micknkeef

This may be old news (and I apologize if it is) but I stumbled upon this program that lets you synch up your Walkman phones with iTunes. I don't know why, but I couldn't get the disc2phone software to list my mp3 folders in alphabetical order. It might be displaying them in date-imported order, but I got sick of digging through the them that way to find an album. With this program, you can just make a playlist and send it over. I can confirm that it at least works for my W800i. A couple of notes: it will replace all of your music so if you want to keep one song or album, keep it on the playlist. Also (I think) the folder has to be labeled as "My Sony Device". I'm sure you programming people will correct me or tell me how to get around that. It's just as slow as D2P, but picking the albums to transfer is much easier with iTunes, in my opinion. I like using SS for making CDs (and I have no choice for managing my HD3), but I have to admit, I use iTunes for perusing my library and listening at my desk. SS is just too slow for me. D2P was so annoying, I rarely changed out the songs on my phone. Here's the address: http://teavuihuang.com/massstorsync/

Just threw this on eBay. I just don't use it anymore since picking up a hi-md portable. Starts at $9.99 and no reserve. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMESE%3AIT&rd=1 Thanks for looking.

I've had hundreds of transactions using PayPal and while there are ups and downs with it, just like everything else, I use it for the convenience. I just sold 30 DVDs on eBay last week and I always require PayPal only payments within 1 day of the auction ending. It helps get the transaction over with quickly and when trying to sort out 30 shipments in 1 or 2 days, having PayPal linked to your eBay account really helps out. I only have two complaints myself. They used to only take the 2.9% but recently added a 30 cents per transaction fee which took an additional $9 out of my DVD auctions. Sucks but again, the convenience factor makes it tolerable I guess. The only real problem I had with them was a few years ago when I bought something from Taiwan. It was advertised as new and sealed and when it arrived, it was open and obivously used. Their policy might have changed since then but at the time, PayPal only wanted to step in if you actually didn't receive the item. If it arrived and was damaged or misrepresented, then that was something to be taken up with shipping or eBay. They refused to do anything and eBay also couldn't help me out other than advising me to try and work it out via email, which is hard to do when the seller ignores you. Not a big deal on a $15 item but still, the fact that the seller got away with it bothered me more than anything. That is the only complaint I really have about them. Again, convenience, convenience, convenience. I have over 500 transactions on eBay and before I hooked up with PayPal, I had to wait for checks and money orders which was always amusing.

I got this in an email from sony/bmg today: "Yo-Yo Ma / John Williams iTunes Sessions Recently, Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams sat down at Sony Music Studios to record 3 tracks from Memoirs of a Geisha in a new, stripped down format exclusively for iTunes. Learn more and hear sound clips at the iTunes Music Store. Plus if you purchase the EP, you get an exclusive 10 minute interview with Yo-Yo and John as they discuss their time working together." I could understand both Connect and iTunes but exclusively Apple?

Hi-Fi Arthur Fidler - Fiedler Boston Pops Beethoven 5th Symphony - Boston Symphony Orchestra Charles Munch Rachmaninoff/Prokofiev - Van Cliburn Thaikovsky / Rachmaninoff Piano Concerts - Kiril Kondrashin & Fritz Reiner Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition - Fritz Reiner Chopin Ballades & Scherzos - Rubenstein Beethoven/ Mendelssohn Violin Conertos - Heifitz / Munch Richard Strauss in High Fidelity Heifetz Concertos: Sibelius / Prokofiev / Glazunov They also had a version of Rhapsody in Blue but I didn't bother with that one.

Just wanted to pass this along. I found about 10 different titles when I stopped by my local store the other night. If you don't have super audio yet, they are hybrid so they also have a CD layer on them in additional to SACD 2 and 3 channel tracks.

also, at the moment: motley crue: red hot (any live version and not the original) john barry: john dunbar theme (dances w/ wolves) alison krauss: i'm gone lyle lovett: opening credits (dr t & the women) shinedown: simple man

Thanks guys, I appreciate the input.

Hey MDX, thanks for your reply. I guess we're just not going to see eye to eye on this issue which is completely fine. You lay on the sarcasm pretty thick so I’ll do my best to lay off of it. I honestly feel that you did not get the end result that I was trying to convey in the review, but I'll take some of the blame for that since I'm not the best writer. I’m not trying to attack anyone here, but I still have one issue with your comments that I was expecting something I shouldn’t have. I feel that I truly did as much reasonable research as I could on this item. I consider myself enough of an electronics junkie that I usually know what I want before I get it. I read both sites (crutchfield/connects) and both of them simply stated that you could control the walkmans through your head unit. I could not find any other sites through google that had descriptions of this piece. I knew I was taking a chance of the scrolling feature not being there, and if I wasn't comfortable with that, I wouldn't have ordered it. I did email and call connects about another issue but it doesn't seem like they are staffed, at the number I called, to answer technical questions and they couldn't refer me to anyone else. So it arrived and the feature I was hoping for wasn't there. I stated that in my review and I even mentioned that that might be ok for some of the other readers. I don't see how this equates to me 'magically' expecting something to happen. At no time did I say that someone advertised this feature and it wasn't there. I understand your explanation of the limits of the unilink system or whatever other aspects of the hardware that prohibit the feature I’m looking for. I have had two different minidisc changers so I assumed (incorrectly as you like to point out) that they could somehow modify the list function. Seems that most people, myself included, don’t know about this but thanks for letting us know. Your advanced knowledge about this stuff makes me think we’d be friends if we lived near each other. If you have any knowledge about sound forge, I welcome your comments to my question in the software section. Finally, I think the entire point of a review is to share your overall experience with it. It’s a rare review that has only positive things to say and doesn’t point out any negatives (although there are occasional exceptions for truly outstanding products to this) in it. This item could be great for someone else, it just wasn’t for me and I stated why. I can’t imagine that you only have positive things to say about any rare accessory item thinking it might discourage others from making a different one. If anything, I would hope that if anyone who has any say in the development of a similar product (on the rare chance that they just happened to stumble across my little blurb) would just bring it up for discussion at the table. Ultimately, I stand by my review. If it was completely out of line, like you seem to suggest, I think the administrators would take issue with it.

I'm a 10 year MD user that has updated to a mz-nh1, nw-hd3, and an nw-e505. I like the fact that SS(3.4) includes the basic divide/combine feature which I use to cut out certain parts of songs. Unfortunately, on my 1 year old dell, during the "rehearsal", when it jumps back to the beginning of the cut, there's a burst of audio which makes it very difficult to hear of the start point of the divide mark is exactly where you want it to be. I found this software at the Sony Style store for $70 and was wondering if it also includes the option of of dividing and combining both atrac and mp3 files? What other features are there that a basic editor such as myself might ues? Is there a way to upload my atrac3 files and spit them back onto a hi-md? I apologize in advance if this has already been discussed.

Your reply seems a little hostile but hey, if you're going to nit pick, so can I. Learn to read: my second sentence states that I purchased it directly from connects2usa, not crutchfield. Yes, they did take it back but they took 3 weeks to credit me back after it was received back. "Uh, isn't there a "HOLD" feature on the HD3? " Jeez, take it easy. Again if you read my post, you'd realize that my complaint had to do with that I wanted to control the scrolling with the head unit, not the walkman. The hold feature had nothing to do with it. "I don't think this is possible with the UniLink architecture anyway. All UniLink has to "scroll" as you put it, is it's LIST up mode. A maximum of ten, 8-character Custom File/CD-Text (only the first 8chars for CD-Text displayed in LIST up mode) can be displayed in LIST up mode. The problem isn't just the adapter, Sony's changer control itself (though very advanced compared to most car audio changer protocols) just wasn't designed to handle something like this. Considering UniLink is perhaps almost 20 years old, it's no surprise to me. I think perhaps you were expecting too much from the connection. Furthermore I don't think any (or at least not many) iPod car integration adapters allow you to do what you mentioned either. Perhaps on some newer HUs with changer protocols and interfaces that were specifically designed to handle the iPod, but other than that I don't think you can scroll through albums like that with most of them." Actually, my head unit displays more than 8 characters. My 10 year old cdx-860 was limited to 8 but my current one seems to display something like 15 and this adapter had no problem displaying that many on the screen. Also, most current head units that connect directly to an ipod, lock the controls (again, this is not something that I want, just an observation) and your only option is to scroll through the menus/titles on your screen. Someone I know has this on their Pioneer and they actually don't care for it because they can't turn the dial as quickly as you can run your fingers around the scroll wheel. I don't have an opinion on this so please don't attack me regarding any your views on this "limitation". I'm sorry you seem bothered by a bad review. I'm wasn't going to base my review on someone else's.

I just purchased and returned this unit: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-bVIvimH2fqu/c...ch=connects2usa I purchased it directly from them connets2usa.com and I have to tell it was a complete disappointment and almost completely useless for my applications. Firstly, the build quality and cables provided are about what you would expect. Decent, but nothing spectacular. I figured I would upgrade the audio cable if it worked out for me. The instructions are on a very thin sheet of paper that is folded in half. The operating instructions had part of the last word on each line cut off, even though there was room for it on the paper. Once hooked up (to my CDX-F7715X), which hooks up the same way a CD or MD changer would, you plug the control cable into your walkman. It did work but your only available functions were next/previous song, or next/previous album. Although the title information came through on the faceplate, you could not scroll through your albums and pick one further down the list. I'm sure this might work for some of you, but I have over 600 different albums (some obviously not complete) on HD3 and if I want to go from "Contraband" to "Wish You Were Here", it would take forever. The controls for your walkman are not locked so you could grab it and scroll up/down yourself, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of this connector? Finally, my last gripe had to do with the volume. It would not accept the line out version of the signal. Even if you turned it on, it would switch to the headphone out and you'd have to max it out. Very odd in my opinion. Even if I did want to keep it, which I don't, it stopped working all-together the next day. Lucky for me, they are taking it back. I can't put into words my frustration that Sony makes and iPod adapter and not one for their own units. I suppose that they might make one soon, but probably only for the new A-series walkmans that I'm not going to bother with because they're butt-ugly, imho. Also, can someone explain to me why they're available in Canada and not the US? I was able to handle both at a Sony store in Vancouver this month which cemented my view of not liking them, but I was just surpised at the different selection they had. They also had a 2GB version of the NW-E series. I consider myself a patient person, but Sony is seriously testing my loyalty with their product support lately. I do believe that atrac sounds better than mp3 at any matching bit rate but the fact that my girlfriend's iPod is supported by practically everything including new home receivers, makes me wonder if I should give up after 10+ years of blind devotion to the format.

Interesting. What's happening in 2007?

Thanks a lot. I'll try that tonight. It was so disappointing to see all of those new albums. I guess I was hoping too much that they would stay the way that they were backed up. Or maybe those settings were all reset when I reinstalled 3.2. Anyways, thanks again.

I was at a Sears recently and even though they carry rather pedestrian level electronics, I always take a look being the junkie that I am. I found a new mini-system from Sony that plays regular and mp3 CDs but not ATRAC files. If you go to Sonystyle.com, you can see that the new upconverting DVD players with HDMI (which I have been waiting for to use between now and blue-ray) are also supporting MP3 and not ATRAC. How can this be? I feel my loyalty to the format for the last 10 years is being ignored. It's really hard to get any of my friends, or even my girlfriend, into the format and lack of hardware support from even the format's creator is just unthinkable. Makes me wonder if Sony's new direction includes quietly sweeping ATRAC out the door without making any sort of announcement. Did I mention that my CDX-F7715X has a much smaller gap between mp3 files than ATRAC? Thanks a bunch Sony.

I've been dealing with SS since the HD-3 came out and as much as I like ATRAC, SS has always been a little buggy. But this one is driving me nuts. I recently reformatted my hard drive and backed up about 18 gigs of ATRAC files onto 4 DVDs. When I re-imported one disc worth of files, it took any album that had more than one artist on it and made a seperate album for each artist. I had one Billboard Top Hits folder with 75 different artists and it is now in 75 different "Billboard Top Hits" albums. I'm not going to re-label all of those albums. Can anyone here help me out?

I'm definitely not a master with SonicStage but this might be your issue. With the unit plugged in, and SS in the mode to transfer the songs, click on "device" or "media" on the bottom right side of the screen to get an option to register your player. This happened to me when I first got me NW-E505.