psmith

I-pods have always been about the image, the minute it appeared in a 50 cent video the "kids" were not going to buy anything else. Whether the product is any good is not a factor to the sort of person i-pods are marketed to, as long as heat magazine say they are good and Eminem, Bono and Jade from big brother are using them - the masses are buying them. The same can be said for Sony playstations, the first console it was acceptable for a "grown-up" to have, even the girlies like them. I was praying for sony to fight back with the NW-A series and as i opened the box on christmas day my first thoughts were "game on", then i installed "connect" and all the good work sony had put in was wasted (anyone else experience this)?, how can you have something so beautiful and ugly in the same box? Unfortunately Sony really dropped the ball on this one, unless they resolve the problems and make drastic changes to the connect software (allow mp3's to be "dragged and dropped" or windows media/other software compatability as a good will gesture) they are fighting a losing battle, i feel sad saying this as the machines are perfect, but they are on a downward spiral and are going to start losing loyal customers if they don't get their house in order.

Thank you, i will give it a go.

Hello, i was wondering if anybody knows if it is safe to use the mains charger from my NW-A3000 to charge my NW-E507. The charger comes in two parts, the first part has a mains plug (3 pin UK socket) on one end an a USB port on the other, the second part has a USB socket on one end and on the other is a connector for the NW-A3000, i would like to know if i can connect my USB lead for the NW-E507 into the first part of the charger and charge it from the mains. I don't understand power ratings etc and i would not want to damage the player/charger but i would like to hear if anybody else has tried this and what the outcome was - thanks.

Hello, new to these posts, its nice to find out i am not the only person having problems with the connect software, for some reason mine seems to try to access my floppy drives (A & for a couple of minutes before it loads. Anyway, i was wondering if somebody can help me understand the way sonys hardware deals with MP3s, i have a NW-A3000 and i have installed the connect software and added a couple of MP3s to the library, i then connect the device and go in to the preferences and select file format and this is where it all goes wrong... Seeing as the device is marketed and sold as a MP3 player i assumed that it would give me the option to change the "preferred file format on device" to MP3, but it won't, i can only select ATRAC3 or ATRAC3plus. I have told it not to convert the files if they are compatable but when it transfers the files to the device it gives them a .OMG extension, i assume it is not converting the files from MP3 but it is renaming them for the benifit of the devices software. What i want is for the device to leave the file extension alone. I don't want to get into the advantages/disadvantages of file formats, i want to transfer my music to the device as MP3s. Is this possible? Am i doing something wrong? I have downloaded the latest version of the software, but to no avail. If anyone can advise me i would be grateful - thanks