Should I buy the NW-A3000?

[rubenlentz]

Hey,

I'm from Holland and really thinking about buying a silver NW-A3000 (black isnt available in Holland). But since I've read about much problems with the software, Because of that, I'm really hesitating. Is the Connect Player really that bad, or do problems only occur at some people? I'm really wondering if the problems are really that bad, or if they were solved with the upgrade.

Thank you very much in advance for helping me out with advice.

Ruben from the Netherlands

[sh33p]

The fact is you're going to get so many mixed results from the people on the board, it really won't be much help to you in deciding whether or not you want to buy it.

I would say buy it, if CONNECT works, fabulous. If it doesn't work, use SonicStage. I don't think anyone has had a positively NEGATIVE experience with the A3000+SonicStage combination, only the loss of some more "innovative" features of the player, like ArtistLink and whatever else.

It's a lovely player. Brilliant sound quality, it feels quite solid, aside from a few people who have noticed some slightly patchy build quality. It's pretty, and it's not an ipod.

Best of luck if you go ahead with your purchase.

[rubenlentz]

thanks man

yes meanwhile I'm almost certain to buying one, I just figured this would give a more realistic overview of the problems with Connect player, since the people with no problems with CONNECT are less likely to post that on a forum in a thread, but should be so kind taking part of this poll..

[Bijl]

Don't try to edit your tags and play music with Connect, just use it for transferring, it does a decent job at that (slow though).

[rubenlentz]

meanwhile, I've got the player in my possession, I don't really see the big problems with CONNECT.. didnt try to transfer though, but it does a neat job just playing files

[sh33p]

I think CONNECT transfer is quite fast and painless. Everything else could be better though. Congratulations on your purchase rubenlentz.

[alexwils]

I've had no problems with CP at all. It's not windows media player by any means but it works fine - both ripping / copying and playing. A guy at work here couldn't get either CP or sonicstage to work though.