AlanL Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Having spent an inordinately long time researching the various options on DAPs, I have finally made a decision and ordered the A3000 from Amazon, which should arrive in about a week. My situation is currently this: I have about 300 albums in MP3 128kbps format which take up about 13Gb. About 100 of those albums were sourced from line-in, and divided manually, taking care to leave together tracks where a gap would be detrimental. The remaining 200 were ripped from CDs (and are all gapped).Having studied the A3000 manual carefully, it appears that unlike the HD5, there is no restriction on using the EQ settings with MP3 files. Plus, there seems to be no difference in battery life between playing 128k MP3 and 128K Atrac. So, apart from about 50 CDs which would benefit from gaplessness by being ripped to Atrac 128K, the rest can be loaded directly as MP3s to the A3000.Will the CONNECT software (either with or without the upgrade) be usable for ripping about 50 CDs and transferring about 250 albums' worth of MP3s, or should I not bother with CONNECT? I have recently installed SonicStage 3.3 and seem to have it working reasonably well. If I use SS and MP3 File Manager to load the A3000, what features will I be missing out on? And if the CONNECT software is upgraded to a reasonable version in a few months, would I have to initialise the disk on the A3000 before using CONNECT and reload everything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stuge Posted November 18, 2005 Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 (edited) U must consult "Fifth para"(first page) of "SimonGrafftey" ReviewLink..NW-A3000 + Connect Player Impressions Edited November 18, 2005 by Stuge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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