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Can you give me a link to the FAQ's. I am going to try and format my NW-A1000 and use it with Winamp.

That maybe true with MP3 @ 120kbs, but what about 320VBR? I use 320 joint stereo to rip my music. Granted with the increased sound quality the files are larger. An average song can be anywhere from 8 - 10MB. Some songs I have are 20+MB. But that is why I have several large external hard drives!

otiasj, <I advice you NOT to convert your music to atrac file format. Not too worry. I have 180GB+ library. I don't see that happening. <ml_sony is not compatible with other software like sonicstage or connect player, the only way you will be able to use it is by starting on a freshly formatted device and follow the faq on this forum I don't use Connect or Sonic stage only winamp. I will try the "freshly formatted device" in the FAQ. I am new to this forum and was not aware of this. Recently, I switched from iTunes to winamp because my new company computer (Panasonic Toughbook CF-73) doesn't like iTunes - another story. <I got my 2 sony player as presents and I would not recommend them over an ipod. I bought mine over the summer while working in England again. I like the look of it. The user interface is nice. I just don't like Connect or Sonic stage. They really mess up my music library. It sounds corny, but I pride myself on my music library. It has painstackingly taken my over six years to gather all my music. Many hours have been spent with "switch" and "tag & rename" to convert and tag all of my files. Not too mention if "T & R" could not find the album art, I would have to spend MANY HOURS searching various sites trying to locate them. <The simple solution is indeed to bring it back to exchange it for an ipod... I am working again in England and have a friend at the local Staples. I may have to phone him up and see if we can work something out if the formatting doesn't work. Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Jason Hampton - Freedom isn't free ------------------------- If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

<It is actually proven that ATRAC3plus 64kbps sounds BETTER than MP3 128kbps Where was this proven? Can you provide a web link or other info? I have heard other opinions as well. Best Regards, J Hampton - Freedom isn't free ------------------------- If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

I am just trying to get the music onto my walkman and be able to listen to it. I already have 5GB of music on there from using the Sony Connect software provided. When I sent it to the device via winamp it will transfer and I can view it from winamp. But when I disconnect the walkman, the songs are not able to be viewed or played. My library is very well groomed with switch and tag & rename. I have since unistalled Sony Connect because it messes up my music library (180GB+). I use winamp to play music from my external hard drive. Now I am trying to get winamp to convert my mp3's to the ATRAC file format used by the walkman. Is there some other tweaks or something I need to do? If I can't get this to work I might take this walkman back and buy another ipod. I know the plugin for the ipod works with no bugs!

I have recently bought a Sony NW-A1000 (6GB walkman). I use winamp and have installed the SONY_ML plugin. When I right click on my music and send to device, it sends it. I have checked that the music is there but when I disconnect the walkman it doesn't recognize the files. I am wondering if it tranfered them in mp3 format and not ATRAC format. Any advise would be helpful. Regards, J. Hampton - Freedom isn't free

I would advise you to use VBR instead of CBR. Here is a quote from a user on the Winamp forums - I had a similar question. ----------------------------- Winamp uses the Lame encoder. Your setting VBR New is correct, but you should choose Joint Stereo. Forcing Stereo will create larger files with no perceptable difference in channel seperation. Joint Stereo allows for material common on both channels to be encoded only once. By choosing 192 kbs as both the minimum and maximum bitrate you are basically forcing CBR. You can safely lower the minimun bitrate down to 96kbs or lower and raise your maximum to 320 kbs. These settings allow the encoder the flexibility to select the most appropriate rate for each sample. A Quality setting of 2 will create roughly the same size files as CBR 192, the difference being CBR keeps file size the same with varying quality. VBR keeps the quality the same while file sizes vary. ---------------------------- Hope it helps. Regards, J Hampton - Freedom isn't free