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yes, my bad for the model reference, sorry. unfortunately I don't have a solution now, except buying another player.. :-( the device is not recognized anymore by my PC, that's the point. it doesn't appear anymore as 'removable disc' (neither with W.Explorer, nore with sonistage, obviously). I couldn't have guessed that spontaneaously for 3 reasons 1/ it never occured before (bad luck that this happened at the same period/the same day as I did my sonicstage version uprgade) 2/ the 'battery charging" icon does appear (as usual) on the device when I plug the player on USB port 3/ the 'Data access' msg does appear (as usual) on the device when I plug the player on USB port (even though it's not true anymore after a few more seconds... the device doesnt get detected "anymore" by my PC. or or any other PC, actually... :-( ) >> my player is half dead :-( it still can play, but it can't synchronize anything anymore, I can't change the current music selection anymore. Thks anyway! have a good day

Hi sfbp, first, thank you for your time. my NW-e005 player is very old, I bought it in 2006, but since it's small, convenient and working, I didn't find a reason why I should change it (untill my described problem occured) here is what does look like: https://www.google.f...iw=1280&bih=889 to answer your questions 2 to 4, yes, I can locate and play the music stored on my PC, protected by copy rights or not. BUT.. BUT.. BUT... you're completly right with your question #1 (!!) ("Can you see it on any screen at all on the computer,") even if the icon for battery "being charged" does appears as usual on the device itself, my PC doesn't recognize the device (doesn't appear as usual under explorer for example. I couldn't imagine the player being "USB-detected" for charging and not for accessing data.. obviously possible now). I think that answers all my (stupid) questions. No wonder that the sonicstage 4.3 version can not display the device I was expecting to transfer my music on... THANKS a lot for your help to a d..b a.. user....... would be good for your forum to delete this topic ;-) Thanks again!

Hi all, I recently upgraded my sonicstage v. 3.4 (which I've been using since years to transfer music from PC to my old mp3 player NW-0005) to the 4.3 v.... what a surprise to dsicover that the transfer to the MP3 player isn't possible anymore!! (only otions available are related to a CD: create an Audio CD, create an ATRAC CD, create an MP3 CD) impossible for me understand that........; anyways, now I'm stucked because I can neither find the install CD, nor find the 3.4 exec (or I really didn't search well on this forum). nothing here (at least I couldn't find the link to download the full installer file) sorry if I couldn't manage to search good enough, I thought this would be easy to find, but I couldn’t.. neither on the sony site , nor on your forum.. I'd love to read your answers because I can't modifiy any music on my mp3 player without the adequate sofwware at the moment ... :-(( many thanks in advance!!