Bawbagg

I have the same problem. Can anyone feed a solution??

I called into a Sony store at the weekend, and asked some questions. They gave me a new helpline number for (what they said was) Sony Walkman. I just called them, and they confirmed that NW A3000 is not designed to playback while charging. They were surprised you could do this. I thought I was using Connect - however after discussion with helpline, I now found I'm using Sonicstage for Connect, which explains why my features don't work, and also explains why I've not really had any problems. I'll sit tight, and wait for the feature rich version of Sonicstage. That said, Connect must be really bad - because Sonicstage isn't very good at all. Thanks for your reply Ascariss, Cheers, BB

Whenever I plug my NW A300o into either the mains adapter, or a USB port it just displays the "Connecting" stuff, and won't respond to any buttons. Most importantly, I can't get it to play back. This is a real PITA for me - I travel a lot, and need to charge it in the evenings while in hotel rooms from my laptop. This means I'm unable to listen to it while charging. I've just got my NW A3000. I got it on an extended warranty replacement for a Rio Karma - which was a great little player, with simply a simply fantastic user interface. I love the sound quality on my NW A3000, and I love the battery life. I'll now make a list of the things that irritate me (all of which were present on my Karma): * Can't listen while charging * Slightly slow interface (Accessing.......) * Slow to advance to next track (c'mon guys - why not cache the last and next tracks??) * Artist link doesn't work "Compliant software......" * Star rating doesn't work "Compliant software" * No scroll wheel for flicking through artists * Doesn't automatically strip "The" from Artist names And lots more niggles. Don't get me wrong, I'm really pleased with it - it looks great, sounds great, has a great battery life, and (most importantly) it isn't an iSheep. It's just that it could be sooooo much better. I'd really appreciate if anyone could help on the listen while charging thing. Cheers, BB