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I guess having eight gigs of music isn't sufficient enough for a remote jack to be built into the player. *shrugs*

I won't be buying one. xD Now that you guys mention it, it does look like a lipstick . . . I guess it didn't spring to my mind 'cause I don't use lipstick, but instead use lip balm or lip gloss.

Looks too much like a USB flash drive to me. O_O

The SL version isn't sold here in Australia. O_O

Sure. It started at the end of 2002, when my parents bought me a portable CD player for my birthday. My mum didn't like the way the lid worked (it sprang up half-openedl; you had to lift the lid after), so she got me to return it, and bought a Sony CD Walkman. xD I've dropped it heaps of times, but it still works perfectly. Minus the battery cover, which unfortunately got lost somewhere in the beginning of 2005. >.< So that meant my batteries kept falling out of the back. They just had to put the batteries inside the Walkman in the next model. " But it wasn't long before I got a new Walkman - one that could fit in my pocket (no more carrying bags!), could hold lots of songs (no more carrying CDs!), that could connect to my new-at-the-time laptop, and had a built-in battery. xD The NW-HD1 cost AUD$600, but it was on sale for $500. And I got a free pair of JVC earphones worth $25, because they were having some sport voucher promotion thingyo, but I didn't want the voucher. A week later, I went back and swapped for a new NW-HD1 (I accidentally dropped it and the screen got all dusty, but I used another excuse). About six months later, the earphones that came with the NW-HD1 broke. >.< My cousin told me that I could swap them, since it was under warranty. (She could have told me this before when the earphones that came with my CD Walkman broke six months after. ") So back to the shop I went. Since I saw that they were still selling the NW-HD1 in a catalogue, I tried to see if I could get a new one with the MP3 upgrade (the excuse being sucky battery life xD). Unfortunately, they didn't have any. They however did one NW-HD5. I liked the specifications (particularly the playlists) but it was red. Not black. Not silver. But RED. And it was the only one they had. I thought it looked ugly in red. The salesman seemed to agree, 'cause he recommended that I keep the NW-HD1, as it looked better. So in the end, I walked away with the earphones from the NW-HD5 to replace the broken ones with my NW-HD1. But they broke a year later. >.< My earphones history! xD I've only used cheap earphones, until I borrowed my friend's Sony noise-cancelling earphones, which I liked. Unfortunately, I had to give them back. But a few months later, my cousin came back from America with the MDR-EX51s I asked her to buy for me. The bad thing was that they were white and pink - the only colour they had in stock. " Anyway, here's a list of all the earphones I've broken, in chronological order: - the ones that came with my CD Walkman (six months) - these cheap Philips earphones (two weeks - hopeless) - Sony MDR-E818 (can't remember - about three months, I think) - Sony MDR-E828 (about two months) - fake Sonys with the left earphone being on the long cord (didn't last very long, and didn't sound that good ) - slightly more expensive Philips earphones (lasted about two months or something; I think my friend accidentally broke them while tugging on them to talk to me) - the ones I got with my NW-HD1 (six months) - the replacement ones from the NW-HD5 (a year) - my friend's earphones that she got with her CD Walkman (I was testing whether her Creative flash MP3 player was really skip-proof or not xD) The current earphones I have: - the JVC ones mentioned before (except that I lent them to my friend, and now we're out of school, and she hasn't returned them. O_O Oh well, she can have them. I didn't like them much, and they were for free. xD) - second pair of MDR-E818 given on my birthday by a friend of mine two years ago - second pair of the earphones I got with my NW-HD1 (MDR-E737) - the MDR-EX51s mentioned before. So much for a short history.

As of next month, my NW-HD1 will be two years old. My CD Walkman still works - it's four years old.

My portable audio history is very short. The same can't be said for my earphone history, though. xD

On my NW-HD1, it doesn't have a playlist function. It has the Bookmarks function, though. If I want to delete a song from the Bookmarks list, I hold the down button until a 'Off' sign with the bookmark icon pops up.

I guess it was the way they were recorded originally.

You have to use either SonicStage or Connect to get your music onto your NW-A3000. You can't drag and drop.

There is, but I'm not sure that it will work, seeing that your girlfriend can't play them. In order to get rid of the DRM, all you have to do is convert the song again - same bitrate and everything - but uncheck the copy protection at the bottom of the pop-up box. Try and see if that will work with your girlfriend's unplayable files.

Clean the inside of the headphone jack?

I think (I don't have one, so I can't say for sure), that if you stop the song you're playing, and do nothing, it will turn off within a preset time e.g. thirty seconds. The guy probably said that he couldn't turn off the player 'cause he couldn't find a 'off' button, or didn't read the manual properly. *shrugs*

I'm not sure if the player itself has a playlist function, but SonicStage (its software) does.

You can find the details of the volume hack here: http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=33

I'm pretty sure you can upload them to the computer. What good is having the ability to record things if you can only store them on the player?

They have a new version out, the MDR-NC22, which is smaller (the battery compartment) than the NC11A.

This thread should help: http://www.atraclife.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2538

Yeah - the SP's the short-cord version so that you can use it with a remote, and the LP version's the long-cord version.

Yeah, I think the moral of this story is 'Research before you buy'. I did, when it came to buying my Walkman. It does suck though, that Sony and Sony Ericsson devices aren't very compatible.

I don't think so, no (for the firmware). It takes ages for SonicStage to do a convert-and-transfer, so what you could do is to convert them into 256kbps first, then transfer to the NW-HD5. As for stopping artists, no idea. I just leave the forty artists who make up a Ministry of Sound compliation as is. xD

In order to get rid of your DRM from your ATRAC files, just convert them again, but uncheck the copy protect box. But seeing that you have 5500 songs, it might be easier to re-rip them. O.O

I don't think there's anything you can do except to initialise your friend's MP3 Player. What model number is it?

It's only transferring them at 64kbps because your NW-HD5 can't support 320kbps. You can change it so that if the bitrate's not compatible, it will transfer at 256kbps. You can do this under Tools>Options>Transfer>Click on ATRAC Audio Device>Transfer Settings>Select specified bit rate transfer mode>Select 256kbps under the drop down box, then click OK.

Firmware isn't going to make your Walkman louder.