hp1975

Hi, All been a while since I posted. Anyway I have reverted back to 3.4 because 4.0 was painful, I also upgraded to latest version of firmware. However, everytime I connect the device to SS or just charge it from the USB it gets stuck on the building library screen and always after the 4th cube has appeared. If i press the reset button it will restart and then says 'repairing library', this sorts the problem. What can I do to sort this. Will a disk initialize help, is it a bug in the firmware? I dont want to have to reset my device everytime i have connected it to my PC! Thanks HP

Thanks guys. Stuge, you're right, I think what happens is that when it is updating the database (i guess with all the intelligent features) it hangs and then if you just leave it for a while it finally produces an error, and then the database is corrupted on the device, it shows no songs what soever. Very strange. Anwyay I think I'm gonna stick with 3.4 until an update for 4.0 is released.

I mean it, I thought 3.4 was spot on apart from the intelligent features not working. Now all I get i sproblems with 4.0 It keeps deleting the database Huge chunks of albums have just vanished when you connect it it just hangs amd then deletes the entire database...again....it sux Please can someone point me in the direction of 3.4, I dont really want to go back to a system restore point unless I have to. cheers HP

Ok problem solved, somehow....its trust level in zone Alarm had changed, I upped the trust level to the highest setting, and its fine. What I dont understand is why it would cause SS to be a resource hog and run slow? Ah well It works agains so I'm not gooing to argue...can install ss 4.0 CP with confidence now

Ummm only some Video editing software, dont think its related tho... i never run the programs at the same time. And I have had software from that company (ULEAD) on my pC for months and not been a problem before? Suppose I can try uninstall of both and then reload SS. Might be a good idea to sort ot before 4.0 comes out soon otherwise problem might persist.

No. I made sure it was just SS that was the problem so I run it by itself. Thats why I'm so confused, it was fine...now it isnt. I cant even connect my player because it takes about 10 minutes just to read the hard drive where before it took about a second! H

Hello, I have been quite smug since I got my A3000 because SS3.4 has been running so sweet, that was until FRiday. I booted it up as normal and it loads up just as quick but then it just uses all the CPU resource for minutes and minutes and the Memory usage just keeps going up! I think the highest it has been is over 200Meg of RAM which is of course rediculous. I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice and the second time I made sure I deleted the Son y registry keys as well as I have seen elsewhere in the forum. NO luck. I phoned Sony, they were no help, they said they had not come across this before. They said they would refer ot to there tech dep and drop me and email with some instructions. Nothing yet. I thought there might be somebody here who has experienced this? It appears to be only this software that makes the PC hang. My PC is home built: Athlon XP 2800 ASUS A700 -MX Mobo 512 Kingston RAM XP Pro SP2 Zone Alarm, Ad Aware etc Cant remember what Harddrives I have? Appreciate any ideas, advice etc Cheers HP

Mmm well I sent the first one back cos i thought it was a fault with the player. The second also does it so I'm assuming its justa characterisrtic of an HDD player which I have heard also effects other players. I am using Shure e2cs and ATRAC3+ 128kbps a combination that should not produce hiss, (and as iundertsand it speakers/headphones cannot generate their own hiss, only reproduce what the amplifier feeds them?) Anyway its only really noticeable at low volumes (<8) and in really quiet pieces of music, like quiet passages in classical music. HP

As I undertsand it features such as favourites and artist link wont work with SS but rumours are abound that SOny are producing a new version of SS that has all teh functionality of Connect. To be honest the these features dont bother me so I dont care that they dont work. SS 3.4 is quick and stable (10 albums takes me about 30 -40 mins to RIP at 128kbps and mere seconds to transfer to the device) soI'm sticking with it. The only thing I dont like about the a3000 is the annoying background hiss you can hear at low volumes. H

I dont understand all these 'problems' and re-formats with sonic stage? I have used 3.4 with my A3000 from day one and have not had one single problem. Its great, loads quickly, rips cds in a couple of minutes etc. OK I only use ATRAC and dont have an existing library of MP3 but so what? I also would rather see artist link etc added to SS than another update to the dodgy CP. Even if they dont I will stick with SS cos it works and who needs top 100 and artist link anyway..they're gimmikz! For what its worth. HP

You can download your songs from the connect store again by going into your profile and looking for 'my downloads' or something like that. There is an option to download again. I had to do this when I installed 3.3 for the first time and lost all the licences for my tracks. Tho when I upgraded to 3.4 I did not have the same problem.

NoOneHOme: I think you're list is spot on, particulalry the shuffle album, I rarely listen to just the odd song here and there, I like to listen to an album in its entirety. Surely some of these options must be possible with another firmware upgrade?

Sorry to drag this one up again! I got my player about 2 weeks ago and straight away noticed the hiss in quiet environements, i assumed it was a fault and sent it back receiving a replacement from Amazon withn 24 hours (nice one amazon), guess what....2nd player also has hiss, of course i'm using IEM headphones which will almost certainly exaggerate the hiss but its still annoying when listening to a quiet piece of classical in a quiet environment. Its frustrating after the beautiful silence of my old HIMD player ( HP

Thats just it! I dont think you can, the way the firmware in the player interprets the tags and builds the database will always be this way until they Sony change it. I dont think it matters how CP displays it.

Thanks Ishi, I had a play with CP over the weekend (not impressed), couldnt even connect to the support section of te Sony website to download latest update. Anyway regardless of what software is used as far as I can tell neither CP or SS will actually effect how mix CDs are displayed on the player itself i.e. when viewing by Artist it is still going to display all the individual artists or list it as Various Artists, neither of which are useful when searching for Gatecrasher, Sasha/Digweed, Dave Clarke etc because theese are the Artists I want to display. I think I will just have to put up with this unless future updates of SS remedy. HP