farcus Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 (edited) I've had an NWA-3000 sitting in the bottom of a drawer for the last couple of years collecting dust as I cannot load any music on to it from my Opensuse computer. When I bought it I was told that a Linux version of Connect player was in the works . . . then Sony ditched Connect player and revived Sonicstage (supposedly as a stopgap) which of course has no Linux support.Anyway - it's a couple of years down the track - any news on the horizon of a full replacement to Sonicstage - and if there is - will there ever be Linux support - or should I just give up and try and sell off the Walkman to somebody with Windows? Edited November 17, 2007 by farcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 17, 2007 Report Share Posted November 17, 2007 If you want a sony walkman to work on linux I would suggest getting the new NWZ-S7xx and NWZ-81x players as they will work on linux using drag and drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farcus Posted November 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 If you want a sony walkman to work on linux I would suggest getting the new NWZ-S7xx and NWZ-81x players as they will work on linux using drag and drop.hmmmm . . .Not something I really wanna do when I already have a pretty good Walkman sitting around doing nothing - it's just let down by the software available for it. Why can't they just upgrade the firmware on the NWA series so they support drag n drop?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascariss Posted November 18, 2007 Report Share Posted November 18, 2007 hmmmm . . .Not something I really wanna do when I already have a pretty good Walkman sitting around doing nothing - it's just let down by the software available for it. Why can't they just upgrade the firmware on the NWA series so they support drag n drop??the older walkmans with NW tagging can't be upgraded, at least not the A1000/1200/3000. They are old and although sony still supports it if it broke, but not firmware updates or software updates.Although I agree to a point that the old A series was good, great sound, great design and sturdy design, it had many flaws, one being connect player and sonicstage, both of which are resource hogs and not the most reliable for everyone (experiences vary from person to person).the units were hdd which although good and high capacity, have a crudy start up time and battery life is affected significantly with hdd. Plus navigating is a bit slow on the device, could make use of more ram. This is one aspect of the series that kind of was a let down for me.in addition sony opted for OLED when most competitors were colour LCD, and I may have said sure its better on battery life, which it is, but you can't see jack outside in daylight. As well, dust under the cover was another nusiance.anywho, sorry for the rant , there is no planned firmware update planned for the older NW-As as far as I know and sony hasn't hinted that there will be any.farcus if capacity is an issue for you, then the new players won't do you good. But if you don't need too much capacity, I would suggest checking out the new NWZ-As and NWZ-Ss at your local sony store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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