Sony Sonic Stage

parcival

I have an old Sony MP3 player that I am happy with. The only way to get stuff onto it is with the now defunct sonic stage software.
I have a new computer which will not support sonic stage.
Does anyone know of any other software that I could use to load music onto the Sony Player?

somersethillbilly

Have a look here

imho

Thanks somersethillbilly. I must have a play around with the program you put on the link.I am sure it cant be as bad as Sonic Stage .

somersethillbilly

Agreed, SonicStage has it's drawbacks...not working on 64bit OS being one of them (there is a work around for that, but it's fiddly!).

I have a NWD-B103 (which thankfully allows simple "drag & drop" to transfer) and also a NW-E013 (which has to use SonicStage to transfer...which I do on an XP 32bit machine). Don't get me wrong, I think both players are great, good sound, and both have lasted well...Good Sony products.

I came across JSymphonic when a friend had problems like parcival above, and think it's a neat solution to what must be a common problem.

Good luck both, hope it helps.

OGR

Not actually helping the OP but just to say I still actually use my NW-HD3 at work as it has some songs on it from CD's that I have lost in the 8 odd years since I have had it. Fantastic sound quality that always wiped the floor with the iPod, its proper EQ was a fantastic thing after Apple only gave you pre-sets. The fact that it had a proper line out mode for using actual speakers or even plugging it into a stereo/amp was also a massive advantage over the iPod.

SonicStage was rubbish, slow and prone to crashing. I lost the disk for it and so I enquired with Sony after I couldn't find it on the support site and they wanted to charge me for a replacement so I ended up getting an iPod....

somersethillbilly

OGR wrote: »

Not actually helping the OP but just to say I still actually use my NW-HD3 at work as it has some songs on it from CD's that I have lost in the 8 odd years since I have had it. Fantastic sound quality that always wiped the floor with the iPod, its proper EQ was a fantastic thing after Apple only gave you pre-sets. The fact that it had a proper line out mode for using actual speakers or even plugging it into a stereo/amp was also a massive advantage over the iPod.

SonicStage was rubbish, slow and prone to crashing. I lost the disk for it and so I enquired with Sony after I couldn't find it on the support site and they wanted to charge me for a replacement so I ended up getting an iPod....

Unlikely from reading the above , but you can get the last version of SonicStage (version 4.3) and a security update here from the Sony site for free. You'd then be able to get any songs off the NW-HD3 and move to another device before it dies.

imho

Oh thats what i got a NW-HD3.I have 2 of them i remember paying £199 for the first one years and years ago. I then got a Ipod where the hard drive has failed on me so found out my Sony NW-HD3 the other day and thought i must change the music on it but the thought of using that Sonic Stage software was putting me off.
I know Sonic Stage wont install on my Vista Laptop but i managed to install it on my Window Xp computer.

somersethillbilly

It helps to set ALL the SonicStage services to start manually in XP, IIRC they are set to start automatically and use up system resources. There are quite a few of them....listed in services as...

MSCSPTIRSV
PACSPTISVR
SonicStage Back-End Service
SonicStage SCSI Service
Sony SPTI Service

They will start normally when SonicStage is run.