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If you're using the non-Japanese version, then it doesn't use SonicStage/Atrac anymore. You need to use Windows Media Player or Windows Explorer to drag and drop the music on your A828. Or you can use Media Manager, which should be on your software disc. Hope that helps.

Thanks you three ^^^^^^^ I'll head on over to Sony insider. Markey gave me the link a while back, but I didn't sign up because I thought we'd be using the same login details as we have here - and it wouldn't accept them. So I'm going to open a new account. Thanks again Ishiyoshi, Ascariss and vaiofreak

Can't this toerag/lowlife be kicked off or have his IP address logged and reported? Now he's plugging child porn???? WTF??? EDIT: I already reported his posts, but he's still here, and promoting child porn? What happened to this site? Doesn't anybody moderate anymore?

Did you format the player in Windows Explorer, or from the settings in the player menu? You didn't say. If you formatted it in Explorer, you shouldn't have done, and that would explain why you're having problems. Reset the player from the player's own settings menu, and then format it from the settings as well. If you've already done that, then I don't know what to suggest Good luck!

Press 'pause' - then f/f again. It will go really fast

Ah... that explains why my login was rejected yesterday. I clicked on 'I've forgotten my password', even though I hadn't, and got a new one emailed to me. I'd like to change the new password back to the old one though, any ideas?

Don't know if anyone remembers that the 808/818 could not switch albums when they were used in the Sony speaker cradle. It worked with the 70x series but stopped working for the next series. You could only switch tracks, not albums. Well, last week I put my 829 in the cradle to charge, and let it play while it was charging. I meant to skip a track, and 'accidentally' skipped an album. And that's how I discovered the remote is fully usable with the 82x series. So if anyone has one of the 82x models, the album flip definitely works. Now I'm glad I bought 2 of the speaker cradles when they were discounted to £40!

I'm sure I have a spare Sony extension cable lying around. Let me have a look later and I'll let you know. It might be for the wrong earphones, but I know I have an extension for the NC022 earphones (would have to hunt them out), but not sure if the NC022 extension would fit the EX082???

So I clicked on my Atraclife bookmark, and instead of bringing me here - it took me to some strange site with adverts for vitamins and other non audio-related stuff. It was like that all day. In the end I assumed that Atraclife had shut down with no warning. Even though it's quiet around here, I like the fact it still exists, and I got spooked out when I thought it had gone forever

A happy ending... nice

Oh GOOD! I love it when things work out

Ohhhh, I forgot about the battery. It kind of defeats the object of portability. I hate to carry any extras around with me. And I wear the cable behind me too, so it's not a problem. And I guess maybe once BT phones are top quality with a minimum of 100 hours battery life (!!!), I'll have moved on to the 128 GB Sony

Stuge, that's a good point. I tend to think it I don't use/need it right now, then I'll never need it. Yeah, if the price of B/T phones comes down, and the quality is improved, then I'm future-proofed

I've never used it. I'm sure one day in the distant future, it might come in handy, but I don't know what for! If we'd had the non B/T version available here, I'd have got it. I don't like paying extra for something I won't use. At the moment, all it does is get in the way of the volume slider

LOL!! Actually, I ordered the A726 4gb from Amazon.com and got my friend to ship it to the UK, but I thought I'd ordered the A728 (8gb). I paid $27 postage International Priority (they should re-word that lie, PRIORITY!!), and it's not worth sending back and getting another due to postage costs. I was going to keep the 8gb (which is big enough to fit my favourites on), and sell the 829 as I don't need the silly B/T! Anyway, I'm going to sell the 726 on eBay, (the version without B/T), and keep the 829. Stupidly, I got the guy to take it out of the original packaging to cut down on shopping costs, worked like a charm... not! I do still love my baby, I was just going to swap it for a new smaller baby