Difficult to Navigate among Music Folders
346539
This is NOT a positive review.  The stereo sounds great, and the integration with the TomTom GPS is satisfactory, but I've been hoping for a firmware upgrade.  With the exception of not having any panel lighting until you turn the unit on, the hardware seems OK though I haven't tried the bluetooth portion.  My biggest complaint is that trying to navigate among tunes on as USB device is very difficult.  I've found myself poking at the d&*^ed screen while at stop lights, trying to go to another album, etc.  The SONY firmware programmers didn't seem to expect anyone to have more than one level of folders under the root.  Stop lights just aren't long enough to get to the right tune or folder.

C'mon SONY, give it another shot.  I'm waiting for that upgrade...
2816010
The classical music lovers among us will usually want to know who the composer is.  (This is a definite failing by Amazon; however some kind souls have provided the information in the reviews for certain "albums".)  As someone has mentioned you can often find the composer in two ways.  Right click on the file, choose "Properties", and it should show up under one of the tabs.  You may also choose your Windows Explorer view as "Details".  Right click on the column heading bar and choose to include "Composers".

Alas, neither method works for this "album".  "Composers" is blank.  But guess what?  You can find the composer under the "Conductor" column.  Sometimes.  In other cases it is actually the conductor's name.  Do you know how to tell which one you will find?  If the conductor's name is included in the "Title" column, it will be repeated in the "Conductor" column.  Otherwise the composer's name appears as the "conductor".  Sloppy!
4406916
I wish it was easier to move files onto my drive and I need a way to share links with coworkers and it isn't working.
1852139
I spend a lot of time on my computer organizing pictures I have taken.  I like to open up a  file of pictures, select 'thumbnail' view, and then drag and drop pictures in the order I want.  For some unfathomalbe reason, Microsoft has removed this capability from Win7 and files within directories can only be auto-arranged alphabetically, by date, or a few other options.  If you like to use this capability, you'd better stick with Vista (or even better - XP, as there seemes to be bugs with rearranging in Vista).  Otherwise there are some usefull feature that seeme to work well.  Just don't count on the upgrade from Vista to be as straight-forward as the reviewers seem to think.  My USB no longer worked consistantly and to fix it took hours on the phone with Microsoft and finally downloading an untested patch that they have not released yet.
588826
1st off it does not simply organize by album.  you can choose genre, album, artist, or simply folder.  using the room software i browse on my pc to where the music is located and right click the choose transfer.  after it transfers i pick up the player and from the main menu scroll down to FOLDER, then browse my music via folder.  i don't understand what is soo hard about this people, i had this thing figured out with in 5 minutes of opening the box.  the display on it is brilliantly clear and ledgible, it makes me with that it had video playback as well.

my only qaums with it are poor control over the user set eq's and that the internal drive is a bit noisy at times.
2964763
It wouldn't let me change songs. The  volumes were weird and I can't even play more than half of the songs I put in it.
214537
Song info is wrong on 3/4's of the tracks.  At least it's not the info for a completely different collection which happens too often. Wrong
idenentifiers make collections very hard to work with.
3344563
would it have been so hard to include an index of artists and album titles, maybe even catalog numbers?
4043448
I can't find the review link for the Amazon Music Kindle App, but this app is the most frustrating app I have ever used.  The PC version seems better, but the Kindle App drives me insane!  When you are trying to sort newly added music into playlists, it will just jump all over the place, from #150 to #32 or something crazy.  You get totally lost and have to re-orient yourself and find your place again.  It's insane!
1772254
The file name and folder structure is WAY too long
My windows PC could not even play it with the original name and folders
4238894
I wish app would allow me to arange songs in my playlists...otherwise app is great!
4192620
Just not easy to use, and gave up trying to get this into iGigBook or Unrealbook through iTunes..  Right now I have 400 shortcuts on my desktop, none of which indicate what the song title is,that I have to delete, and laptop is crashing every time need to delete this.  Try the new Sher download of the New Real Book for $18.00, much easier to use and can easily bookmark the tunes you want.
2379619
im used to windows so this is a big change. good for browsing. but working with files and documents is frustrating
3739965
This player seems good for people that have a collection of MP3s in a single playlist and just want to listen to them.  For myself, I have different genres of music that I like to listen to the exclusion of the others.  I tried organizing the files by directories, but the player seems to group them together in one big list.  I tried organizing them by genre via MP3 tag, it seems content to ignore some tags.  I suspect that the issue is the file format that I'm using and/or the format version of the tags.

The interface is a little clumsy.  The buttons function one way when in browse mode and another for playing.  Something else that I noted, is that there seems to be a number of cheap MP3 players who's interface and graphics look _really_ similar.  I am wondering if someone put out a chip that reads and plays MP3s.

As for the MP3 organizational problem, I think I'll just buy several small SD cards and group my music that way.  It's a little inconvenient, but it should work.  Note: It does not group internal memory and external card.  You either play music from the SD card or the internal memory.  Unless there is a button that I missed somewhere ....

Bottom line: If you have a collection of songs that you want either in linear or or random and want something cheap, this should work for you.  It's light weight, good battery life, physical on/off switch, internal speaker, acts as a USB device for moving files around, 1/8" speaker output for external speaker or headphones all at a good price point. In short, a general MP3 player not an MP3 organizer.
3012116
The navigation is a little hard to get around on. Needs to be simpler to use such as select chapter & verse,
3766107
It's very difficult to choose a music book without being able to see at least a page or two of it to see if it fits your needs.  I don't love every arrangement in this book (and really....that would be unusual), but I am very pleased with several of them so this made this a good purchase for me. Music not too simple and not too difficult, and a good selection.  Just what I was looking for. Thumbs up!
418188
the help section could be more open. the midi sounds are pretty good but could really use more work. the interface is very very
good and deserves kudos.