Transferring to NW-S203

[aataat]

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum and have been reading up on the various posts trying to figure out a solution on my own but alas, I am unable to do so.

I bought a NW-S203F in Japan a few months back and have only just got around to trying to load it up with music.

HOWEVER, I cannot for the life of my get SonicStage to allow me to transfer any songs whatsoever to the player!

At first I would get messages saying that 転��る権利��り��ん (Don't have the rights to transfer) and I read up that this is because SS is attempting to compete against iTunes and ffdshow over some stuff and that the codec is interfering and that I should uninstall or disable it. I did - still no go.

Then I read that Sony's walkmans only recognize ATRAC files so I tried to convert the mp3s in iTunes to ATRAC and to then transfer them to the player. This time I get 転é€?回数ã?Œï¼?ã?Ÿã‚?転é€?ã?™ã‚‹ã?“ã?¨ã?Œã?§ã??ã?¾ã?›ã‚“ (The remaining number of transfers is 0, therefore you cannot transfer the song).

!?!#$!$#!!?

I began to think, oh, okay ... this might be because I happened to have some of these songs sent to me by a friend over MSN.

So I took a legit CD that I purchased (note its JP as well) and ripped it using the SS software and even still! It tells me that I have no transfer rights!

I then tried to convert the ripped files into ATRAC using SS and then it started telling me that the media is recorded in a format unrecognizable to SS. @@

Is there anyone who can help me out here please because I'm really at wits ends and this device is essentially turning out to be a giant waste of money as I can't even put one song on it. =/

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Edit: I'm running Windows VISTA and I have the latest version of SS 4.3 installed. I'm not necessarily looking for a solution to allow specifically SS to transfer songs to the player; if there are alternative softwares that can work, I'm all for it!

Edited September 10, 2007 by aataat