Question: Mp3 organization with the VAIO Pocket

[bongocanuck]

First off I am a newb!

Second...my old mp3 player allowed me to simple drag and drop mp3s into the player and create playlists (in winamp) if i wanted to organize them in playlist manner.

Now I know things are different with sony but I am openminded.

First question:

1. I have only mp3s (about 8000) and don't want to convert them to atrac. My mp3s are a mess in terms of id tags which is why i liked my old method of just making winamp playlists...

the vaio pocket seems to organize by genre/album/artist (which I believe are mp3 tag based)...soooo...

can i just create a folder called "classical" somehow in sonicstage and have the folder recognized in the pocket? Will sonic automatically convert them to atrac (which i do not want)?

2. the vaio transfer program just lets me drag and drop mp3 songs...but how does it know what folder i want it dropped into? Say I have a pre-existing classical folder...how will it drop the mp3 into that?

thanks for any help.

[Dimitri]

If you don't specify folders (as in using vaio transfer) it will generate folders based on album tag data. If you use SS, you can manually create folders and drop songs into them. Then you will have the option of navigating on tag data (artist -> album -< etc) or navigating by folder names. This is the only option you really have as playlists cannot be created on the computer to synch to the vaio. You can create up to 5 favorite lists from the vaio itself, though, but this can be cumbersome if things aren't organized well.

[Minger]

Use the MP3 manager - it will copy over folders so when you check the groups it'll be under there...but it'll get unorganized pretty quick