Sony NW-E016 (4GB)
User Review for Sony NW-E016 (4GB)
There are alternatives to SS
Oct 24, 2007Rating: 8 out of 10 (Excellent)
Pros: Great sound quality, nice design, good battery endurance, supports WMA and AAC (not protected)
Cons: the horrible and dumb Sonic Stage, can't delete files from the device itself, can't create playlists in the device itself
Opinion:
A great device indeed, great sound, clear and smart interface, a lot of sound and play modes, the option to made your own 5 band EQ, and others interesting features built in a small, nice and well design piece of hardware. BUT the PC software to manage the music is without a doubt one of the worst softwares I had manipulated. To many headaches to transfer music, to and from the player. The organization system of Sonicstage is just sick and exasperating. The software demands a lot of CPU resources, is buggy, hard to figure it out and got a poor and cheap interface that complicates to find the songs and create playlists. I almost return the device cuz deal with the software was a pain in the...well, you know. Hopefully, there are alternatives to Sonicstage (developed by users of the player)such "ML_SONY" (a plugin for winamp) or NW-E00X MP3 FM and VOIDMP3FM ("drag&drop" like interfaces that must be copied in the device to execute in any computer). However, these softwares have his cons: "ML_SONY", sometimes crashes Winamp and don't support the jacket mode, the second needs java in the system to work (that's not bad at all, made possible to operate in a Macintosh to), no support jacket mode neither playlist. The third has the same cons of the previous, plus is a little bit unestable and works only in microsoft windows.
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