CONNECT Player Update Version 1.0.04.16100
A new software update for CONNECT Player is now available for download. The update is of version 1.0.04.16100 and amount to approximately 23 MB (*actual installer size may vary regionally)
Improvements with update Ver.1.0.04.16100
- Improved overall speed of CONNECT Player v. 1.0.04 – startup, transfer, exit program and scroll function.
- Improved support for Enhanced CD
- Improved support for WMA VBR; fixed previous conversion/transfer issue
- Improved bit rate setting issues; fixed previous tracks transfer issue where tracks can’t be transferred at a set bit rate.
- Improved file conversion of a format and its corresponding bit rate during a transfer.
- Improved Gracenote CDDB CD information feature; fixed acquisition of CD information especially for system that employs proxy server.
- ATRAC3plus 352kbps is now supported.
- Retain playlist as M3U file
- Additional dialog/info regarding an operation is available.
DOWNLOAD LINKS: Sony Japan | Sony Europe | Sony Asia-Pacific | Sony Canada
Has anyone tried this Japanese version of Update ..how is it over previous versions of Connect?
I have indeed. With the new update, CP is significantly faster - takes about 4-5 seconds to load (for your reference, my ATRAC library amount to about 32GB).
Update for Europe now available
http://support.sony-europe.com/DNA/ConnectPlayer/Update/Update.asp?l=en
@Ishi: This is great ..
Stunned and amazed !!!!!……. has Sony finally cracked it ????
Starts up even faster than SS, ripped a CD and transferred it without corrupting anything, i’m still pinching myself !!
And it scrolls smoothly as well !
ahh yes. finally 352kbps support!
This runss extremely fast, and tiny http is finally in shape, using hardly any cpu usage. still uses 100mb but its really a good app now.
I’m in Canada. Do you think its OK to download the update from Sony Europe or should I wait until it’s posted on the Sony Canada site?
Finally seems to work
Displays loads of info when it’s doing things now which helps a lot!
Runs fast too yay
You can definitely utilize the European version without any significant issues.
Excellent, Wow it’s so fast the import of my library is amazingly quick, well done Sony.
Well, it’s a good step! though, it’s still the same program with the same lack of everything…
+Japanese CDs imports now WORK. Very, VERY cool.
+The widow size is remembered when CONNECT opens
+Transfer is now fast!
+navigation looks smooth so far
-Still no way to play gapless through the player, wich is kind of stupid for a gapless format like atrac, and for concerts and mixes…
-Still no real clear dialogue boxes to explain what happening (for ex : progress bar) when importing.
-No support for other walkmans than A series
-No tagging options like SS (remembers the previous entries etc) and no possibilities to change a whole album inormation (there’s not even a copy-past function anymore…
-still no option to get infos from cddb for an atrac/mp3 etc nor album cover search (like in SS)
-etc. etc.
Hopefully, the announdes mix of SS and CP out in the nexte months will bring the best of the two players!!
I am just wondering why updating CP won’t update Auto update version so you have to update separately…
And also… my auto update didn’t pick up this recent CP update…
Other than few more issues willykyu picked up, Connect Player works great!!! I just wish Sony will bring this level of software on a launch date in future.
seems to work faster, but still chock full of nasty bugs. I have to format my NW-A3000 it seems, after moving from SonicStage, just to get the tracks on the device to play correctly in Connect.
http://img310.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cp1045mq.jpg
Canada
http://esupport.sony.com/perl/swu-download.pl?mdl=NWA3000&upd_id=2109&os_id=99&PO=3
forgot to mention, my autoupdate worked just fine this morning when the canadian verison was released.
Eagerly waiting for the Asia-Pacific/Chinese version
finally a working version of Connect player
Well about chuffing time! Actually, I’ll hold off on the praise just for now and gently thank Sony for paying attention.
It still slows everything else on my computer down while it’s actually doing anything (like starting up!)
It still looks like a 5 year old designed the UI.
“tinyhttp” still uses staggeringly vast amounts of memory and the CPU.
But at least Sony are clearly trying to do something to alleviate our frustration with their insultingly poor software, so, well, roll on “Connect x SonicStage”…
I think this is a pretty good update. It runs smoothly on my computer, which is a very average spec. I have to disagree about the UI, ‘cos I really like it. Especially compared to SS. If it added the ability to tag your files the way that SS could, then it would be perfect.
I installed it just to test. It’s indeed much more stable, and it doesn’t slow down my computer in a noticeable way. But why it doesn’t recognize tags that you edited in SonicStage? (At least not year, which means you can’t customize that browsing option in the NW-A series.) And by the way, where does it get the information for album artist? Since you don’t have that tag field in SonicStage, how does it fill it out? They should add masstagger options, like in SonicStage.
Of course there is year in the new A series, you can also browse the units by year and also sort by year in the program.
What I meant was that tags edited in SonicStage are not completely recognized by CP. Particularly the case of year. If I edit all years in SonicStage according to what I want (for instance, putting the original release date in an album, instead of its re-release; or the composition date for a classical piece), CP will show all blank and then try to fill with information from Gracenote. Then, what it doesn’t find will remain blank. So in the A series that browsing function will be lost, in a way. And it’s not really viable to edit in CP, since it has to be done track by track.
why can’t you just stick with sonic stage sony and maintain one piece of software on a more regular basis based on customer requests? Your only making your own life harder. puh.. I have both an a series and a nw series I don’t want 2 databases installed but I want all functionality on both machines surely this should be doable? Unless your software engineers are crap.
Can i apply europe/japan/canada update for Asia Pacific version?
You can definitely utilize either version without any significant issues.
Doers anyone know if it workes with Vaio Pocket?
CONNECT Player only works with the NW-A Series (A3000/1000/600). It does not support the VAIO Pocket (VGF-AP1/AP1L).
I don’t believe it, it actually works and works well, I’ve got a huge amount of playlists set up and it even works fast, it transfers tracks fast, thanks sony seems like a good job! Now all you need to do is somehow go back in time and give me this version 5-6 months ago when I brought it and everything will be fine:)
The Traditional Chinese version is available for auto-update and wow it does greatly improve the performance speed. This may give me back some faith to the program and now I will try to see some ripping and transfer of music to my A1000.
Ok, I’m using this new update since the day of its release, and I’m starting to have some problems.
The soft works fine now, it’s a lot smoother, transfer speed is fast etc.
I sync my library with my A-3000, it worked for several albumsn and then: nothing. I initialized the device and tried again. Now, it is impossible to trasnfer anything on the A-3000 from CP. I tried then in SS 3.4, it didnot work either. Then I re-initialized the device, and then it worked in SS. But still impossible to transfer through CP…
I noticed some other issues with importing music from a CD. Sometimes CP doesn’t recognise any CD, and I had to reboot the program.
But I must say that for the rest of it, everything seems to work fine. No such transfer problem with the A-608.
I had also confirmation from Connect service that a new complete version of Sonictsgae with CP functions will be available next month. Hope they’re right.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the artist link doesn’t work for me, does everybodys artist link not work? or is it just me?
Wow it takes a LOOOONG time to load! Oh wait…Its just finished! Time to go and test it! (UK version)
Ill be back…
I loved this for a week then it crashed-wouldn’t let me put any songs on it. So I unistalled it, deleted my library, initailsed the device redid everything. It all came back-could put song on etc. but no artist link-would only update new stuff. Any ideas.
I assume the artist link database was causing the problems as it could be really large linking all the tracks to each other that you have in the library so must have taken it out to fix it maybe?!
well, my artist link still works.
just tried something-I deleted an album from the library then asked it to scan drives-when it gets something back into the menu it updates the srtist link
South Asia Pacific update is now available .
Connect “Sony CONNECT Player Update Version 1.0.04.xxxxx / Auto Update Version 1.0.04.xxxxx”
here ->http://www.css.ap.sony.com/
[...] Sony recently updated their Connect Player software (to version 1.0.04.16100) and I’m very glad to report that it’s a huge, huge improvement. It now runs at a decent speed on my fairly modest Athlon 1800+ system and appears to be stable. Nice one Sony. [...]
Blimey. That’ll be a massive improvement then, in that it actually works now. Bonus!
My thoughts here.
I was amazed when it started up in 5 seconds! And the scrolling…!!!
Credit to Sony for persevering for what looked like a dead duck 6 months ago. Okay they sold us a bad deal originally but they do appear to be trying to make ammends. Lets hope they learn the lesson and release finished products in future. I think it is in part the pressure to innovate and compete. Of course Apple have problems with their products too (more so with hardware, I know so many people with dead iPods, and what about the scratchy Nano’s?), but the public are very forgiving of them.
Can anyone help me? After randomly crashing and deleting all the music from my walkman, Connect player now won’t start up. I’ve tried reinstalling it tons of times (with the update) but when you click on the icon it just hangs on ‘initialzing library’. Eventually it has to be shut down with ctrl-alt-delete. Tinyhttp is using 100%cpu. Am i doomed never to listen to my music again?
Assuming you have XP and Windows is installed on C:
Sounds like a corrupt database. Try uninstalling Connect Player and see if it leaves any crap behind in this directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sony Corporation
This will delete the database but won’t delete your music, you can then reimport everything once you’ve got it up and running again.
Alternatively, you can download Sonicstage and import all of your music into there, sadly track information sometimes screws up when you import between the two programs
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Yep - seems to work a lot better than the version supplied with the walkman, but still a few bugs…
Also - it annoys me that people are saying thanks to sony for this - IT SHOULD HAVE WORKED OUT OF THE BOX!!!
Anyway, i guess at least it works a lot better now.
Shame they don’t just upgrade the firmware on the device to allow you to drag n drop onto the device - then if the firmware detects that any files have changed it re populates the database itself! (no need to “convert” .mp3 to .oma anymore! (even though they’re still .mp3’s!
But then we wouldn’t need the crappy software would we!
Sony lost a fortune on these new walkmans - so many people just took them back when they couldn’t get the bloody software to work! (Hope they’ve done a better job with the ps3!!!!!)
IMHO!
James.
Got CONNECT to work finally (nearly cried when the unit wiped itself) but now I’m having to restart the program for every new cd I want to rip into it. Anyone got any ideas?
Softwares much better now! But there’s a problem! If you have two different sony mp3 player models (NW-E002 and AW-1000)well there isn’t a button or setting to detect other sony mp3 devices! (the sonic stage which came with my NW-E002 is pants and doesn’t even load)
Ive just downloaded this update…gone through the whole installation process etc etc..clicked on the icon, however when it got to ‘building interface’ the window just closes…as it did with the previous version?!?!any ideas anyone!?
Get SonicStage CP
I’m facing some difficulties with my nw-a3000. Let’s not mention the speed of connect player 1.0 but now when I updated the player it even won’t put music on… Does anyone have a solution to my problem?!
just bought a nw-a3000 yesterday all the same probs but i have deleted all of the folders now when i look in removable disk f (nw-a3000) it is just an empty folder i assume i need those as it wont even link to ole crappy connect is there a somewhere i can download them?
Your site is very cognitive. I think you will have good future.:)
Can the connect software be used to download podcasts direct from websites, for example Radio 1 in the UK?
i have an mp3 Nw-e002 . i added some music and it say no database , i cant hear any music from my mp3 , when i conect it to my PC , in that MP3 show me the songs that i added , i can hear it from my PC , but on my MP3 , i cant . help
Hello, does anyone know if its possible to edit the track information an album at a time insted of the single tracks?, for example, if i want to add the artist name to an album, i would usually have to edit each track one at a time, is there a quicker way?
im using connect player version 1.0.04.16100
thanks
Hi, I have a NW-A3000 and it seems to be formatted as a FAT32. Is this normal as my player no longer registers it being there. Sony are useless at giving me answers.
Thanks
Slumpig
Hi, I got my NW-A3000 about 4 weeks ago loaded the latest version of Connect. It worked great, although when I updated the firmware it took for ages. Well, yesterday I switched it on and nothing! No database found although there should have been about 200+ tracks.
I reconnected to the Connect software but it would not update, even after resetting and reinitialising the HD. The HD seems to be formatted as a FAT 32, so reinitialised twice on the player and from Connect, but always appears as FAT 32.
Tried again today and lo - Connect recognises it. I loaded one track and it works. Now I don’t know what to do with it
Anyone else had this problem?
Thanks
Mike
Hi i have an NW-A1000 and i have lost my connect player software cd..i have tryed sonic stage but didnt work…can u tell me were i can find connect player download?…pls mail me at alaiza_dmn@yahoo.com .Thanks
Alaiza said:
You can attempt to install CONNECT Player manually by referring to steps outlined within this thread at our forum.
holas
bu pédo instalarlo
Can anyone here help me my sony walkman nw-a3000 keeps saying connect compliant software does anyone here have a solution i’ve tried downloading sonic stage cp this didn’t work and i tried re installing my origanal connect player but this didn’t work so PLEASE HELP ME?
hello pipl (:
big trouble.i’m lost my CD with CONNECT player distrib, plz send me e-mail with this program? without auto- or updater. Senks a lot.
Sorry, my english is very bad ):
kann mir wer helfen ich habe ein problem mit meinen sony walkmann mp3 player 1 gb ich kann lieder drauf geben und ich schalte ihn ein und es steht no data base bitte was kann ich machen
Can anyone here help me my sony walkman nw-a1000 keeps saying connect compliant software does anyone here have a solution i’ve tried downloading sonic stage cp this didn’t work and i tried re installing my origanal connect player but this didn’t work so PLEASE HELP ME?
Can anyone here help me my sony walkman nw-a1000 keeps saying connect compliant software does anyone here have a solution i’ve tried downloading sonic stage cp this didn’t work and i tried re installing my origanal connect player but this didn’t work so PLEASE HELP ME?
the mssage “connect compliant software”is always on my walkman…
plz ????????????????
send the answer at my e-mail “ahmad_btnh@yahoo.com”…
ahmad bataineh said:
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can any one help me i have tried to download connect play, but when i think it has done i get a box that comes up saying, (THE TARGET SOFTWARE FOR THIS MODULE IS NOT INSTALLED) any ideas please
I have an Sony NWA 1000 and an IMac. Can anyone tell me how to get it to work on the Imac? When I insert the Connect disc it asks for an application and I can go no further?? Do I need to download any thing and from where to get clear start up instruction.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew the answer to my problem. I’m using the sonicstage software ver 4.0. I’m trying to change the track information by going on the properties of the track but it won’t let me. It keeps bringing up a box saying:
‘Track properties cannot be edited because one or more of the track’s music files are read-only or editing privileges have not been granted’
How do I change this so I can change the track information?
problems trying to run sonic stage soft were. now unable to load any more cds my players is soney nw-e005
can anyone help me with getting the connect player program back, my computer crashed and the hard drive was re-placed. so i no longer have the installation disc, i lost it a long time ago, just hoping i would never need it again… what can i do to get the program back? can anyone send it to me or something please
i cant seem to download a version of connect player that doesnt need an internet connection. Surly you can download connect player onto a disk then take it to a computer without internet and install it. Not every one has internet access. Sony must have accounted for this. Other wise they are excluding a lot of people from buying their products
Hey, please someone help me i have the latest version of sony connect player (version 1.0.04.16100) and have the sony nwa3000.
when i open connect player it doesn’t load my library and closes by itself alot of the time, it updated my mp3 with the artist link etc, then when i went to put songs on it it just closed, what do i do?, this has been fine for ages now it is being weird, if i you used sonicstage cp instead will it wipe my mp3 library?
email me back at rob_sl8r@hotmail.co.uk or comment back please
ok don’t worry about my previous problem i am now using sonicstage and it works fine and my mp3 files are safe. however my ratings have all changed on the songs i had it set on auto so i could play my top 100 every now and then, why has this messed up please help?
my friend deleted my version of connect on my laptop and i cant find my disk anywhere and now i cant put new stuff on my mp3 player…i cant find it to download anywhere?!?!? any help?? it doesnt want to connect to sonicstage either
that fucking connect player can’t find my nwa1000!!! but the pc does find it but not that connectplayer1.0.04.16100!! help please
i need the update connectplayer1.0.04.16100, where could i find it ???
Quoted from haha- “that f***ing connect player can’t find my nwa1000!!! but the pc does find it but not that connectplayer1.0.04.16100!! help please”
I have exactly the same problem. I have tried reinstalling the stupid thing because it happened once before and that solved it but it’s not responding to that this time round. HELP!
Umm HELP!
I have the sony nw-a1000
and i dont have the installing disc.
what version of connect player should i be downloading?!
Thanks
Umm HELP!
I have the sony nw-a1000
and i dont have the installing disc.
what version of connect player should i be downloading?!
ahhh!