My New Sony NW-A3000

[lodore]

Hi

i have put all my music on it and i see what people mean the disk acess is a bit slow but im defragging it as i write this and soon shoulg be super fast.

i like it thou

lodore

[Guest Stuge]

Hi

i have put all my music on it and i see what people mean the disk acess is a bit slow but im defragging it as i write this and soon shoulg be super fast.

i like it thou

lodore

Which firmware does your A3000 has ?

[lodore]

2.01 now updated to 3.0

and now ive defragged it using diskeeper is is fast!!

Edited September 5, 2006 by lodore

[bogon07]

Congratulations lodore,

And a nice black one too.

How many song do you have on it already ?

[lodore]

1191 songs so far. so not to bad. with version 3.0 fireware its running flawlessly. and once it was defragged.

the package it came in is so nice. so is the player i dont know why thye didnt sell to well. i love it and wouldnt want anyother.

i used to prefer the hd5 but now ive got my a3000 i prefer this. btw i got some sennheiser mx 500 headphones

anywayi am really pleased with this purchase. its like my favourite purchase ever.

i dont know if i have said this before, i haveused sonicstage since version 1 because that what came with my minidisc player so all needed to do was connect my a300 and transfer all my songs over and let the usb charge it

Edited September 6, 2006 by lodore

[lodore]

the thing i dont get is how fraggmented it is when you get it why did sony do this?

[maxthrusters]

I'm loving my A3000 too, even though it's the violet one. I would have preferred a black one, but they never had it here in Canada. Mind you, the violet looks much better than depicted in photos.

I have 4589 songs on mine, all ripped from my own CDs at ATRAC3 132kbbs. I tried 64kbbs at first but while I found the sound acceptable with earphones it was too "thin" when connected to stereo or even the speaker dock accessory. For classical tracks I ripped at 256kbbs and transferred as-is, but I later took them off the player.

The only slow-down I've experienced is when searching and advancing through the lists by artist or song name. When playing (even randomly) there's not been any obvious slow-down for me.

Nifty things I've discovered when using the player are that you can press and hold the buttons for various purposes. The Option button when pressed and held shuts the unit off, the Back button when pressed and held goes to the main menu instantly, and the Play button when pressed and held plays whatever is currently selected on the menu (ie all songs by artist, genre, album, etc). Yes, all this is mentioned in the manual however it's something very useful that's easy to miss! I also like the optional icons for the player's default bookmark lists, symbols that could represent time of day, activity, exercise, commuting, whatever.

[lodore]

ok cool.

normaly to turn it off i pause the music then put on hold then it turns off.

does this waste any battery doing it this way?>

i have all my tracks mainly in 64kbps. but when 64kbps loseless came out i used that. so mainly the older type thou. and atm i dont want to rip all the music to the pc again to a higher setting. but maydo later.

lodore

Edited September 6, 2006 by lodore

[aznbro85]

normaly to turn it off i pause the music then put on hold then it turns off.

does this waste any battery doing it this way?>

It shouldn't it doesnt eat up THAT much battery in that short amount of time.. lol

And besides, it can help you prevent accidently pressing play and draining the battery when you're not using the player.

AND

to answer your question about the fragmentation... i reckon Sony didn't really do it per-se.. cuz you initialize your player before using it. When there's nothing on the drive, it technically cannot be fragmented since there are NO files on the player to be "out of place"

I think it's when after you transfer all your music and start listening to it is when the bits of data get all over the place and it takes longer to "track them down"

or something like that.. it's a harddrive after all.. and all harddrives will get fragmented.

What sony should have done IMHO I think was to add more RAM/utilized it better to buffer the track listings into the RAM, instead of loading it up each time from the Harddrive EACH time you are performing a search action.

I've noticed that "slowness" since the NW-HD1.. I'm kinda surprised that they haven't done something about it yet...

[lodore]

good point they should of added more ram lol

[dura_]

I got both the NW-HD1 and the NW-A3000 and the HD1 is much much faster then the A3000.

If the RAM theory is right (could also be a roll-in roll-out probem, where info is discarded too quickly) it seems the A3000 got less. perhaps Sony thought the HD is fast enough now?

On a sidenote, the HD1 sounds very good, the A3000 even better, both look very stylish.

[Kbadone_]

congradulation man

can I defrag my A1200 hard drive or it just work on the A3000?

[Guest Stuge]

congradulation man

can I defrag my A1200 hard drive ?

Yes,You can defragment you A1200 hard drive .

I got both the NW-HD1 and the NW-A3000 and the HD1 is much much faster then the A3000.

If the RAM theory is right (could also be a roll-in roll-out probem, where info is discarded too quickly) it seems the A3000 got less. perhaps Sony thought the HD is fast enough now?

On a sidenote, the HD1 sounds very good, the A3000 even better, both look very stylish.

Which firmware are you using with your A3000 ?

[lodore]

Hi

A quick update as i said i defragged my a300 using diskeeper andit run faster for a while but now it seems a bit slower again so im defragging it again. i guess all the access makes it fragmented again. is perfectdisk better at making it longer till it fragments again?