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The Sony/MP3 Saga Continues
Renegade Lisp writes "Sony's rolling out their new line of flash-based music players to the
market these days. More stylish than ever, they surely look like a
serious attempt to regain territory lost to the iPod, and perhaps even
to create the Walkman of the 21st century. And it looks like Sony has
finally given in to consumer pressure: these new "MP3 players" can
finally play MP3 natively, not just Sony's proprietary ATRAC format.
But wait -- you cannot just put your MP3s onto the device, you have to
run them through Sony's obfuscation software first. The obfuscated
files, when installed properly on the device, can be played. But you
can't just move them around, share them with your friends, whatever.
Well, of course the obfuscation scheme has already been broken by a
brave hacker. But is this really the way to create the "Network
Walkman" of the 21st century? Sony, please wake up!"
who finds 98% of british people horribly unattractive? the two girls in the picture on sony's site are horrible. i'm glad i don't live there.
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The first link points to the new NW-E400 series of Sony flash MP3 players but the story is about an older model (NW-S23). I haven't heard anything about the NW-E400 having this DRM. Can anyone point me to an article or review that proves this? Otherwise, this story is just a troll (and it worked).
Who said Freedom was Fair?
I dont' understand your criticism.
If you really want all that manual intervention, you can do that with iTunes. Create a playlist, drag whatever you want into it sine iTunes allows numerous ways to sort the music, and then set the preference to only load that playlist onto your iPod. Sync. Done.