Hi folks, hoping you can help out with this. Firstly is there any alternative software out there that I can SIMPLY downlaod music to the MD. Its a Sony net md MZ-N5012? Sonic stage I just dumped as I could not do anything with it...can't remember the hassles but so many I couldn't be bothered now but I found that Real player was easy. I had to uninstall realplayer and re-install it but now I can't connect again? OK its plugged in and saying PC>>MD so thats connected... opened realplayer and did loads of help stuff trying to get it connected and it tells me I needed to download openMD which I did, then add device, which I did, and downloaded the plug-in, restarted, but still won't recognise the player. Any clues to where I'm missing something? Any help much appreciated! Cheers!