This is probably a rant but anyways.... My SS experince goes a little something like this. I buy an MD. It comes with SS 1.3, it doesn't work, crashes constantly. I look on the internet for a newer version of SS. I find one. I download and it works fine. I notice that SS 2 has been released. I download. SS no longer lets me transfer songs ot my MD, it crashes. A newer version of SS 2 comes out. I download it, it works. I had to reformat my computer. I download SS again. It doesn't work, crashes constantly. I find a newer version. It works. I buy a new computer, download SS 3.1. It crashes everytime I try to play a file. Anyone notice a pattern here? Anyways I hate sonic stage, it is a horrible program. I am not i the market for a new portable audio device as my MD player has been rendered useless thanks to sonys inept programming skills. PS don't reply asking for details on my problem so you can fix it, because frankly I don't care it will just end up causing me more trouble in the future, I am done with SS.