Sony MP3 walkman
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- jamble
Anyone got one of these beauties? http://www.dabs.com/uk/shopbybra…
I'm thinking about spunking my money on one because my ipod only lasts about an hour these days. Any good / bad thoughts about these?
- del_razor0
it says it supports mp3's and wma files... but does it really?
they've done it before.. where basically.. you'd have to use a special piece of software.. that "accepts" mp3's... but what it does is converts em to ATRAC files for the player..
which made loading the thing take forever..i'd double check before jumping in to make sure this is not the case..
otherwise.. go get yourself a Creative Zen.. great player for the price.. perfect sound quality
- jamble0
that's my big concern to be honest, apparently it now fully supports standard mp3 tracks. I was also wondering how good the navigation is as I'm a big fan of the ipod scrollwheel for it's simplicity and functionality and I have had a god on an iriver player and that truly sucks.
- donal0
i got one of these. They only support sony MP3 file - called MPS and you have to buy them off the sony website for $3 each and there are only 2000 songs up there at the moment.
- donal0
thats a lie by the way. i don't have one.
- Hym0
sony changed it's way they all play mp3 natively now and for most old ones there are firmware upgrades
- jamble0
I thought that was the case, just wasn't sure! Might have to go to Dixons and make the shop monkeys demonstrate it's powers to me!
- concentricus0
Neat. I want one.
- dc_again0
i had a sony mp3 player - not this one - about 18 months ago, and the main problem was that sony are anal regarding 'stolen'(!!!) mp3s. very often i'd attempt to put an album on the player and it would say ' we cannot find the copyright information for this mp3 on your machine. it will not be transferred' (or something like that). no matter what you did, you couldn't get it on there.
make sure you find out about that before you do anything.
unless, of course, you are a very nice person and only convert CDs that you have bought to mp3 :)
- JazX0
I wouldn't use the word beauty, but that's just me