Sasso

Hey I just got the software and tested it out, I would firstly like to say a big THANK YOU for your time and effort so far to give us this freedom. I am hoping that eventuall you can turn it into a software that can fully replace SS, much like the many software for the ipod like ephPod and stuff like that. To help you get there I'll give you suggestions and my thoughts and experiences. I went through the wizard, fairly easy to go through it, except when you have to drop the tmp files on the mp3FM it crashed, then i tried to do it again even though the pc was crashed and it didnt respond for a few minutes but then started, and it took so long I was able to watch The Lord Of The Rings return of the king and it was still going when I came back, I only have 1400 songs on there, but i do have usb1.1, maybe a warning that says it will take as long as it normally would to transfer all the songs on to the player on that particular screen. Second problem I had was that when the comp crashed i closed the wizard. So i had to start it again and it created the tmp files again, but it was still the same so i was able to complete the wizard, and my songs are still in tact so all good. In the actual browser there was a little problem viewing a particular album. The window on the right had the (all albums) or whatever but above it it had the Destiny's child album called #1's, and when you clicked #1's it did what (all albums) should have done and displayed everything, then when you clicked (all albums) it showed nothing. So no idea what's happening, but i suppose look at the program when you have an album named #1's and see what it does. There is a little restriction with the 'save tracks' thing. You cant save only a single track, if you open an album and press save tracks it saves the whole album, it would be so much better if you could put a right click menu so when you right click on a particular song you can save it individually. Especially when you only want 1 song off a large album and it would take ages for nothing. Also is there any way you can distinguish mp3s from Atracs in the browser? It would be good to add another column just so people know which of their songs are mp3 and can be saved, plus its just good to have, as well as bitrate if its not too hard. Oh one last thing, when you double click the .exe to start the browser it seems like its not doing anything for a while then it opens with everything there. I know in SS and mp3FM it takes a while to load the tracks, but they actually tell you what its doing, so it would be good if the program opened first and then read the player. Its just good to know its not crashed or something. I'm not sure how quickly it loads the library with a usb2.0 connection but its pretty slow with 1.1. Thats all i can think of at the moment. I'll share any further experiences when they come.

The HD5 is full of stupid little bugs like that. I too hate the shutdown times of the HD5, they are way too short, you look away and it switches off before you press something. And the player still turns off when you have it paused. What's worse is that if you are shuffling something it looses the info of what you have just played and what you havn't so it starts shuffling again.....grrrr All this power saving stuff thats not adjustable and then they go have let the backlight turn on when you press a button when HOLD is on! Thats more of a battery waster than anything. Same with it shutting down and starting it up all the time because it wont stay on idle for a while.

Nice work, finally someone is making progress with sony devices. How do you save files? Or isn't that version uploaded yet. Has anyone been able to edit the firmware yet?