Ascariss Posted November 14, 2007 Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 I waited patiently and realized sony canada, was in no hurry to sell the 8 gig model here. I ordered one from the US, and with our dollar being so good right now compared to the US, I only paid 235 CAN dollars with shipping and duties, this is 10 dollars more than the equal 4 gig model here. So yes was worth the price.Initial impressions, it is really small, way smaller than I thought it would be. It is a bit heavier than I expected but solidly built so no worry there. I like the hold button in the back, really nicely placed, the screen looks good, nice and bright. Start up is fast and menu response fantastic. Looks way better than an Ipod or anything else on sale.I snapped some photos, and added a quick compare to the A1000. I can snap more pictures in the daytime tomorrow. Also I didn't know WMP 11 was needed for windows explorer to pick up the device. anyways.sound quality = greatbuild quality = greatI love it already, btw the headphones that come with the player, not the best for me, not comfortable. :/Details.txtquick edit, I got playlists working on it, i tried importing a winamp playlist, but that didn't work, so I created one in wmp and then dragged the winamp playlist from windows explorer into WMP11 and it added the songs in the same order and with no issues, then saved the playlist, and moved it to the player. the playlist appears under the playlists in the player. Sorry if that was mentioned before but if it wasn't well here it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markey Posted November 14, 2007 Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 Congratulations on the new purchase Ascariss. I have the ATRAC variant my self, but have just purchased the NWZ-A816 for the wife in pink. How do you find using the player with WMP11 compared to Sonic Stage? I guess you wont have much use for the A3000/A1000 now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 Thanks for the reply. To be honest, I've always avoided sonicstage if and when I could and this was no exception for the NW-A1000/3000 models. The only time I've used sonicstage was with my minidisc. Although that wasn't bad, it wasn't great either. It crashed a few times but it worked fine, but once i upgraded to a newer version a few years back, I couldn't only transfer over stuff, some other functions caused it to crash on me.I only used connect player once the new units came out, it wasn't perfect I admit that, it crashed of course but it transfered fine. Once the newest version of CP came out, and the one before this one, I've not had any issues with it since.Compared to WMP11, conncet player just doesn't cut it now. Takes a while for it to open fully, 30 seconds, and doesn't run as smoothly as I would hope on my pc. WMP11 doesn't look bad, I never really wanted a program to sort my library or organize it, I do that myself, since I use winamp. But WMP11 isn't bad, i personally like the transfer area and when you drag stuff into the sync area and press syncs fine. I've not tested any automated syncing nor photos nor gapless (already been tested), nor videos. I will probably do most of that today.The WMP11 library looks quite good, clean yet organized, and using itunes (7) for podcasts I can say that microsoft has made a better product. I am sure that a podcast option could be easily added to WMP11 and firmware upgrade provided for the mp3 players which would allow of easy syncing of podcasts.As for the media manager that is due to be released, who really knows how that will function and if it will be any good. Here's hoping for good things.sum up:sonicstage - bad, never used it since it was unstable for meconnect player - once updated ran fine, albiet slowlyWMP11 - seems to be the winner, fast and easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markey Posted November 14, 2007 Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 Thanks Ascariss. Looks like I made the right choice re the wife's birthday present. She's never quite grasped SS and with drag and drop she can't go wrong. I'll find out after next Monday when I give it to her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2007 Ok more thoughts on the player.I don't like how it creates folders for all the different songs and so forth :/ would have just preferred it reading the info from the id tags rather than making folders. the supplied headphones, the EX-82s, sound quite good but are not the most comfortable compared to my older EX-71s. Their sound is fine but as was mentioned in other threads, they don't isolate sound as much as the EX-71s. So I think I will be sticking to my trusty 71s for now.Playlists. It took me a while to get another playlist onto the device since I must have been doing something wrong. But rest assured I am glad to see that files are not duplicated with playlists that have identical songs. hehe.videos. Well some m4v play on the device, others do not :/ so a bit of a dissapointment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 a better photo of size comparison. I am seriously liking WMP 11, easy to use and transfer over files and playlists. I think I might uninstalled CP since I have no more use for it. use of the player when in the pocket is easy and not cumbersome as an ipod touch would be or nano. the metal finish is a nice touch, sturdy. sound like I said before is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zizone_ Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) One thing that I don't like about the WMP 11 is that... it can't really get any CD information right. I find frequent miss spelling of band, and songs and giving wrong information about the genre. I end up doing all manually. Also, it gives one bad album art, if it does at all. In this respect, SonicStage is a lot better.But, WMP11 does indeed have better look, but I feel like I am more restricted to WMA and WAV only. Although I can drag-n-drop but... that's not really WMP11.Also, I am not quite sure how the files are being converted, I am sure I will figure it out, but I thought SS was more clear about it or gave me more control.WMP11 is faster and has nicer look. But I certainly miss some features from SonicStage for sure. In the end, WMP11 is not bad at all.By the way, nice pics!!! Edited November 19, 2007 by Zizone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 I have all my songs in mp3 format, with all ID tag information added personally, I don't use wma, sometimes wav. Yet to add any album art to my songs, too lazy for that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zizone_ Posted November 19, 2007 Report Share Posted November 19, 2007 (edited) One thing that I don't understand is... What's this contributing artist in WMP11? When I search under artist via NWZ-A818, it actually shows list of contributing artist set by WMP11 not artist set by WMP11, which I need to correct it by either delting contributing artist or typing artist under contributing artist... Kinda annoying part of WMP11 for me... Other then few annoying things, WMP11 is working out alright for me. Edited November 19, 2007 by Zizone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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