A more personal encounter with Sony suckage

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Dear Mom:

Ever since I was very small, you would always have us making out Christmas lists so you knew what we wanted. This seemed like such a good idea, I've forced everyone around me to do the same (or at least, until Amazon wishlists came along and got world + dog into the habit anyways). That being the case, you'll note that a Sony Network Walkman[tm] was not on said list. The reasons for that are:

1) Sony sucks and we don't like them for their rootkit bullshit, so we are not buying their stuff.

2) I told you I was going to live and die with my Minidisc player, and didn't want an MP3 player, because I am a sucker for dinosaur formats.

3) Something I did not know before this appeared on my doorstep and I popped the seal, rendering it unfit for return--this isn't even an MP3 player. You have to take your enormous digital music library & transfer it into their fucking proprietary format (the "SonicStage Library[tm]"), thus taking up twice the disk space, before you can actually put it on the portable wossname.

I appreciate the thought, really I do, but this particular item shouldn't be owned by anyone, and it definitely shouldn't be owned by me.

Love you lots,

me.

Edit: God Bless Our Web! It seems there's a wotcha you can download to send it MP3s. You can only store about 1/3 the amount of music, but That's Okay.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think that just might be the wotcha that our waider wrote.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

The thing I found is a link to a downloadable on Sony Asia-Pacific's web site, viz. http://www.css.ap.sony.com/consumer/template/DDSummary.aspx?Id=44358&Category=Personal+Audio (http://www.css.ap.sony.com/consumer/template/DDSummary.aspx?Id=44358&Category=Personal+Audio). If there's something even more suitable out, I'd be delighted to know of it.

[waider.livejournal.com]

depends on the model and your intended use. the sony doohickey works well enough for windows users, but if you're on a linux box have a look at http://www.waider.ie/hacks/workshop/c/mple/