Chris J

Do you think higher capacity players like this will be released? 8GB is a big step down from my 20GB Walkman, and is very low considering the iPod Video has 80GB, which is also a flash player :s I love Walkman's, but when you have an iPod Video right there with 80gb for around the same price, it's difficult to choose which I'd prefer, quality over quantity!

What button do you press to turn the Walkman on? If you press the Play button, the first song will start playing on start-up... I press the Option button to turn it on which solves this problem

It's now 7 months on and my EX71's are still going strong after continuous use! No sign of the cable melting or splitting. Maybe Sony changed the material used on the cables??

I won't be giving up the Connect Player until an Automatic Synch feature is added to SonicStage, so my Walkman's library is always identical to my PC library which Connect handles really well

Wow, yours sounds pretty bad. The worst I have is that in the bottom left on the back, the back cover has become sort of unstuck so there's less than 1/4mm space between the curvy metal bit and the back cover. Not a big deal at all really, just makes a vibration sound when harshly putting it onto a hard surface. I've had my NWA3000 since December '05 and dropped it onto concrete twice from a height of maybe a metre, so I'm actually pretty impressed that with the weight of it and the way it's been dropped, that its only been damaged in this way. I have lots of tiny scratches on the front but you can only see them if you inspect it closely.

I also got mine from Amazon.co.uk

Yeah, the Sony logo has replaced the CONNECT logo, so I guess the CONNECY Player really is being abandoned.

Exactly.. if you use the method I said above, it will play it in the correct order: CD 1 (track 1-15), then CD 2 (track 16-30).

I'll only move over to SonicStage when they implement the ability to synchronise the library with the Walkman like CP does. So pleeeease Sony, can we have synchronisation back please!? Having said that, I still prefer CP's layout. It's much more uniform and the device view isn't available in SonicStage unless you go through Transfer. And I don't like having to go through the annoying dropdown menu when I want to choose where to get music from. I much prefer the menu on the left of CP which has Library, CD's, Store, Devices and Playlist included...

I only have one double album but what I do is number all the tracks correctly (1 - 15) for CD1, and then for CD2 start from number 16 instead of number 1 - simple! The player doesn't display the track numbers anyway.

I have installed SonicStage CP and thought I'd give it a go. I sort of assumed I'd stick with it but kept CONNECT just in case anyway. I plugged my NWA-3000 in and let it do the Auto Transfer, and of course I ended up with duplicates from what my CONNECT player put on there, so I just wiped the Walkman and started fresh. All transfered well. And then I found out something sort of annoying. I made a few changes in the Library and deleted a few things, but nothing changed on my Walkman. The deleted tracks were still in there, and clicking Auto Transfer did nothing. So, do I really have to change both the Library AND the Walkman to keep both the same? I love the Synchronise feature in CONNECT Player where it keeps the Library and Walkman identical. If there is no such feature in SonicStage CP I may have to go back to CONNECT...

EDIT: decided to make a new thread for my question...

I've upgraded to the new WMP (which has the Vista theme to it), I had Connect Player open to update my Walkman, plugged the Walkman (NWA-3000) in and Media Player started synchronising my "Library" to the Walkman!? So now I had a folder called "Music" on my player with my useless MP3's in it! Now, if someone could make a mod similar to the Winamp plugin for WMP... hehe. I now can't work out how to remove the Walkman from the device list in WMP!

Just to let you know, I decided to buy MDR-EX71's from Amazon UK. I saw them in HMV for £40 and couldn't be bothered to pay that much, then saw them on Amazon for £25. Brill! Have to say I am extremely impressed with them so far! Just waiting for the cable to start splitting/melting apparently hehe.

Hehe, I'm clearly not an audiophile then LOL. I was only basing my opinion on the earphones I've used, which are all stock buds, and of all the ones I've heard, the E808's have been amazing hehe. I guess all my other stock buds have been totally dreadful then! Thanks for your suggestions guys! I'll check them out