John Lindsay

Ah well.... Good things don't last long (apparently) You might think after transferring 4612 songs the previous day that adding another 2 would be no problem, however you'd be wrong. It simply wouldn't do it. I clicked the add button and left it and it didn't appear to respond or do anything, so I left it for a while about 10 or 15 minutes and came back. It still hadn't done the transfer. So I decided that I would cut my losses and disconnect the player then try restarting the computer. I went through the routine of "Safely Remove Hardware" and the player started to display " Creating Database" then came up with "No Songs. Connect compliant software and transfer songs" So I restarted my computer and re-opened Connect player. Connected my walkman after Initializing the disc, and it upated, realising that there were no songs it displayed in the transfer screen saying that I should select songs and click "add", I done so, selected all my songs as I have done in the past and as per usual it displayed the warning screen saying that it may take a long time to transfer these songs. I clicked yes and again it didn't appear to respond. So again I left it for about 10 or 15 minutes and returned to find that still nothing had happened, and so here I am (once again) appealing for your assistance. I mean... Is it something im doing wrong? Connect player appears to work fine now, untill you try to transfer songs to a player It plays fine, you can import tracks to Connect without problem, it's still a little slow to go between tracks when you are editing artist names etc, this, I can live with (for now) although it's not completely satisfactory, however I can't do without my walkman as a School Boy who walks an hour each way to and from school each day..... John

All appears to work well now, Thanks for all your help. John

I'm on Sony's new Vaio with An 1.86 Intel Centrino Processer and 1GB of ram also.. and as I say mines takes the best part of 10 minutes to open. Just putting on 1.0.04 just now so we'll see how that goes. John

About to completely lose the plot with this........ Tried transferring 3 downloaded songs from Connect, to my walkman. Done all three seperatley, it said Skipping "0" file failed to import on them all but I've seen that before. The songs went into the library, classed as ready for export, then I said safely remove hardware and done so. On my walkman it said No database found, please connect compliant software. Sony are getting on my tits, they need to sort this out, are they aware that there must be millions of unhappy customers? My friend has an Ipod and he never has any bother with it, Sony will be losing revenue aswell........ John

Thanks all, I will try disabling the Artist Link feature in the mean time. Hope it works, because as I say, the software if the only thing which hampers this walkman. granbajo, how long does it take for Connect player to open on your machine?? I will click to open it now and post back as soon as it fully opens. John Connect Player is now open. 7 minutes to open a program ............. I opened window's task manager to check whilst opening Connect player, and my CPU usage graph jumps from around 4% instantly to 100% and stays solid untill it opens. John

This is me, drunk at a school disco lol

Hi Guys, New to the forum, so sorry if I'm re-posting the same topic that has already been posted. Basically I'm pretty peed off with my connect player software. I'll give you the story... then you'll understand where I'm coming from and may be able to help me. Once upon a time, I had the Sony NW-HD3, using Sonicstage, and was really happy with the way it all worked, the software was perfect, as was the Walkman. Then my younger brother got the NW-A1000 as a gift and used sonicstage to transfer songs to it, again, all was well and I was happy with how it was going. By this point I had built up my Library from all my CD's and had around 4000 songs on my Sonicstage Program and It was perfectly stable and I suffered no problems with the program crashing or anything of the sort. Then I broke my NW-HD3 and it's away back for repair (now on it's second time as they didn't sort the problem first time) however that's another rant... I've now got an NW-A3000, the unit is the finest Walkman/MP3 player on the market, however Connect player lets the side down greatly. Firstly I followed the instructions on transferring from Sonicstage to Connect. It all appeared to work well to start with. And then problems started to occurr as more and more songs were on it. I now have 4800 songs in Connect player, but it once came on the screen saying that the playlist would have to be reformatted (or something along those lines, it took all the songs out and put them back in again anyway) So, after battling to get Connect player to actually transfer all the songs to my walkman (eventually had to do them 100 at a time) I'm finding some serious problems with using it. Now when I download a song and import it to Connect player it sometimes works, sometimes not, and then when trying to transfer that song to my walkman it displays on the information bar in the bottom right of the screen " Skipping - File Failed To Import" and yet sometimes the song is actually transferred to my walkman. When opening Connect Player I'm also having problems, the last few times I've tried shutting down and restarting computer to ensure that it's not because I'm running too many programs etc and the computer can't cope with it (even though I severely doubt it since this is the New Sony Vaio we got at Christmas) however, opening Connect Player from a newly restarted computer takes around 15 minutes, it seems to take an insane amount of time "Initializing Library" These are not my only problems, doing virtually anything, renaming songs is a nightmare as it takes forever to select the song, then after re typing the correct artist info etc, it takes another very long time to do anything after that, always has the cursor with the egg timer displayed. One thing I'm wondering about is in the bottom corner it always appears to be updating artist links and always has been, could this be what is causing it to run slowly? Somehow I don't think so. I phoned the number on the Sony Website, and helf to speak to an operator who didn't for a start appear to want to take the time to listen to my problem, and then appeared to be able to offer me very little help other than to revert back to Sonicstage. I don't particularly want to do this though as some if you will know I will then lose some functions on my walkman. We have always had Sony stuff in the House, Stereo's, Televisions, DVD Players/Recorders VHS Players, Hi8 Players, Minidisc Systems, Camcorders the car is fully kitted out with a Sony X-Plod Stereo System, Amps, speakers, sub-woofer and head unit all made by Sony..... the list goes on, we have always had great faith and belief in Sony's equipment and have had very little trouble with it, which makes me think that Sony have drafted the production of Connect Player out to some-one else who to be fair has made a balls up of it. Given that Sonicstage was so good. Any help appreciated, I know I'm not the only one having problems with it. John