Quoth wrote the following as part of a post:
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Originally Posted by Quoth
I still have an NetMD minidisc player and can use a Chromium browser to manage it instead of the nasty Sony Windows program.
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I've heard about the Sony music management software, SonicStage. Sony mandated it with their initial Sony Walkman digital audio players (DAP), and without it your computer could not see the Walkman DAP. The software was so bad that although their Walkman DAPs were great, the software caused them to get poor ratings. Plus, at that time their DAPs were not actually MP3 players. Instead, the software would convert MP3s into Sony's proprietary ATRAC format before loading them on the DAP.
Later, Sony dropped SonicStage (you could use any music management program although drag-and-drop was flawed) and added MP3 support for their players. That's when I started using their DAPs. My first Sony Walkman DAP was the first one that actually played MP3s. They did replace SonicStage with MediaGo which, although it had some issues, was a good program that I used until they stopped supporting it. Unfortunately, they replaced it with Music Center for PC which is basically unusable for me.