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Hi, I have just purchased the NW-A808 and find the bass response through the bundled phones quite astounding for a freebie. One thing I did find though is that it is really important how you fit the earphones into the ear canal. Initially, I must have fitted them properly, but the next day put phones on and turned on player and it sound like a completely different piece of kit, with little or no bass and mid ranges quite tinny. I remembered reading about the fitting of the phones being important, somewhere in another forum and after re-inserting deeper into the ear canal found the transormation amazing. So, I suppose what I'm trying to say is try re-fitting the phones, before splashing out on a new set of phones, you might just find it makes all the difference.

Hi Simon, Thanks for the useful info, makes sense when you put it like that. I hadn't really thought about how the play history was updated. By the way any idea whether artist link is supported on NW-A808, doesn't seem so and can't find any info on forums that I've visited? If ot I won't bother asking SS to find artist link data as takes some time to update each time.

Sorry, just another thought related to above. I am assuming that if I delete albums/tracks off the player, which cannot be transferred back to my library, that this will affect play count, track history, intelligent shuffle settings, as this information will not be transferred back to Sonicstage from the player in order to process this information and apply it to the player the next time it is connected?

I have tried various ways of transferring album art and like you have found the best way is to drag over the album art and apply to whole album. Will try again, I suppose it's just a quirk of the system, although very annoying. Presumably you mean delete the albums when in the transfer screen of SS and the player is connected as opposed to deleting the albums/tracks on the player istelf, which you can do on the NW-A808. I am assuming that by right clicking and deleting the album it does not remove it from your library-just the player? No I mean on the player itself. 12 albums has taken up 1.2 GB (all in 132kbps apart from a few albums which definitely went over in lossless format.) I'm sure this is where problem lies anyway. Sounds like the transfer problem is just something I'll have to live with until Sony deems to sort it. Unlike Simon, I can transfer normal ATRAC tracks back to the player just not lossless or 3 Plus. I'll see whether Sony respond to my email regarding this and will post any response. I suspect they will tell me to re-install SS, re-format player etc, but they may yet surprise me! Many thanks for the comments and advice.

Hi Juli, Thanks for the quick response. Strange one this, haven't read about this particular problem on other forums. Most of my library is in the ATRAC3 format and those files transfer back to the PC with no problems at all, it is just the ATRAC3 Plus files or ATRAC Advanced lossless tracks that are a problem. I've not changed the location for imported files as far as I am aware. I don't know whether it's anything to do with my recent upgrade to SS v4.3? It is a right royal pain in the arse though, as the only workaround, as you rightly point out is to delete the albums/tracks off the player. The other strange thing is that some of the demo tracks that came with the player transfer ok to my library, but some are stuck stubbornly on the player. The only reason that I mentioned re-ripping the CD's to ATRAC3 rather than 3Plus was to see whether this solved the transfer problem, as this is what I think the root cause of the problem is ( although technically don't have a clue as to why this should be). This is a bit restrictive though and doesn't offer the flexibility of importing with what is a superior codec when compared to standard ATRAC 3. I also experienced a bit of a glitch with artwork, although only on one album of approx 18 so far. The cover is displayed when viewing albums on the player, but is not displayed for each individual song. When I checked in SS, each track had album art displayed, so cannot understand what the issue is. I did note that the complitation box was ticked and am aware that this has caused some problems for other users. I also noticed that some tracks i this album had two lots of cover art stored for each track, albeit the same cover ( don't know how that one happened!) Do you know whether you can delete whole albums from the player in one go, or whether you have to delete each individual track? I also seem to be using up a lot of memory, compared to other ATRAC devices I have had in the past, but may just have to tinker with transfer settings. I think a few files have transferred over in lossless format, which will obviously take up more space. Once again, thanks for the response. I'll wait and see whether Sony Tech Support get back to me and post their response. Any further comments would be welcomed.

Hi, I'm new to this forum, but have viewed as a guest numerous times before. It's an absolute mine of information, but after days of researching this problem on this forum and others I havent seen any similar postings on my particular issue. I've just bought an NW-A808 and am finding it impossible to transfer albums and tracks back to my PC from the player. I am running SS v4.3 on a Packard bell PC, approx 3 years old. I am running Windows XP Home Edition o/s. 3.5ghz Intel Pentium processor with 1GB RAM and 200 GB hard drive. Unlike other transfer problems I have read about, I have received no error messages at all in Sonic Stage or on my player. I click the left red arrow on the transfer screen of SS to transfer albums back to the player; SS looks as if it is doing the business and then the tracks just sit there on the right hand side of the screen. They play fine on the player itself and the corresponding tracks on my PC also seem to play without a problem Most albums in my SS library have been imported directly from CD's and there are no useage rights with any of the affected tracks that I cnnot remove from the player. I've not restored my PC or used a different PC to import these CD's so for the life of me cannot figure out what the problem is. I think that I have narrowed down the problem to the codec that the original files were imported into my PC. All of the albums/tracks that will not transfer back to my player were transfered in either ATRAC3 Plus or ATRAC Advanced lossless. I have set various transfer options from PC to player including transferring in original file format; converting to ATRAC3 132kbps and other various bitrates, but the problem remains. I have had to format the player using the format option on the palyer's menu, which deleted all data and then started again as there was no other way to remove the albums from the player. Obviously all original tracks remained on my hard drive. This is a complete pain in the arse, as I have quite a few albums imported using ATRA3 Plus, for better quality. I suppose I could re-rip them converting to ATRAC3 rather than ATRAC3 Plus to see if that will work, but don't really need the hassle and is not the point. The ATRAC3 Plus thing may just be a coincidence, but the problem doesn't appear to arise when tracks originally imported in other codecs are transferred back to my PC. Is anyone out there aware of any known bugs with the NW-A808 or SS v4.3 which would lead to the above problem? I've emailed Sony technical support tonight ( don't know when they will respond, but judging by other comments on this forum and elsewhere, I won't hold my breath!!) Thinking of returning player to store as only bought a couple of weeks ago, but need to know that same thing won't happen again should I get a new player. The player itself is top draw, fantastic sound, streets ahead of the 2 GB nano it is replacing. I have been fortunate up until now that I haven't experienced any of the problems a lot of others have when using sonic stage. I have owned an NW-HD5 for years without any problems at all. Hears hoping someone can assist. many thanks in anticipation.