Are Sony are finally getting serious about the attack of the iPod? Probably too little too late but their latest line of Hard-drive/Network Walkman look nice.
I went to a “My Sony” preview hosted by Sony New Zealand last month. A, previously dealer only, product preview was opened to customers registered through the My Sony site. The focus was a new LCD TV range but the full product range, including Walkman, was on display. I was impressed with the 1 Gb solid-state Network Walkman and asked if they still used SonicStage to manage content.
I was disappointed to find they do as have found SonicStage an awful application to use, maintain and upgrade. “SonicStage Horrors” is one of my most visited posts found by people searching for help with corrupted data, upgrades gone bad and other problems. I will never purchase DRM content on-line and trust it to SonicStage, or other similar software, after seeing a simple software upgrade corrupt an entire content database. All I lost was time as the content was all from CD’s I own but imagine the pain, and cost, if it had meant losing downloaded content.
There was some hope in the response as was told “there are some big changes coming for SonicStage”. If the report on Engadget is correct it appears that SonicStage may die . I hope so as Sony make great audio hardware then ruin it with awful software.
The latest chapter in Sony’s sea change — SonicStage dies - Engadget
