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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: goatherder on August 06, 2007, 05:58:25 pm

Title: Sony?
Post by: goatherder on August 06, 2007, 05:58:25 pm
I realise this is probably akin to asking whether the entire development team of MC would post a photo giving each other goatses, but I wonder if the idea of supporting Sony Walkman devices which normally use Sonicstage has ever been thrown up.
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: JimH on August 06, 2007, 06:06:31 pm
Sony was a very closed world for a long time.  We tried many times to break down the walls.  Eventually, we gave up.

I've read that their recent devices are not just ATRAC, and might be possible.  It would be easy to test with MC12.
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: goatherder on August 06, 2007, 06:34:32 pm
The very latest (the B series) is UMS. I don't know whether this is part of a bigger move or just a test toe in the water. But what I'm interested in are the devices which depend on Sonicstage for loading but don't use the old totally locked-down DRM.
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: JimH on August 06, 2007, 06:58:12 pm
The very latest (the B series) is UMS.
Wikipedia definition of UMS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_mass_storage_device_class)
Is that what you mean?

If so, it's probably just a drive to Windows and MC12 should be able to write to it.

But it's possible that the device expects something special.

Could you try it?
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: goatherder on August 07, 2007, 02:05:42 am
As I said, the *latest* is UMS, so it should work just fine with j.River. What I'm interested in are those that don't, and require Sonicstage in order to work.
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: JimH on August 07, 2007, 06:30:14 am
What I'm interested in are those that don't, and require Sonicstage in order to work.
Those won't work.  They're closed to MC.
Title: Re: Sony?
Post by: goatherder on August 08, 2007, 02:46:53 pm
Figured as much. Guess it's finally time to unload the useless, pretty POS's.