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there is no other workaround unless there is new firmware (doubtfull). u just have to label it to the YYYYMMDD_xxx format. that is the only way at this point.

http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=82 her'es a link to the topic about transferring pictures and stuff.

so yea i declare myself a retard. i totally did not think about pushing the bar in to keep the dock in place. the whole time i thought it just folds down and locks in place. yes the retard i am. thank goodness there's a forum like this to keep me in check. hehe

hey does u guys cradle not stand up all the time. mine u have to very careful cuz if u touch it one bit the player's weight just pushes the cradle over. i think i have a defective handle on this cradle. its gets annoying.

i saw but it seems like the teh comp geeks one is refurb.

http://shopper.cnet.com/Sony_VAIO_Pocket_D...9-31107442.html here's a list of all the companies that are selling it and it looks like tiger direct is the cheapest.

just a noob with a lot of questions. hehe

ok i just got it to work. sweet. it is exactly wat i thought it would do. if u put pics in the demo folder and while ur playing ur music and if ur not doing anything with the interface then a slideshow of the pics will come up. its pretty much like a screensaver when there's no interface activity going on. man im starting to love this player even more. u discover something new everyday. hehe.

so wat is demo mode really. does it just playback the music library randomly. is that all that it does. how come this answer was different from the other one. i look thru both pdfs and found nothing on it. what is wrong with sony with putting in features and not telling us how it works and how to use it. i dont get it at all.

update: so i found out that u dont need to change the date on the player or anything like that. when the player is connected to the comp u just have to transfer all the folders over and use the format YYYYMMDD_xxx and it reads it fine. im so lucky that, that was how i organize all my folders in the first place and the only difference was that i didnt have the _xxx part and had a description name there.

i dont get the whole demo mode thing. ur saying that when the player are in idle mode ie not playing music but still on, that the player itself will display a slideshow of pics that is in the demo mode folder? when i had it turned on, for some reason all it seems to do is automatically starts playing my music after about 10 seconds. it has never did this to me b4 until i turned demo mode to come on. is my player defective? i wouldnt mind putting in some random images to create my own slideshow in there. pls let me know more about this.

i guess with teh later folder name we are able to know the date of the transfered pics. so that means that unless there's a new firmware coming to get this bypass or whenever u transferred a certain dated folder one would have to change the ap1l's date to match the folder and then change it back when transfer is done. man that is gonna take me a good awhile to do now. its like id3 tagging my 20gbs of mp3's all over again. =(

sweet thanks ishi.

no that's not wat i mean. when u transfer photos to the computer u have to make teh folders a specific name for the ap1l to recognize it. ie. user_001, user_002 etc. so u can only change the numbers portion in the user_xxx part. i have tons of folders by date year month and description. its my way of keeping track of the pictures that i have taken. im trying to find a way that i can get the ap1l to recognize the ways my folders are setup. oh yea i guess if i reply enough eventually i get my own page. hehe

ok i just tried changing the date on teh camera but the folder now gives me the same folder but now its _002. so i changed the date on the ap1l and tried it and it did in fact changed the new folder to the date on teh ap1l. so its dependent on the ap1l's date no matter wat teh camera's date says.

ok i just tested transfering my data from my digicam (casio exilim ex-m2) i just threw some folders in the dcim folder. i then transfer it over to the ap1l. when finished wat it did was just basically use the default folder that casio itself sends out when it transfer it to another media. let me explain this a bit so its easier to comprehend. first when i first got my casio it had a program that u would have to install on the comp and whenever the casio is in its dock it'll recognizes and transfer all the pictures over. wat the casio does is that it dates and timestamps every picture and when it is being transfered it goes into its own folders respectively ie. year month and day. from there u can change it however u want. so when i transfered over to the ap1l it sort of did that but not really. in the casio there's only one folder in teh dcim folder xxx_101 soemthing like that. so when it transferred it did create a dated folder on teh ap1l. even tho i had tons of pics that was dated and timestamp with a span of several years and months it transferred over to only one folder. the folder was "20050802_001". that is which is todays date. i guess my conclusion here is that when u transferred anyover to the ap1l it just takes the date of the digicam and uses watever the cam folder output setting is and transferred it. my guess is to go around this situation. like if i take the digicam and change the date on teh camera itself and then insert the same dated folder in there and transferred it over to the ap1l it would have the right dated folder in there. i dont know if this will work but it seems logical enough. i know it would be a pain in the ass to do it this way but im really anal on this stuff and i can't stand just seeing the user_001 folders in there with no way of knowing wat month or day it is b4 scrolling thru the pictures themselves. with this method at least i can see the date of when the folder was created. i wish i am able to do descriptions. well let me know if u guys can try this out with ur other digicams and wat the output folder is on the ap1l. if it gives a better description than mine i might try to find a friends camera and use it to transfer my photos. ps. i know this might be a hassle for some people but when i buy something i make sure its worth every penny and i try to take advantage of all the features that comes with the product. that's just how i am.

hmm i wonder if i can use like an external harddrive to transfer the already preset folders i've done. or just toss those folders in my digicam and do it that way. like i said b4 i have 2.5gbs in pics and about 75folders already dated and named. i really dont want to have to redo everything?

oh i dont know any japanese at all so converting to jap firmware and and trying to read the katakana would just suck for me. i guess im out of luck. hehe. do u think i can install the jap firmware to see if the folder thing work and then put back in the eng firmware?" i dont mind being a guinea pig to see if the folder option works or not.

i have a question about the jap firmware. i have about 2.5gbs of pics and they are order by date in their respective folders. i tried every type of way to bypass the user_001 folder with the english firmware to no avail. i even tried to put another user_001 folder within a user_001 folder. but it does ntoihng. so are u saying that the jap version lets u do that where u can view folders within folders using the user_001 method or are u saying it just uses the folder names that u upload in the vaio? if the latter, i will for sure update witht eh jap version. also if i update with the jap version and use the english language, is there any difference compare to the eng version eng lang? also i hope there is a new firmware update to get rid of the album grouping issue. it worked fine with the hd3 but when i switch over to my ap1l it just group all my singles song that i group as album singles together. really annoying little bugger.