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The hole is for using a remote, the manual is on this site, not very difficult to find. Dunno about the Good Day thing.

Sounds like a dutch or maybe german name..

They paid the owners of the houses monthly, so I don't see the problem.

That topic is about creaking, not about dust.

Don't try to edit your tags and play music with Connect, just use it for transferring, it does a decent job at that (slow though).

I was wondering if any of you guys are experiencing the same problem as me: dust building up under the top layer of the NW-A3000. I keep it in a case all the time and I've never dropped it but if I press the lower part of the front it creaks, and there's dust , mostly around the buttons, but also a bit on the screen already. I'm sure it's underneath the layer and i've got no idea on how to get it out. So who's having the same problem and/or does know what to do?

You should NOT drain Li-Ion batteries, they're different then Nimh in that respect.

Have you tried updating Connect before starting it? Mine has worked fine since I did that.

When I power up the player it indeed does this, but not only with VBR..

Looks like a flash game .

I never experienced this lockup with my A3000, Connect works fine (but slow), and I don't use playlists (and I absolutely wouldn't need to be able to sort on artist within a playlist :S) , so I love my Walkman , it's UI is much better then the iPod's, although I do miss the clickwheel.

The A3000 does have a user-replaceable battery.

I believe only the silver ones crack (as weird as that may sound).

I suppose this doesn't work if you didn't tag the year and genre of the song properly?

SonicStage works fine, I don't understand all the fuss about it (Connect doesn't work), what is easier then dragging your music to the library, go to the transfer screen and just pick what albums you want to put on it or have it done automatically?