joeseptuk Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Has anyone on this board tested windows vista, how is it compared to othwer windows software. Does anyone know will sonicstage and connect be combatible with the new windows software. I am assuming it will, hope windows vista is a lot better than Xp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazdevil Posted January 19, 2006 Report Share Posted January 19, 2006 Been beta testing vista for months, and all the features are not yet enable. Will be a memory hog to boot. Just the video features are amazing, again not fully fuctional. I think as far as being compatible, it will be to early to really tell. I have tried connect on it and it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 I tried Connect with the latest CTP Vista x64 beta, and it worked.. In fact it worked faster and better than it does for me in XP. As in vista, it shows my CD drives, and I can rip music. It also started up alot faster (a I faster, about 3 minutes, compared to 8). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishiyoshi Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 I tried Connect with the latest CTP Vista x64 beta, and it worked.. In fact it worked faster and better than it does for me in XP. As in vista, it shows my CD drives, and I can rip music. It also started up alot faster (a I faster, about 3 minutes, compared to 8).That's an interesting observation. So, would you say that CONNECT Player functions better (in terms of stability) in Vista? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazdevil Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) Much faster and stable, startup, and shutdown times are suprisingly fast, Id go as far as saying twice the time. Edited January 20, 2006 by tazdevil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogon07 Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 I tried Connect with the latest CTP Vista x64 beta, and it worked.. In fact it worked faster and better than it does for me in XP. As in vista, it shows my CD drives, and I can rip music. It also started up alot faster (a I faster, about 3 minutes, compared to 8).Does it really take 8mins to start up Connect on your XP machine ? Do you have a lot of songs in your library ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Does it really take 8mins to start up Connect on your XP machine ? Do you have a lot of songs in your library ?Yes, 8 full minutes, It's horrendous, hence my annoyance with Connect, and the fact I's a majot hassle to transfer music (coupled with the fact the CD drives are missing, so I cann even use it to rip).I have about 8000 tracks, MP3 and WMA mixed.The machine spec is AMD64 3500+, 1GB of RAM, 160GB SATA HDD. I think the PC spec is more than enough for a lousy music manager program. Usually tinyhttp.exe is using in excess of 700MB of memory. Tiny my ass... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogon07 Posted January 23, 2006 Report Share Posted January 23, 2006 mgillespie,8,000 is a lot of tracks but you would expect the database to be able to cope with those sort of numbers for 6 or 20GB music players particularly with your machine specs.My P4(3.2GHz 512MB Ram & 60GB HDD) takes about 40seconds to load ConnectPlayer which has 900 songs in its library. The A1000L then takes 2mins30seconds to load up its 1050 songs. But I prefer to use Sonic Stage 3.2 or 3.3 to rip and load music into the A1000 as it is much faster then occasionally open ConnectPlayer to let it do all its statistical up dates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSP62 Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 I tried Connect with the latest CTP Vista x64 beta, and it worked.. In fact it worked faster and better than it does for me in XP. As in vista, it shows my CD drives, and I can rip music. It also started up alot faster (a I faster, about 3 minutes, compared to 8).NOTE: As I was searching the forum for a particular subject, I came across this post.I know someone spoke of not getting SS/CP to work on their Vista OS.Seems someone got it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 My expereinces of SonicStage 4,0 and Connect Player 1.04 on Vista Beta 2 are:Connect Player.Did not initially work using the desktop shortcut, which points to cplayer.exe. However, if I launch tinyhttp.exe instead, it DID work. It worked better than XP (as mentioned), both clean installs, with the same media. My missing CD drives in XP showed up in Vista (both 32bit and x64 editions).SonicStage 4.0Worked flawlessly under Vista Beta 2 (32bit).Not tried under x64 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted July 29, 2006 Report Share Posted July 29, 2006 An update on SonicStage/Vista:I gave up on Vista Beta 2 about a month ago, as it was too slow, and a memory hog. However, I now have a post beta 2 build from MSDN (build 5472). As after as the Vista side of things, it's a vast improvement on beta 2, much faster. The problem is however, is that SonicStage 4.0 CP does not work.It tells me that my System Information has changed, and gets stuck in a restore loop.Anyone else seen this, and know how to fix it? (apart from going back to XP!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costas0 Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) An update on SonicStage/Vista:I gave up on Vista Beta 2 about a month ago, as it was too slow, and a memory hog. However, I now have a post beta 2 build from MSDN (build 5472). As after as the Vista side of things, it's a vast improvement on beta 2, much faster. The problem is however, is that SonicStage 4.0 CP does not work.It tells me that my System Information has changed, and gets stuck in a restore loop.Anyone else seen this, and know how to fix it? (apart from going back to XP!!)I have exactly the same problem, and don't understand how the System Information can change just by closing and opening the program! The selected music file cannot be played back because the system information has changed.Click OK to automatically close CONNECT Player and open the CONNECT Player System Information Restore tool.I've lost hours of sleep over this, so if anyone has any ideas...Just to mention, I managed to get the program loading up through the tinyhttp option, but I get the message:The Portable device NW-A1000 failed to initialized and can not be used.Error code: 82040301I get the same message when connecting it through Sonicstage, even after full initialization of the device.. It seems to work ok through XP, but it's really annoying me that I can't get either program to recognize my A1000 that I bought only a couple of days ago!!This is my first post, so thanks for everything in advance - it's really the best forum out there related to ATRAC/Sony Music stuff~~ Edited August 21, 2006 by Costas0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petter156 Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 I have exactly the same problem, and don't understand how the System Information can change just by closing and opening the program! What if I just do a clean install of Vista (RC1) and then a new install off SS 4.0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petter156 Posted October 15, 2006 Report Share Posted October 15, 2006 Any updates on this topic? I´m using Windows Vista RC2 and I am also getting stuck in the restore loop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 I am really hoping the forthcoming SonicStage CP 4.1 addresses this, otherwise Sony will be even further from their desired market position for Walkman, as ITunes already works flawlessly in Vista RC2, and Microsoft Zune will of course be Vista ready when it arrives. Creative have a open API, so even if the supplied tools don't work, there are others that do.I suspect Sony is the ONLY portable player at the moment that does not work in Vista.As usual, very shabby support from Sony, who simply don't seem to care about their customers, or their fast deminishing reputation for delivering good, hi-tech products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petter156 Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 (edited) I think Sony´s hardware and products still hold a high standard. The problem is the software - something that has been lacking for a long time. And with todays competition in the MP3 player market, the software part is very important for the whole product. The hardware part can be very very good - but that that´s not enough if people are just annoyed by the app they have to use. Oh yeah; when is the 4.1 revision supposed to be out? Edited October 22, 2006 by Petter156 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Vista support appears to be fixed in SonicStahe Cp 4.2 Yay...I don't seem to have the errors I was previously getting, and the database restore loop problem. I have just loaded some tracks, re-started SS, restarted my PC, connected/disconnected my NW-A3000, and everything is "just working "...It also seems sigificantly faster this version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petter156 Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Great. I´ll give this a try later today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Let us know how you get on, as Vista compatability is based on a sample of one (me)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sander151187 Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 (edited) I have got Vista build 6000 and Sonic Stage 4.2 doesn't work with it it tells over and over again that openmg module could not be registeredGues that's the end of the short life of my NW-HD5 Edited November 14, 2006 by sander151187 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Damn, It's working OK in RC2.. Seems Microsoft changed something, and Sony have yet to catch up.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgillespie Posted November 17, 2006 Report Share Posted November 17, 2006 OK, got my MSDN version of Vista RTM (final), and have SonicStage 4.2 working.It did crash installing OMG module during install, but it does not seem to have affected the performance of it (I seem to recall the same installer crashed in the past on Windows XP x64 edition).So if your trying Sonicstage under Vista, and it crashes, worry not it should still be OK!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evil Homer Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Hi all.I also got the MSDN version of Vista RTM (final) and installed SonicStage 4.2. Worked at first, but I think I accidently enabled "Intelligent Feature" for my NW-A1000. Unfortunately now, I cannot have my player connected to the pc, as it results in a crash in Omgjbox.exe.But, I cannot get to the device options to turn off the Intelligent Features before SonicStage crashes.I've uninstalled SonicStage countless times now, and removed all the entries from the registry. But still a bit flumoxed.I'd appreciate any suggestions.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSP Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Damn.I'm getting a little bit scared when reading this. I will be getting a brand new laptop with Vista on it for my birthday.I hope SSCP 4.2 works on it. Otherwise I'll be very very pissed off. I have a NW-A1200, PSP, NW-S703 and NW-307.So I defenitely need sonicstage very bad!!!! It's the final version, and official retail version of vista, so I assume that SSCP 4.2 will work.But We'll see about that in six weeks from now. Then I'll be getting my laptop.greetz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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