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Are you connected to the internet? Doing this allows you to use intelligent features. Otherwise, plug you MP3 in to your PC and let it update the player before you try and do anything or it will shit all over you, as you have just seen.

Well personally I don't think iPods are better devices. I have seen and used many MP3 players including the Creative Zen V:M. I can safely say my A3000 is much better than most players out there in the same range. iPods have crappy battery life, they cut corners on production and generally make cheap but nice looking (if you're a kid or a student) MP3 players. Creative is just another alternative to iPod but they crash a fair amount (from the 10 minutes I used a zen v: m it crashed twice ). Although Sony do need to buck up, and get serious, their current range is some of the best out there if you are just looking for something that will play music and do it well. Sure Sonicstage sucks ass, but if like me you've been using it for your Net MD for the past 5 or so years, you realise it's not really that big a deal. Just my thoughts

This has happened to me, but I think aznbro's explanation is correct. There's no bug or fault with the player or firmware, it's just the way it has been programmed to resume playback when your player is turned off mid-song. I think....

I would say maybe go to album view.... but maybe not. Play all songs by artist then just start from the first SnM track so it plays through both cd's? I have this album on mine, i'll try it later, see if I can find a way to do it.

Just use gmail - it filters out about 250 spam messages a week for me. Still.. i'd rather there weren't any at all

Well if you are near a Sony Centre I would take it there and ask them about this (although tbh I don't think the guys who work there will have a scoob about battery tech). The fact your battery continues to charge up after a full charge may be because the battery might employ a "trickle" charge - this means it will charge at a high current or voltage till it gets back up to 80% capacity, then it will slowly (much slower) continue charging up to 100%. I can't quite remember the reason why it does this but it's better for the battery or something. But this is just speculation, i'm not sure about the way these batteries work.

Well from what i've read draining the battery too much actually damages the life expectancy of your player. Since the battery is an Li-Ion battery, the peak time to discharge it is when it is at 40% capacity. Doing this will prolong the life of the battery before it starts deteriorating. It used to be with batteries that you needed to drain them fully to avoid the 'memory' affect, but this is not a problem with Li-Ion batteries - they prefer frequent charges over full discharge-recharge cycle. This is just what i've read, so please pick me up on any points that are wrong but this seems to be the general concensus on the web.

I agree with you there, mine is almost totally filled up and it barely made a difference. Although tbh it wasn't that sluggish to begin with. I think it stands to reason though: if you transfer files and delete, etc. all the time instead of putting all your music on in one go - its going to start running slowly (any hard drive would). Its best just to do it all in batch transfers.

I was just browsing my NW-A3000 the other day and the files that have been written to it are ATRAC files. This seems strange because I chose not to convert my music when transferring to save time. I was just wondering whether they actually are Mp3's on the player, or if they are ATRACs? Thanks

For the current price I would say the NW-A1200 is not worth it. However, if you're just after a small-medium sized HDD player then Creative is a good bet, or Cowon if you can get past the lame looks.

Anything that has a current through it, I would never trust to get wet. You should get the pouch for the NW-A3000, not very expensive and it will protect it from scratches, dust, water, etc.

Hey I'm just doing it just now so hopefully I will see a difference (although it wasn't especially slow before, I want it slicker ). Mr. Crowley - Install the program as you normally would any other program. Then proceed to load it up, just cancel all the boxes that ask you to buy it. Make sure your NW-A3000 is plugged in. It should show up as a hard drive in the main window (along with your other ones that you have in your PC). It will be the one that is 18, 637 MB (or something similar to that size). You then select it, and click the defragment button just below the list of hard drives. Then it proceeds to defrag very slowly so just leave it be for a few hours and when it is done, safely remove hardware as you normally would do and boom boom - you had an even slicker Walkman. Hope that helps - if you're still stuck just ask again and i'll try and be more clear

I bought my NW-A3000 2 1/2 weeks ago, and i'm very pleased with it. However, does anyone know if Sony are releasing any new players anytime soon? If so, I might be able to return my player, and just hold out till the new line comes out. Thanks

Some way to have the clock as a screen saver or something. The option to browse artists by one single letter instead of A-E or whatever others have. I must say i'm suprised to see so many people complaining about the NW-A series. I have the 3000 and it works fine for me, has not a single piece of dust in it, transferred 3500 songs in about 2 hours, all mp3. But I guess if you don't have any problems - there's no need to post, so you only read about the problem cases. Am I right? Or am I missing something? B

Tbh, I have found I can listen to it 3 days in a row at work so that amounts to about 18 hours in total, and it has never reached the flashing battery stage. My settings are no EQ (the biggest difference I found), brightness at 50% and about 3600 songs all at variable mp3 bitrate from 128kbps -> 328kbps. I also have the screensaver turned off and the 15s delay on.

1) As far as i'm aware the only other differences are size (obviously the NW-1200 is smaller, but not a huge amount I would say) and also the quoted battery life is 10 hours less i.e. 20 hours, which would put it at around 12 hours in reality. 2) The actual size of disks is never the same as the amount you can fit on e.g. my HD on my PC was 250GB when I bought it, but it can actually only hold 242 GB of data (I don't know why this is exactly, its to do with the fact that a GB = 1024 MB or something). 3) Not too sure about this however, you can change the language on the player - like mine was bought in the UK but I could have it in japanese if I was clever enough to understand it . As for the firmware, I think it's universal but i'm not too sure. Hope this helps.

I was listening to my NW-A3000 at work today and a few songs started to make a weird skipping effect, much like a scratched CD would. Now the player is well charged, and it only does this on a few tunes which play fine on my PC. Is this likely to be a bad transfer to the player or a hardware problem? Also, I noticed on some songs that sounds in the mid-range not trebly or bassy, sometimes sound a bit distorted. Again is this a trait of the player or is it to do with encoding? I have used SS4CP and transferred the files as they are (all MP3 minimum bitrate is 128Kbps but mostly 192 upwards). Oh yeh, almost forgot - i know that they make a hissing when the volume is low, but I can also hear a weird "brrr" noise as well which changes frequency rapidly (this is just as quiet as the hissing though). Thanks for any help