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Then I must have been lucky. Every copy controlled CD I tried could be handled by MD Simple Burner that came with SS 3.3 Earlier versions could not handle my copy protected CD's. Georg

I think you are a little wrong here. 1000mA is how much ampere the charger can give as maximum. How much it really gives is depending on resistance in your device according to ohm's law. I am rather sure that 200 mA is enough for this little device. If it is not enough then the charger can be broken, not mp3 player. I think I will buy the charger. It is cheap and it could be possible that you not always have a computer, even if it is improbable Georg

I have NW-e405. The only disadvantage for me is that you can charge it only with USB of a computer. Theoretically I think it would be possible to have an adapter to give power to the USB contact in device. The voltage and which pins that are for the power is standard for computers, so it would be possible, I think. Has anybody seen if there is such a thing on market? Georg

I agree. If you have minidisc the newest version of MD Simple Burner can handle most copy protected discs. That is rather strange in my opinion. A way that I haven't tried, but should work is to first copy to minidisc with Simple Burner (if you have a minidisc of course) and the back to Sonicstage, and then to your device. Also that is cumbersome, but I think a little faster than ripping methods. The best would be if next version of Sonicstage could handle copy protected discs ac MD Simple Burner can. Georg

Another ripper is Audiograbber". It is free, very fast and easy to understand. I can't remember that I ever have failed in ripping copy protected CDs with that program. You get wav-files and can import them to Sonicstage. The problem however is that Sonicstage then doesn't seek CD info. If you first copy them back to a rewritable CD and then import to Sonicstage, then all works perfectly. Georg

I had music on old minidiscs. Nowadays I have NW-HD5. In earlier Sonicstage I couldn't copy back these files. Program said that it was recorded on another computer. With SS 3.4 it was no problem to move tracks from Minidisc to NW-HD5. Of couse I could have copied them from original discs, because it really was mine, but this makes life much easier. It is not an easy task to copy 30 CD’s. But in this way it was made in no time. Thank you Sony. Georg

I see. I didn't notice that in 3.3 Georg

Now you can convert from CD to true MP3 from 96 kb/s to 320 kb/s. So you really can choose between Atrac and MP3. I think this is a very wise decision from Sony. Atrac is perhaps better than MP3 in sound at leat in 64 kb/s, but MP3 is here to stay and it can be advantage to have only one format to deal with. Also all these strange “recover rights” functions in software have disappeared. I think nobody quite understood what all this were about. We can also hope that you don't have to reformat your Walkman if you have made a new harddisk installation on your computer. I really hope so. In my opinion Sony has the best sound of all portable players. The design has been outstanding. If this software is what I hope for, Sony can give Ipod a real fight at last I think. Georg

You must read between lines. I know that it is not a real virus. Didn't you see the quotation marks? Or you can call it a virus. That is a question of definition. A virus is a program that you haven't asked for and hide itself so you can't find it. It does things with your computer that you have not asked for. With that definition it is a virus. And as it is hidden hackers have used it to hide real virus as "Breplibot.b" As it prevents you from coping CD's more than three times, I don't find it too far-fetched that something could has got wrong so it prevented also from transfering in Sonicstage. Georg

I and many with me got message ”transfer not allowed” in SS3.3. I had to reformat harddisk. Now i got an idea. Perhaps it is a consquence of Sonys ”root-virus”? That is kind of virus that acts as copy protection. If somebody else has the problem it could perhaps be worth to download a killer for that insidious program from Sonys homepage here: http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/updates.html Georg

I think it is a bug in SS 3.3. Hopefully Sony fix it, but I don't think so. A little hope would be that all devices will be able to connect to "connect player" in future. I think so, because Sony will earn money if more people can download music. And it is all about money. I just bought NW-E405. Had NW-E99 as flash player before. Didnt like that it was no good for chargeable batteries. Lasted very short. In my opinion the sound is even better in NW-e405. So I like it. But it would be nice to use SS 3.3 with more recording possibilities. But as I said I don't dare to upgrade before this bug is fixed Georg

Thank you for suggestion. I have tried, and same result. i have now made a new formation of harddisk. This time I installed SS3.0 . haven't heard of that error in 3.0 version. I don't dare to upgrade now. Too bad. Georg

NW-E405. Sonicstage 3.3. This problem is described before, but no solution. I can transfer mp3- files as they are. When I try to compress them further to Atrac 64 I got error message ""Transfers are not allowed" Any ideas what is wrong? Georg

When it is possible with firmware update Sony should update also earlier models to wma in my opinion. Perhaps they will do later, I hope. Georg

Thank you. Interesting! Georg

If you recording a CD to Atrac In Sonystage 3.3 you can choose between normal and high quality, where normal is faster. Does anybody know the technical differences? A hypothesis from me is that normal quality doesn't transcode over a certain frequency e.g. 15000 Hz. Only a guess. Does anybody knows for certain? Georg

Thank you. I will try that! Georg

The worst thing with Sonicstage is that if you harddisk crashes then I can't import any more file to my NW-HD5. I have to erase all tracks from device because Sonicstage says that it is wrong computer! If I then had the OMG files on the harddisk that crashed then I have to record all my tracks to first harddisk and the device once again. This is a big problem. Everyone in this forum must have experienced a harddisk crash so you have to rebuild everything again. Is there no way, a hack or something so you don't have to rerecord everything again only because your harddisk crashes? Georg

This could have been asked before, but I didn't find it. Is Connect Player compatible with older Net Walkmans e.g. NW-HD5? I guess not, but better to ask than guess. Georg

In Sonicstage 3.3 I can copy a CD in 320 kb/s but not 352 When I shall transmit to my device NW-HD5 I can transmit in 352 but not in 320. Is this logical? Have I misunderstood something? Georg

Me to have wondered of that problem. I think you have the compressed lossy file incoporated in the lossless file as some kind if attachment. That is the only possibility, what I can find. The lossless file in Sonicstage is smaller than original file, but still about half a CD. But I think that is no problem today. Most of us have bigger harddisks than we will ever use nowadays. Georg