The New VAIO Pocket HDD Player...

[admin]

... what is your opinion? Let's talk about it!!!

[kee-lo_]

Your English is very good.

[robpaxton]

For all the people that says that it doesn't plays MP3, that's good. Anyone that uses Sony players knows that SonicStage is the best music manager in the world.

In order:

It's not good.
It's most definately is not.

Although I concede that ATRAC3/Plus does sound good there are better sounding formats out there.

[kee-lo_]

I have to agree whole heartly with Rob - SonicStage sucks and ATRAC too.

AAC is much better

[jammold]

ATRAC is fine... Besides which Fraunhoffer Gesellschaft IIS have patents regarding the use and transfer of MP3 data - I am also a fan of OGG Vorbis (VORBIS) but it is not yet a portable audio format... Never have been that keen on AAC either.

If these units have tons of space then WAV is the best all round - no compression = 100% faithful to the original recording.:smileytongue:

[kee-lo_]

Yuck, WAV!?
might as well carry CDs
Vorbis is very good, and I hope it gets into players soon.

[jammold]

Yuck, WAV!?

Why not? Since I dont own millions of CD's and intend to listen to only say less than 100 songs (because I change my mind often), WAV's would be perfect, 1 minute = 10MB in PCM WAV, you can't get better quality uncompressed than this!

Vorbis should catch on soon... I use vorbis more than MP3 and even Winamp has support for this cool format.

[kee-lo_]

I like to keep my collection with me on holiday.
Apple Lossless is just as good as WAV.

[jammold]

Probably is. Never tried it. Trouble is, the minute you use MP3 like any compression alogorithm is that data is thrown away. I also like WAV because Syntrillium's Cool Edit 2000 (now owned by Adode - Yuck!) is extremely fast to process - it even warns you (like Audacity does) that this is a lossy format. So there!:smileytongue:

[kee-lo_]

I'm a Cool Edit fan too James.
So what if you loose some data? Most of the high end you can't hear anyway.

[jammold]

High-end - being between 18KHz to 20KHz? I can! Maximum for human hearing is up to 22KHz. It makes a difference.:smileygrin:

Trust me, I'm a mad scientist!:smileylaugh: