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Welcome to AtracLife! I extracted the Image Converter software from my CD, and uploaded it to a site for you (it is a RAR file), and anyone else who may need it. (The file is hosted for 60 days, so get it now!) http://www.zshare.net/download/692442700d395a/ Hope it works. If not, there's plenty of other software you can use. Since I don't like plugging in my 808 while Image Converter is converting videos, I use a program called WinAVI MP4 Converter, which works great for me (some other programs have audio sync issues). And for YouTube clips/ FLV videos, there's a good one called FLV to AVI MPEG WMV 3GP MP4 Ipod Converter. Hope this helps.

Check your inbox, I just PMed you with a link. Hope this helps.

Another great program out there is WinAVI MP4 Converter. It lets you encode for PSP, iPods (works for A8xx models), and has plenty of encoding options.

If all the songs will contain the same image art, you could do this: Go to All Tracks View, then select the songs that are in that CD, right-click, and go to Properties. Tick the 'Compilations' Tab, then go back to Album View, they should now appear as an "individual" album. Now you can attach your art to all the songs in that album. For songs already on your player, I don't think there's a way, so you would have to delete that song, and reupload it with the album art. Hope this helps.

With my NW-A808, SonicStage doesn't always pick up the release year when I import mp3s that I tagged. I know most of you NWZ-A81X users hate Sonicstage, but if it's already on your computer, have you tried setting just the release year within Sonicstage and seeing if it also shows up on your player?

Ouch, I completely forgot about that. According to the A810 manual it states: "To delete songs from the player, use the software you used to transfer the songs, or Windows Explorer." With the A800 series, you just delete the songs into the Trash Bin, and when you load up Sonicstage it deletes the songs from the player first, before you can do anything else. Sadly I can't use the Trash Bin because I turned off the 'Intelligent Features' in Sonicstage. But it can't be that difficult to go into Explorer and deleting the songs from there right? @sharklover: Really? ATRAC 64kbps? I got tired of waiting to convert all the time, and since I now have 8GB of capacity, I don't need to do that anymore

I say expect a price drop for the new A810 series in Canada (they just brought down the A810 prices in America to match the Nanos). I guess another difference would be not having the 'Ratings' in the new one (someone correct me if I'm wrong), and from pictures I've seen, the main menu icons look bigger and have some blue gradient background at the bottom. Oh yeah, you can use the A810 series on Mac and Linux. Check out aznbro85's review here. Basically it's the same player, just with WMP11/drag and drop, and no more ATRAC/Sonicstage. Sony's planning on releasing a compatibility update for the older A800s to support WMP11/drag and drop, so who knows. I spent $300CDN for my A808, so I wonder how low the price is going to go before they sell them all. (No word yet as to whether there will be a 8GB A810 player in Canada)

Wow great review aznbro85! Now I really wish there'd be a firmware update for us A800 users

Hey pata, I went to the source code page you mentioned, very interesting (even though I'm not sure what it is) and I noticed there's a source code for this: NW-A808,NW-A808/S,NW-A806,NW-A805 update (20070829) Now, do you think this could mean there might be a firmware update (looking at the date)? Interesting find!

Image Converter isn't the best software out there. I couldn't encode any .mov files. It sometimes works (good for xvid), it sometimes doesn't. I would suggest to make sure you have the proper codecs, or use other software that encodes to an iPod compatible .mp4 (eg. Xilisoft Video Converter is what I use) and it should be playable on your A806. Hope this helps.

Looks awesome. I still don't know what it is lol

If you look closely at the box for the NWZ-S61x series, I think it says 1.8 inch screen, but people are confusing it for 18 hours of video playback. These new players look good though, hopefully I won't have buyer's remorse with my A808 Also, they took out the clock from the main menu, and I'm guessing they replaced it with some folder view. The photos can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/5th_avenue/

On the bright side, they might go down in price

There are maybe two places this video file might be in. Go to My Computer > Go into your mp3 player > from here the video might be in... 1) a folder called MP_ROOT > 100ANV01 (or something along those lines) (This folder is where all the converted video files you make in Image Converter go in) 2) a folder called VIDEO (this is where you can drag and drop compatible videos in)