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Jadeclaw: Thank you for the info. I changed all the atrac files in my vaio to be 256 and everything works fine now.

I had the same problem and I had to re import all my cds, but my player is a vaio pocket. I found something else, I imported my cds using the lossless option with 256 and then I transferred the songs using the atrac format 352kbps. The sound is ok, but the songs in the vaio skips if I start browsing other songs or options in the player. This does not happen with any of the mp3s I have in the vaio pocket. Am I suppossed to use only atrac 256 to avaid the problem? Is there a lot of difference on sound between 256 and 352? what about 320? Does this bitrateeven work with the vaio pocket? what about 320?

Ishi: I found a new problem now. My vaio pocket does not play any of the atrac files. All of them were ripped from cds to 256 atrac with no drm. The mp3s are just fine, but if I try to play the atrac files it freezes and I had to do a soft restart many times. I also tried connecting the pocket to SS3.3 and I was able to play the atrac files from the vaio using the sonicstage. I tried deleting those specific files from the pocket and re transfer the songs from the library , but I received a message from SS3.3 saying that it is not possible to transfer my atrac files from the library to the vaio. It only lets me do it when I transfer my mp3s but not with my old atrac with no drm in it. Is Sony trying to take the control back and take the no drm option from us one more time?? I really don't understand why is so easy to transfer mp3s but not my atrac with no drm! Do I have to re encode all my cds? . Please help!!!!!!!!

Ishi: You are right. I don't have all the songs in my library anymore. I was not able to transfer all the songs back to my library, because half of them are mp3s and SS3.3 was not able to play them back. I t was looking for a license on internet or something like that. The good news is that I was able to go around and initialiaze without loosing any song. Here is what I did: 1) I copied the file OMGAUDIO from the vaio pocket to my desktop. 2) I opened SS3.3. I received the message to initialize or delete all songs in my vaio to be able to use SS3.3. Went to Control, Device/Media and pick the option Delete all tracks. 3) SS3.3 was able to recognize my player (vaio pocket) after deleting the files. I closed the SS3.3 program. 4) I replaced the OMGAUDIO file in my vaio pocket with the one I had in my desktop. 5) I opened the SS3.3 again and all the sogs were back under the Atrac Audio Device section. 6) I was able to transfer files from the library to the vaio pocket for testing purposes after that. My player it is now recognized by SS3 and I didn't have to loose any of my songs. Copying files from the vaio to the dektop and viceversa it may take sometime (more than 10 minutes each way for 15GB in my case). Hope all this makes sense. Thank you for all your help!!!!!!!!!

Ishi: All my files were created using the same laptop with the not drm option using sonicstage 3.2 . Is that going to make a difference if I try option number 2? Sorry if this was discussed before.

Well, unfortunately it didn't work. Thank you for your help Ishiyoshi!! It was not able to recognize my vaio pocket with either version, so unless somebody has a different suggestion I will go with option 2 for now. Let's hope this works!

Thank you ! I will try this and report back to the forum. Do I have to uninstall the version 3.3 before all this?????

I follwed the instructions, but it didn't work. Sonicstage 3.3 is asking me to re initialize my vaio pocket. I read that people that was going from the 3.2 japanese version to 3.3 didn't have any problems. 1)Should I downgrade to 3.2 japanese version? If so, do I have to uninstall 3.3 first? Where can I find the 3.2 japanese version? 2) Can I connect my vaio pocket to my laptop, copy everything that is in the E removable drive into my laptop, delete the info from my vaio pocket, connect using 3.3 and put all info back from my laptop to the vaio dropping all original files into the E removable drive? Did somebody try this? 3) Any other solutions? (Should I just uninstall 3.3 and stay with 3.2 forever?, it is going to recognize my vaio pocket again if I downgrade to 3.2) Please help!!!!!

What do you mean they don't work? I use atrac plus and they work just fine. This is not an automatic process, after converting your files you have to add the lyrics to the song using sonicstage, and then transfer the song to your vaio. I usually search the Internet for the lyrics, paste the info into song (right click the name of the song, click on properties and there is a tab for lyrics) and transfer the song. Please let me know if you need more directions. I'll be more than glad to help you out with this.

Damage: Thank you for the info. Do you have any more details about the differences in sound between the EX51s and the HJE50s?

What about the EX51s? For some reason I see those all over the place lately and they are around $30.

:ol_biggrin:I just got my Vaio today and I’m really impressed. I still have to learn a lot about it, but I like what I see so far. The best think is that I paid only $212.50 on ebay and the seller lives in the same city, so I didn’t even have to pay for shipping!!!!!!. OK, no let’s get back to work; we have a lot to do to fill the 40GB with music and pics.

Thank you, thank you , thank you , thank you

So, this won't work if I transferred the files with SonicStage? Sorry if I'm repeating myself here, but I just want to make sure I understand. The file transferred to the Vaio pocket to be played wit the Vaio pocket cannot be played back in the computer? Is this also true for the non DRM files created with the new SS3.2? I promise I won't ask about this anymore.

Ishiyoshi: Question, Is it possible to play with your computer the files that are in your vaio? Not transferring the files, but just playing the music using your computer.

My order from ecost was canceled. They don't have the Vaio pocket anymore!!!!

You are right about the features, and we can add price and capacity on the top of that . I will buy the pocket from ecost today. Looks like Sony is listening to the customers lately (SonicStage 3.2 as an example), so hopefully they will give us an update sometime. Thank you again for all yourr help!!!!!!

Thank you for doing this!!! I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed about the results. I guess the only way to change this is with a firmware update, but somebody told me that Sony wouldn’t make any changes for this player anymore. Is this true??? Now I'm not sure about buying this player. I will take a decision this week. Thank you again for the test

Ishiyoshi: Any update/confirmation on the ability to transfer atrac with no DRM into the vaio pocket and back to any other computer? I'm just waiting for this to buy te Vaio today if is possible. Thank you!!!

Hi, by mistake I posted this at the mini disc forum, and I was asked to move the questions here instead: "Quick question for Vaio pocket users. If I use SS 3.2 to create mp3 files or atrac files with no DRM, drop them into the Vaio using the SS 3.2 software (or the Vaio transfer software), Can I transfer them to any computer after that??? Only to a computer using SS3.2???? or the Vaio pocket itself will add the DRM making impossible to transfer the info to the 3 computers I have at home. I don't want to use the Vaio as a external drive to transfer the info and have the same files with DRM to listen to them, it kills the whole point of having 40 GB of space. Thank you in advance for your response. "