to ATRAC which can not then be converted to MP3 or anything else for that matter if you are looking to transfer your library to anything else. They also can not play anything downloaded from Itunes.

it seems the general feeling about the NWA series of players is pretty grim.

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12...y_mp3_players/

The Reg did a review of the Sony Walkman S series a little while ago and seemed to like it mightily

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

i had a HD-5... which is now a brick but that used sonic stage. you can choose the option under setting to not convert tracks? sonic stage is so slow though. are you sure its not worth just upgrading?
my pc is all sorted now so i'm gona try and use the i-tunes thing i was saying about... wanna see what the playlist support is like

Re: iPod or Sony MP3 player?
 

nah, saw the light a couple of months ago and it was nano shaped...