Hi, I am new , but i have been using SS for god knows how long, (since OPEN MG jukebox and the early years of MP3 players) my first was the SONY MS9 (i think it was called ) Getting to the point, i 'll just state some of the main reasons why i hate sonic stage: (notes that the following are my opinion) - it eats RAM - it takes ages to start - it's ugly - it's got lots of useless crap, eg. animated menus, connect/Mora shop - it don't support unicode (didn't for me anyways) - it does't like multi-language titles - Have to add to the library crap first Reasons why i am still using sonic stage: - There aren't many good alternatives