I've bought the player while i was in japan. the menu isnt that hard to get around through if you dont know japanese. any geek could figure it out. but luckily for me i do know japanese so it isnt that much of a problem for me. if you dont run a japanese os, then you cant run the software that comes with it. luckily for you, this site has a download for the asian pacific sonicstage which works completely fine. and yes im from Canada.