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Besides, you wouldn't want to delete them surely? They are really useful for creating a playlist on your device without having to connect the device to the connect player software. I often use the bookmarks on the move, if there are certain songs I want to listen to I quickly add them to a bookmark list and play them in the order I specified.

Hi, When I bought my new laptop and had Windows XP for the first time (XP Pro), I installed CP for the first time. I let it install to where it defaulted. I set up a new account for my partner as a limited user as don't want to give them administrator rights! He tried to open CP from his account and couldn't as he didn't have the rights to run the program. I logged back into my account and had a look at the program and the help says to move it to the sharded folder. So I dragged the 'Sony' folder which contains CP and CP autoupdates etc and it went mental and started trying to install something and do things, couldn't really work it out, so I can't really explain what it was doing but it was scarey! Then I couldn't open connect player at all and kept getting tinyhttp.exe errors. I then tried to move it all back and it didn't like that either. Eventually I managed to get it back to how it was. I think the problem may have been something to do with the connect autoupdate as I guess this was running in the background and maybe because I'd had CP open that day so soemthing was still running but that's a guess. Can anyone advise what I need to do to make this program shared? Do I just need to log on to my pc, close down the auto update by exiting it from the task tray and then move the program to the shared area? Should this work? Will I need to update shorctuts and stuff? Or is it a case of uninstalling CP and reinstalling it to the shared area? I'd rather not do that as I have everything right in my library and both our players synchronized etc! Cheers

Well I managed to and I was told you couldn't! I bought a new laptop which had no music on it at all. I connected both mine and my partners NWA3000 walkmans one at a time to the laptop and dragged and dropped all the files I had on the walkmans onto the pc. (The files had been put on the walkmans with SS). I then transported these into CP and intialised the walkmans, and put the files back on. The only thing that I had to sort out were all the files that had originally been mp3s. All the atrac files were fine, but the mp3s has become oma files with mp3 codecs which the player doesn't support. So I just imported the mp3s again which I had burnt onto cd from my old pc.

It's such a good looking walkman, I have a black one, but i'm scared of scratching it, so I bought the official SONY silicon cover for it. Annoyingly, you don't get any screen protectors which completely defeats the object, so I had to buy some (can buy in camera shops for LCD screen protection). Secondly, annoyingly the silicon case only comes in white. So the player now looks crap but is protected from knocks and scraps in my bag. The next 'stupid design' award goes to SONY for designing a silicon case that has cut outs for the volume, usb lead etc, only the charger/usb lead is too big for the gap left. So I have to take the cover off everytime I need to put the lead in it's bum!!!! I don't understand how such an idiotic mistake could be made. Did they not think to test it? Anyways, just seen on ebay can buy fake black silicon cases which come with screen protectors. So I think I'll fork out and get this so at least it will all be black and not black and white. If the hole isn't big enough, stanley knife time it is!

Oh, thank goodness for that!!!!! Reformatting the player isn't such a big deal. Yeah, I know, I don't really want an ipod as everyone has them, but when you have all these probs and everyone I know with an ipod is up and running in no time and have all their tracks on the ipod (plus all the accessories and support available etc), you start getting annoyed with SONY! I choose SONY because I like the quality, I thought it would have better sound than an ipod, it has excellent shuffle features and searching with initials and the battery life is excellent. Shame about the software really. Fingers crossed, I've finally got it sorted now and can enjoy my walkman at last. It has nearly got thrown out the window a few times!!!

Well, if I can't move all my atrac and mp3 files (by the time SS is properly updated and CP is no more it'll be about 600-700CDs) then I will demand a full refund from SONY for wasting my time and buy an IPOD. I'd have to re-rip everything again anyway because atracs won't play on IPODs but it's the principle of the thing. SONY can't expect to give us the run around like this. It's just not on. I bought 2 NWA3000s in good faith and have had nothing but hassle. Other people I know have bought 20-30GB mp3 players of various makes and within a few hours have it all up and running by simply dragging and dropping. I'm starting to wonder if battery life and shuffles are really worth it!

Show off! Actually not true! I just asked a load of people in my office what 5.89MB was in kilobytes and they said 5890kb! So Mr Joe Public doesn't know this. Hence there being help forums! Also if you divide 6038KB by 1024 (KB per MB) you don't get 5.89MB. You get 5.90MB because you'd have to round up (and the reverse, if you multiply 5.89 by 1024 you get 6032 kb). If Sony want to make statements about checking the file size is correct they should specify it in both kb and MB to save confusion and calls to their helpline! Anyways just posting this on here so others can read it if they had the same issue.

Good enough....although not all of us know to divide by 1024!!! They should put it in their instructions and make it clear for us non techy people, but Sony don't like to be helpful!!!!!!

Don't know if anyone else had this issue..... I downloaded the firmware v3 and the file size was not 6,038KB as stated. It was 5.89MB. I tried several times and the file size was never 6,038KB. The instructions tell you to try again if the file size isn't as stated. I tried from a different pc and the download file was still 5.89MB. So I thought, what the heck and installed it, and it all seems to have worked. Have Sony got this wrong (seems to be a theme here!) because try as I might the file is NOT 6,038KB!!!!!! Just wondered if anyone has had this?

No way!!! Having just got CP!!! LOL!!! So my next question is....when they bring out a new version of SS that does have sync and is quick to edit, will I be able to move all my files that are now in CP to SS?? Will I have to take everything off my walkman again and transfer the SS files back on????? Will it ever be straight forward??!!

Yes I copied my all my music directly from the both our walkmans to my new pc! I'd heard this couldn't be done but I thought I'd try it and it worked! I literally plugged my walkman in to the usb without CP or SS loaded, and just navigated to the drive and highlighted the .oma files that showed up in windows explorer. (well in 'my computer') and copied them into a new folder on my hard drive. The was only .oma files on the walkmans. I then, opened CP and imported all the files I'd saved in the folder on my hard drive into CP and then after editing some, connected my walkman and told it to sync. I didn't get any error messages when I first connected my walkman to CP full of SS files! As we know, the sync didn't work properly (prob due to the files on the walkman being from SS originally as you explained), so I initialised my walkman. Starting with a clean slate I transferred all the files in CP to my walkman, but it only accepted the files that had originally been atrac files. What you say above, makes sense to why it went wrong. I read the CP FAQ thread on this forum and it states that you can transfer oma files with an ATRAC codec, or MP3 files with a MPEG (MP3) codec. I'm guessing my issue was I had oma files with MP3 codecs, hence not a supported format. This could be clearly seen when I added a 'format' and 'codec' column to my library. (Although strangely the oma mp3s play and sound fine in CP!) So, last night I imported all my MP3s into my library and got rid of the ones that didn't work and sync'd my walkman and it worked!! The MP3s transferred this time and some of the other files that I'd amended did get updated on the Walkman. Horrah!!!!! Apart from 1 file, which is a track on an album from a CD I own. No idea why this one didn't transfer, it just says error and gives no explanation. I will re-import the album and try again. Strange though, that you're not supposed to be able to move files off your walkman onto a new pc. If it is any help or has anything to do with it, all the cds I had put on my walkman originally through SS, I had removed copy protection. Could this be the reason why it worked? Is this true that CP is obsolete? Have Sony officially announced that they are getting rid of CP?? I hope not, I've just got it working!!!! I realise that SS4 has the artist link and intelligent shuffles, however, for me I wanted to have the synchronisation. And I also find CP much quicker to edit. Although, it is a pain to change one at a time, it is still quicker than in SS. I would highlight an album in SS and change one thing e.g. genre or album name and it would take absolutely ages to do it. It seemed to take forever to update the original files on the pc. Whereas CP does it instantly. Fingers crossed that CP doesn't break on me as I start to import more music. I have about 600 CDs that I'm going to start to import!!

Thanks for advice... ok, here's an update and a couple more questions! I decided to try CP, purely because I wanted to be able to synchronize the library with the Walkman and editing in SS is so slow. (Not so bothered about editting artist links at this stage). All seemed to install and work fine... I plugged in both mine and my boyfriends NWA3000s and copied all the .oma files on the walkmans into a back-up folder on my new pc. I'm guessing that the walkman stores all files as .oma I then imported all the omas into the CP library and had all my songs present and correct. I then went through and spent hours editing the library, basically to put in missing years and change all the genres to make it a bit better to play genre shuffles, as gracenote tends to make genres far to narrow and I wanted it more general. I plugged in my NWA3000 and asked it to sync. It did something for a while, according to the toolbar it transferred some tracks, deleted some tracks, updated some tracks. But when it had finished, it hadn't updated the genres (not sure about years) and hadn't changed any spelling edits I had made. I'm hoping this isn't something wrong with sync, just the fact that the tracks on my walkman had been put there by Sonic Stage??? So I decided to initialise my walkman and start again. So I wiped it using the initialise disc. I transferred my library, which currently is only 1000 songs. It only transferred 540 of them and the rest transferred in black saying it was not a supported file format. Having looked through, there seems to be a pattern. All the files that had originally come from a cd and was converted to ATRAC3plus, had transferred onto the walkman with the new genres etc. However, all the files that had originally been MP3s hadn't. (I had put MP3s on my walkman from SS, rather than convert mp3s to ATRAC). Can someone confirm if this is just due to me extracting the mp3 files from the walkman onto my new pc??? If this is the case, should I be able to delete all the black unsupported files from both the walkman and the library, and then import all my mp3s (I have them burnt on discs) straight into the library?? Edit the years and genres (again!) and transfer them without problems?? Also, can someone tell me if the sync function works?? Having not used CP before, I want to clarify, if I edit something in the library, like the year and genre or a spelling mistake in the title, artist, album, will the sync update the file on the walkman???? (I'm not sure if the first sync I did didn't work due to the fact that it contained files transferred from SS rather than CP). Final question...has anyone else used CP sync with 2 walkmans?? Not sure what will happen with ratings, play history etc! Thanks

Hi, I'm stumped! I have been using SS since buying my NWA3000 purely because I had windows ME so CP was not compatible. I have been gradually putting CDs on and mp3s, in fact we have 2 NWA3000s in my house so there's two of us using it and we currently have SS3.4 Now I've just bought a lovely new laptop that has windows XP Pro and is a sony virgin!!! I was about to put CP on and give it a go for the first time and have now seen there is a release of SS4-CP. So what do I do? Which software should I use? The issue I have at the moment, is that all the stuff I have on both walkmans don't have the extra features like artist link or shuffles. Can I transfer the songs from the walkmans onto my new laptop into either SS4-CP or CP? Are we better off wiping both walkmans and starting again? Trouble is, I didn't keep all the cds I ripped to atrac so that would be annoying! All my mp3s are easy to re-do because I have them on disc and can move them on to my laptop. Are we better off trying CP because of the synchronisation? Are they going to scrap CP? Argh I confused! Advice please!!!! I just want to finally get some proper use out of these two walkmans.

Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before, search didn't really find anything! I currently have Windows ME and have been using SS3.4 (and previous versions) to put mp3s and atracs onto my NWA3000. I am about to buy a new laptop with Windows XP Pro on it. I have the following questions. 1. Should I go ahead and start using Connect? I couldn't on Windows ME but I can now. 2. All my files currently on my NWA3000, is it possible for me to transfer these into Connect from the walkman? (I've not kept all my cds in atrac format on my pc due to hard disc space, so this would save me re ripping them to atrac again). 3. Assuming I can transfer files from NWA3000 to connect, can I then edit the details so that I can put year and rating in (all the details that can't be used in SS3.4), then move these back onto my NWA3000 and be able to use the functions that didn't work like artist link and the shuffles?? Just want a heads up before I get this laptop.

Problem solved!!! In case anyone else searches for this issue, I'll post my solution.... For some reason the full installer won't work full-stop due to this issue with it not recognising that WMP version 9 is newer than version 7.1 still no idea why, but hey-ho! So I tried to download again from Sony and still couldn't get it to work. I then got rid of real download and was then able to save the file into the folder Sony tell you to create. However, I was still getting the same issue that when I double clicked it, it hangs trying to connect to sony server and then crashes my internet so I have to reboot to get internet to work again. So.....I disconnected my firewall (Zonealarm) and it worked!!!! So after all this, is was purely as issue with Sony Server Vs a firewall. Funny thing is, I had rang sony about my problem, and they did not once suggest to disable my firewall. Their download page didn't say to either. And for some reason my firewall didn't tell me they was a problem with a pop up of something trying to connect and giving me the choice to allow or disallow!! All strange, but I do at last have SS3.4!! Funnily enough, Sony are ringing me back within 48 hrs to help. Fat lot of use they were!! All they told me was to get rid of Real download, and that there must be a problem with Windows ME!