How do you create playlists on Sony 4GB Walkman? That's my biggest issue with this player. Playlists are so important to me, probably one of the most important features for me. How do I create various playlists with this player? It was so easy with the IPOD.Update: Nevermind! Got it! Now I am happy! How do you create playlists on Sony 4GB Walkman? That's my biggest issue with this player. Playlists are so important to me, probably one of the most important features for me. How do I... » Read More How do you create playlists on Sony 4GB Walkman? That's my biggest issue with this player. Playlists are so important to me, probably one of the most important features for me. How do I create various playlists with this player? It was so easy with the IPOD.Update: Nevermind! Got it! Now I am happy! « Show Less
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I tested out the WalkmanMTP on my 4 gig sony walkman and it worked fine for me ... thanks. Sony Walkman Model# NWZ-E436F
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You cannot create playlists on-the-fly on the device - you have to use either Winamp or Windows Media Player to create and transfer them (or Napster, actually). Amazingly, Sony's new "Media Manager" cannot create playlists, or even import them.
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Download the utility from here. Works perfectly.http://code.google.com/p/walkmanmtp/downloads/detail?name=WalkmanMTP_0.4.2.0.zip&c;an=2&q;=
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WalkmanMPT worked just perfectly on my NWZ-E344 to satisfactorily create playlists, agree with Boldwyn amazing that new Sony's software not even imports playlists! I struggled over 2 hours to figure how to successfully sync the playlists using Windows Media Player 11 with the device... whenever I sync'd the device in, it just only copied the files and didn't create anything but folders not playlists, that's was exactly what I didn't want. Thank you all.
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Yeah! I tried it and I like it (WalkmanMTP). Not perfectly intuitive but much easier than WMP. Worked nicely, but read the Read Me file for howtos.Thanks Vijay, good call.
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Hi One thing about these I-Pod players is they don't a have long life. Mine only lasted a 1 1/2 Years and It quit on the I-pod dock the radio still worked and I never tried the Aux Cable. I went and spent a little moremoney on the next one. I bought the Sony and it has held up for almost 3 years. But the reviews about the Sony said the same not a very long life. Just waiting on this one to go out. I know this isn't much help, just my problems with the same player you have.
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Many, if not most Sony Walkman MP3 models have included FM tuners and will list it (including 8 GB models). This specific model doesn't seem to have one, but broaden your search to other Sony Walkmans. I bought one a bunch of years ago and replaced it (the first one got lost). I absolute love Sony Walkman, the quality is great, battery life is fabulous. And mine most definitely has an FM tuner.
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The organization has improved greatly with the newest firmware, no playlist support yet but it will come. The menus are very intuitive for my taste, it's definitely not an Apple product (which I think is a good thing)You can use artist/album/song browsing and you can also organize into folders so you could actually set up folders with your songs as playlists, so if you were so inclined I'd make a folder called "1Jogging Music" and have your music for jogging in there are just use the folder view to find it.
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Yes you can make a playlist. This is the easiest MP3 player to add music to that I've found so far. But for sure there is a playlist available. Good luck
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The product info said "It automatically organizes your MP3 files into different artists, styles, genre and album" ... I didn't remember it would do that cause it took me nearly a year to decide to learn how to convert my iTunes music to play on this player. I never found a note in the manual about this and I think that the playlists are not something you can do, but rather it's an id tag on your music. Read that product info again on the page. It makes this album thing sound like a plus when now I can't get my player to just play all the music one after another. I don't think it will be an easy thing to make your own playlist with it. I've only just now thought to look for a web site for them: http://pyruselectronicswebsite.blogspot.com/ Time for me to do more research...
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Hey - I too am in Birgitta's position, trying to decide whether I should stick with iPods or go over to Zune. I currently own a iPod Mini and did not like how the battery went bad and now can only be played once before the iPod says that the battery is low and goes out. I am trying to decide whether to get a 80G Zune or an 80G iPod classic. My main question is - being an iPod owner, I have put so much time into my iTunes organizing it, putting in cover art, etc.If I was to buy a Zune, can I get everything out of the iTunes, including cover art?thanks
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No, I can't remember all of the issues, but Playlists was one, their album info was another. I returned mine and bought a Sony Walkman, and I love it.
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Yes, you can make on-the-go playlists. In fact, if you hit the "menu" button while it's playing, one of your options is "Add to playlist". You can create your own playlists at anytime, anywhere you are.
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I just put songs on the mini disc. I do not know how to navigate on the mp3 to establish different playlists. Look on youtube and possibly there will be a how to video there?
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Your wrong about this my friend! I have used a Sony Walkman of sort for 6 years. It does have a volume control Just above the center control button is an arrow pointing up, while the music is playing press that arrow and the volume will go up. If you want to turn it down, press the arrow at the bottom of the main button. This unit is the best there is on the market. I have had no problems what so ever with the units that I have purchased from Amazon.
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Have you listened the etymotic er4p.Compared with it.You will find out.By the way,mac and iphone is very light.Maybe you should use any one of the sony player.It will be improved.Don't compare with,lika Ie80 and so on.That's all Dynamic.My player are one x and sony book.
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I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't imagine just having to skip track to track just to find an artist/song i want to listen to. Hope this helps. I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't... » Read More I already owned 2 mp3 players prior to purchasing this product. I believe the biggest benefit to using your own mp3 player is the ability to organize your music and quickly and easily being able to change artists/genres etc. based on your mood. Using a memory stick, you would be able to skip from track to track, but not necessarily select the artist/song you'd like, i would imagine it just skips to the next song in the queue. If you currently don't own an mp3 player, it might not be absolutely necessary to purchase one. With the amount of music I currently have on my mp3 player, I can't imagine just having to skip track to track just to find an artist/song i want to listen to. Hope this helps. « Show Less
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You can scroll through the songs, but there is no shuffle feature. What I sometimes do is create a folder with various songs I like and load it onto the player. That's as close to a shuffle as you can get with this unit.
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Yes! This is the best player I've ever had. No cords! Awesome. Gets tiresome perhaps to your ears if marathon training and going 2+ hours, but wish I'd gotten one a long time ago. Loved the postage style ipod clip, but got so tired of the earbud cords. Love Sony and this great product. Highly recommend. Of note, had to practice getting it in my left ear, but eventually got very easy.
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I'm waiting for a 128gb flash player that SOUNDS good, and can be loaded with a standard usb cable, and not requiring some proprietary software (read itunes). I test drove a 64gb ipod touch when it first came out, because my 16gb cowon iaudio7 is too small, but it sounded terrible, admittedly it was a stock set of tunes ripped at a low bit rate, but when I wanted to load up my own max bit rate tunes to it, the geniuses at the apple store couldn't fathom why someone would want to listen to tunes they'd ripped themselves, or how to make it happen. Hopefully someone raises the bar on storage space and sound quality, neither of which should be hard at this point. I wish someone would swing for the fences and do a flash 256gb player. I have to admit, I'm anachronistic, in that I don't want internet access, apps, videos, etc. just a gigantic music player that's not disk based (use it on a motorcycle, drop it constantly on the commute), that sounds fantastic and has great battery life. The more things a device does, the performance of each of those things suffers.
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Patricia I created mine on my desktop and then moved it to the player in the playlist folder. I believe with the software from Sony you can create one by dragging music to it and then over to the player. Hope that helps!