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From Sony Connect:
Download the latest version of the Connect player and access the Connect music store, one of the world's largest music download stores. It's your online source for today's chart-topping hits, emerging artists from independent labels, all your old favorites, plus exclusive tracks you simply can't find anywhere else. You can download your tunes to listen on your PC, then burn a CD to play in your car or home stereo. Or transfer your songs to over 3 dozen different Sony portable audio devices such as the new HD3 Network Walkman.
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All versions:
2.1 starsout of 152 votes
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Current version:
1.9 starsout of 105 votes
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"sonic stage"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
keeps working for three years so long as I did not want any changes
Cons
I wasted so much time trying to backup and restore to another computer I have given up. I not too sure where to go next
Summary
what do you advise .I just want to be able to download some of my personal records pod casts and I don't want any cliitches in makeing copies and I would like to be able to copy and past music files. What sydtemis the easiest and less constrained?
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"even makes Microsoft look good!"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
Nothing - there really is nothing to like. It does everything badly.
Cons
Everything! Extremely unreliable, slow, shuts down with errors 99 times out of 100. Duplicates music.
Summary
Finally, I have given in and ordered an iPhone. This software is simply so bad, Sony should give up trying to improve it, it has become obvious they are incompetent. I loveD my Sony player, however, if i can not transfer music then it is useless. I have soldiered on for two years, fought Sony customer services (JOKE), I have been driven insane by this programme.
Features - mostly very good - IF THEY WORKED
Functionality - Excellent - IF IT WORKED
I have a house full of Sony equipment as I had always believed it was the best. Oh how one company can completely ignore the basics. As things need replacing, I shall be moving away from Sony, I simply do not need this grief with any other product. -
"i want this pdoduct for me only because i lose my versi"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
i lost.the cd for my player
Cons
no i want to do the download.and i dont know why the privacy police they didnt leave me to do
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"Very dark interface, no intuitive. No Mac support."
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
The sound is good.
Cons
THERE IS NOT MAC OS SUPPORT!!!!!!!!!!
Summary
I moved to mac, but now my mp3 player is useless. Sony hate mac users?
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"worked just fine for me"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
quick download, it had to connect to download more of the software, which went at 900+k/s on cable, done pretty fast.
after the installation it was only a minute till the songs i wanted to add to my mp3 player were done (nw-a3000)Cons
you have to restart your computer after installation.
purple ish background. i don't like purple.Summary
it worked, and only took 5 minutes at most to get up and running, including all downloading and installing. getting music onto your local playlist is easy, but you have to do it without pretty pictures and fancy words via a simple file browser.
when i connected my mp3 player it warned that i can't transfer copy protected music onto it unless i a, delete all my music off of it, or b, find some way to authorize it. i had to do neither, my files transferred onto it just fine.
to put files onto your sony mp3 player, it works just fine -
"Very badly programmed software"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
None...none and one more none ...unfortunately.
Cons
A lot of crash. Basic functionality like moving songs are not even available.
Summary
I hate to give bad review, but this time there is noother choice.
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"Just want some help with a problem"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
I like being able to seperate into playlists
Cons
The problem I'm having is described below.
Summary
I'm just looking for a little help. I bought my laptop with Sonic Stage five months ago and have been using it well until two weeks ago. Now when I go to use it a message pops up that the application has stopped working. Then another message pops up to have Microsoft go online to find the problem. I click on that, another pop up shows that it is checking, for about three seconds, and then it disappears. I downloaded a new version last week (9 nov 08) and the same thing happened. What do I do?
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"UTTER GARBAGE"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
ummm.... none that i can think of
Cons
Crashes all the time
Bad layout
That its the only program you can use
The installer downloads the files from sony so you cant downgrade
Have to format if your players music was put on a diff version of the programSummary
An mp3 player should be just that.. an MP3 player not what ever format this has to convert to.
My sister and dad have this mp3 player and its garbage the way you have to put music on it.
On my mp3 player all you do is plug it into the usb open the drive and and drag in your files and thats it done.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS PROGRAM AND GET A NEW MP£ PLAYER!!!!! -
"Corrupt File"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
druerhns dft umrs
Cons
aewra6 sdty7 sw
Summary
The file is corrupt an will not run on my laptop. Don't download it.
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"unmitigated cack"
Version: Sony Connect (SonicStage) 3.3
Pros
nothing at all
Cons
1) Slow: Importing CDs into the library takes hours. Bizarrely, deleting files takes just as long.
2) Buggy: often crashes during import
3) Confusing: what does this mean? "Do you want to import the file after you copy the file to the hard disk"Summary
why won't sony let us use drag-and-drop in explorer? well, it kind of does but you can't tell what the files are as this stupid software renames files added to the device
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