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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
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.
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Inherited from NetMD if I remember the order. Picture a DAP except it uses MiniDisc (MD) for storage instead of flash. The software was excruciatingly slow, it required importing all music into it's own library system, and any download to the device locked the track out of playback on the host and downloading to other discs.
Brilliant technology utterly ruined by Sony's vice-grip desire to control everything. I used to be a big MiniDisc fan and proponent. NetMD thoroughly ruined that.