Sonicrage Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Does anyone know if Connect Player is available to download anywhere? I have checked the ususal Sony sites but they only have SonicStage 3.3. As always Sony releases new hardware shipped with new software but no-one else has caught up. When will they communicate effectively?? It is still unknow as to whether the connect player will be HI-MD compatible, however, from what I have read it should be compatible with all Sony portables, including the new walkman phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Keep a look out this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrazyIvan Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Keep a look out this week.Whaaa? Is this for US release? we have not even received 3.3 yet??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Whaaa? Is this for US release? we have not even received 3.3 yet??? SonicStage 3.3 is out for all regions as of last Thursday or Friday. You must have missed my announcement in the SonicStage 3.3 news thread. Please review the SonicStage 3.3 [all Regions] - Download Links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted November 8, 2005 Report Share Posted November 8, 2005 (edited) Does anyone know if Connect Player is available to download anywhere? CONNECT Player is now live --> check out this thread at our sister forum, ATRACLife Colloquium for instruction. *note: some may encounter problem with installation - if that is the case, please refer to the discussion within the noted threadPlease note: before you guys ask, the new CONNECT Player does not recognize any Hi-MD unit and it appears to support unicode *somewhat. No registry edit is needed to display language other than English (for example: Japanese, Chinese and etc). However, there's a need to employ AppLocale to ensure proper playback of music tracks encoded in language other than English (or Roman characters).*read this post for further details. Edited November 8, 2005 by Ishiyoshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonicrage Posted November 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Cheers Ishiyoshi,I followed the links, installed Connect player, imported some music, messed with the settings and removed Connect player.To be honest SonicStage is better and has HI-MD support, as well as support for all Sony's other portable players. The Auto updates didn't appear to work either, but that could be a firewall issue.Connect Player issues:It's clunky when you have a lot of tracks (I have 4,000+) When importing tracks if you have a .OMA and another version of the same track it will import it twiceCompilation albums get jumbled by ArtistFile save options i.e artist/album/track is confusing to say the least "%S % T"???Oh and the big one it doesn't support any devise other than the A Walkman range!!Message to Sony, ipods are shit everyone love itunes. Connect looks nice but what's the point of having a consolidated walkman range of really great hardware then having different and useless software for each device. It just doesn't make sense..... all it acheives is more itunes users.I think I will wait for the official Sony Connect download, i imagine that by next week they'll be on version 2.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_in_flames Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Cheers Ishiyoshi,I followed the links, installed Connect player, imported some music, messed with the settings and removed Connect player.To be honest SonicStage is better and has HI-MD support, as well as support for all Sony's other portable players. The Auto updates didn't appear to work either, but that could be a firewall issue.Connect Player issues:It's clunky when you have a lot of tracks (I have 4,000+) When importing tracks if you have a .OMA and another version of the same track it will import it twiceCompilation albums get jumbled by ArtistFile save options i.e artist/album/track is confusing to say the least "%S % T"???Oh and the big one it doesn't support any devise other than the A Walkman range!!Message to Sony, ipods are shit everyone love itunes. Connect looks nice but what's the point of having a consolidated walkman range of really great hardware then having different and useless software for each device. It just doesn't make sense..... all it acheives is more itunes users.I think I will wait for the official Sony Connect download, i imagine that by next week they'll be on version 2.xlets wait and see if sony officially says its compatible with md and hd* series things, otherwise theres not much point in downloading the connect player, if only to say it sucks. Has it been stated that the new connect player is good 2 go with the older non A series devices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 lets wait and see if sony officially says its compatible with md and hd* series things, otherwise theres not much point in downloading the connect player, if only to say it sucks. Has it been stated that the new connect player is good 2 go with the older non A series devices?Greg, As I’ve mentioned in the preceding posts, CONNECT Player simply does not support/recognize Hi-MD, the HDx series and other known Network Walkman period. As for performance issue, I think it is plausible to state that this is because many users installed CONNECT Player via the update module manually. I believe this factored into its instability. But of course, there are other variables – one such is that “TinyHTTP.exe process.” Let's hope the official public release will be more agreeable. Stay tuned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfbr2001@hotmail.com Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 What is the TinyHTTP.exe process? I am new to sony, have over 6,000 music files and am having trouble with the software. it is very clunky. takes ages to load and uses loads of memory and processing power for the tinyhttp.exe. it is really frustrating. Can you help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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