bergmarmot

Hi Otiasj, it is almost a year ago since the latest release of the winamp plug-in, which by the way works perfectly. Nevertheless there is still space for improvements and for me that is the option to play the transferred MP3's within winamp itself. Currently the files (or the header) seems not to be exaclty as they should be and therefore can not be playbacked. This is not an problem on the MP3 player (NW-HD5) as they can be playback, but in winamp this still is not possible. If you need help to get it programmed please it know to the community instead trying to get this solved all by yourself alone. Together we are stronger I am looking forward to a version that solved the aboved addressed issue. Kind regards, Bergmarmot

YEAH !!! It is not crashing anymore ;-)) you solved it!! Thanks mate!!

Otiasj, I just found out that the mp3's on the device causing the plugin to crash were transferred with SonicStage. I used another plugin before that was called "ml_sony_fortesting.zip". This plugin could handle these files. All otherplugins crashed with mp3's previously transferred with SonicStage. I hope you can use this info. Cheers mate

Aha, that is how drag&drop should work. I expected that I could select from my library and then drag&drop to the device. Same as how you can add to a playlist.

I found out how to use that playlist function. You just send a playlist to the device. This works too good because every song is diplayed double when the playlist is clicked. Other thing I wanted to ask you, how can I use the drag&drop function? I could not add songs that way yet. Thanks EDIT: Oops .... the songs were double in my play list, so this was not an error. BTW: when I send a play list twice it makes an new list beside the already existing instead updating the playlist on the device. Don't know what is better but just an observation.

Hi Otiasj, I attached the log file. Meanwhile I tried following: I renamed the OMGAUDIO folder to OMGAUDIO ORG and made a fresh folder. After this I could open WinAMP and access the walkman!! So he is having problems with reading the data already stored on the walkman. But ok, you will find the details in the log-file. Question, where can I find the playlist option? There is nothing in my screen pointing at this new feature. Could you please tell me how I can use this? Thanks for all your great work!! EDIT: Attement is not working ....

Hi Otiasj, I was looking forward to this release and as soon as I saw it was released I installed it. There is only one problem. It is crashing my winamp again. As soon as I select the device it crashes. Error: AppName: winamp.exe AppVer: 5.2.1.497 ModName: kernel32.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.1560 Offset: 0001a6d3 I hope you can use this info to solve the problem. If you need any further information then please dont hesitate to ask for it! Cheers

No Problem. Another obervation: I opened MP3FM and deleted the two tracks again. No I dragged and dropped the 2 track from MS Explorer. The track are added at the end of the Album. So, that is what also happens when the WinAMP is transferring the files I assume. Now the interesting part . You can drag and drop the transferred file (song) to another position in the album. This means MP3FM is able to rearrange the track nr. So I assume we need a procedure in the WinAMP Plugin that is re-arranging the track nr information of the edited albums based on track nr information available in the WinAMP database. NOTE: I moved in MP3FM the 1st file (song) in the middle of the album list. Then I opened SonicStage and saw that the same song was not on the Second place ?!? Closing SonicStage and Opening MP3FM again the file was on the position where I dropped it ! Checking the album on the device itself showed me the SonicStage Sequence, meaning that the song was on the second position and not on the position where I dropped it.

Hi Otiasj, I tried following: First I send a file from an album with track nr 2 Then pressed apply Second I send from the same album track nr 1 Then pressed apply After I unplugged the device and went into the album mode I saw the follwing sequence order: Track 2 Track 1 So as you already described, the trach order of an album is the order in which they were send! EDIT: I tried the same with SonicStage and this program is sending the track nr to the device. Means that sequence in device is based on Track nr and not on sending order

Yeah, it stopped crashing ....!!!! you're getting closer. Indead I have a lot of track with nr 999 .... but we are moving in the right direction EDIT: as additional info. track nr in general is screwed up. From the 1705 tracks on my device I only have 3 tracka with nr 1 Maybe this track numbering issue is also causing the crashing of SonicStage and also why GYM is not able to play the files transferred via WinAMP

I understand that the compatibility with sonicstage is not on you high priority list. On the onther hand people that already have put music on their device don't need to start from scratch as they have to do now. Only when you start from scratch you are able to use the plugin otherwise you have to continue with SonicStage. BTW: Thanks for the tip concening MP3FM. I freshly installed the program on my new device, copied all the music from older device, run the GYM KeyWizard and voila, now I have all my music on my second device without going trough the whole process . This device I put in my car and leave it there till I think it is time to change the music on it Cheers mate!! and keep on doing this fantastic work. You and the GYM programmer are our hero's :=)

Hi Otiasj, Congratulations!! I can now transfer the files to my device, the list are sorted correct and I can play the MP3 files on the device!!! There is only still one strange thing, accessing the device in SonicStage and trying to open the Artist still crashes SonicStage. Anyway, another step closer .....

Aha ok. Otiasj, I think I was to optimistic mentioning that the transferred files also played within WinAMP but this is not correct. I get the error message "Unable to Render the File" a well known error message. Good luck, slowly but surely you're getting closer ....

Hi nickzeff, for Device B I used WinAMP. BTW: The track on the device I also can not play ( On Device A I used SonicStage. I think the WinAMP Plugin is not properly Encoding the MP3 to OMA files. This causes that the file can not be played, that SonicStage can crash and as Stuge showed wrong or incomplete MP3 information (like bitrate is missing in his screenshot).

Hi maybe I have an interesting observation. I have 2 NW-HD5's (one I leave in the car, the other for other purposes). One device (A) is completely filled via SonicStage. If I try to open this device in WinAMP then WinAMP crashes. The other device ( was initialized and then manually created the OMGAUDIO folder with the database file. Accessing this decive in WinAMP is no problem. I transferred some MP3's then WinAMP crashed. Restarted WinAMP and could access device B again and even play the transferred songs. Now I open SonicStage. When I try to open a folder of an artist from device B then SonicStage crashes!!!! Device A can be read in SonicStage without any problem. We are facing obviously an compatiblity problem here. BTW: the artist, album and song lists are correctly diplayed on the deviced that used WinAMP for filetranfer ) Cheers mate Just tried GYM on device B, I could not play the MP3's !!! So within WinAMP is works but clearly not with SonicStage and GYM

Hi Otiasj, yes I send you the MP3 files and DAT files etc. I am now regeneration the keys with GYM and see what happens after this. If this is crashing then I will initialize the HDD and try again. If problem then still percists then I have to think harder on what I could do next. Cheers mate

I was looking forward to this update but unfortunately I still crashes at WinAMP start up. Get the same message as wytefyre posted. I already reinstalled WinAMP, but as soon as I at the DLL and connect the NW-HD5 it crashes ( Any idea?

mmmm... now WinAmp keeps on crashing when the Network Walkman is connected. I copy paste the error signature : AppName: winamp.exe AppVer: 5.2.1.497 ModName: ml_sony.dll ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 0000b69e The older DLL (17/94/2006) is working, but is messing up my artis and album list even worse ( I hope you can use this information?

I tried the newest plugin (19/04/2006) with WinAmp 5.21 but it still is messing up my artist and album list. Both are not sorted anymore in the device menu (. This is quiet big issue when you have big lists because you will not be able to find your music anymore. I also had the impression that the word "The" in the album list is not taken for sorting. This means that "The best of ..." album can be found under "B" and not under "T". I hope this helps you for solving the problem. Thanks again for all your efforts !!!!!

... here I am again Ok I had some problems with the plugin I used at my computer at home. Now I am at work and will try to use the computer here to make some changes on my NW-HD5 and see how it will handle the artist list etc. I will post my findings lateron. Cheers

Concerning the playlist, that is great news!! As far as I rememeber I used the newest plugin. I will give it another try. Thanks for the link and I will continue from there ....

me again. WinAmp finished transferring all the files to the Network Walkman. Unfortunately this is not working fine on my device. Problems: - Only 2 Artists in the Artist List !!! - All albums (Eccept 1 album) were assigned to 1 artist - Album list is not sorted!! Random order Conclusion: Yes it does transfer the files but the tool is not able to manage the database on the NW-HD5 properly. -

o and uh another 2 wishes ..... 1 .Could you add the playlist functionality like in GYM.That would be great 2. Add "Genre" as a selection list like in iTunes and GYM. Then you easily can select all files from the same genre. Cheers!

Hi. I just installed the WinAmp plugin and it first scruwed up my artist list on my NW-HD5. So now I deleted all my songs from my Network Walkman and now I use WinAmp to copy new songs to the player. By doing this I miss two options that would be more than nice (at least one of them ) 1. Available Discspace (Also if new files are planned to be transferred ( labeled with + ) So how many GB's are free after the update. This would be very helpfull if disc is almost full. Then you know how much you still can transfer or how many files you have to delete to be able to transfer the new files. 2. Progess of the to be copied file(s) % and time. Then you know if you can watch a movie meanwhile I also want to take this opportunity to thank you for putting all your time and efforts into this fantastic tool. Sony should be deeply shamed by not offering a good peace of software themselves!! Keep on going this fantastic work!!