After many many delays and lots of usage time, I finally post my long awaited VAIO Pocket review. It’s a little long winded but I felt like I needed to cover a lot of stuff about it.
Yes, it comes with headphones. I briefly mention them in the review. Basically, I’ve never used them because they are unexceptional and I already have a pair of good headphones.
Great review. I would agree with a lot of your complaints and it’s a good effort for their first HDD player, however, with the market being what it was for years they should have learned from other’s mistakes.
If it was about $100 less I think it would have done much better in the marketplace.
Kind of like “crossfading†but not quite. Gapless playback is the ability to play two or more audio tracks seamlessly into each other. For example, when you listen to film scores and house/trance/techno music - you don’t hear that 2 seconds gap between tracks; the tracks flow from one to another seamlessly. The MiniDisc format supports gapless playback, whereas the Mp3 format does not.
Great job on the review! I agree with you, Sony is not going to capture a large share of the market if it does not go with universal standards such as MP3; proprietary public goods is not the way to go now, we are talking about compatibility amongst the electronic devices that we are using. So, if Sony continues to live in their “Imperialism” mindset, they ain’t going to secure anything more than a niche market for themselves. However, I do like Sony products… and I do hope that they really rethink their strategies for the future. (and maybe, much more compatibility with lower prices! :D that’s what is really missing from their products now.)
i’ll buy as soon as sony put mp3s as one of the playback format. all my songs are mp3s and it’ll be pain to transfer it to ATRAC.
is it possible to transfer songs without using sonicstage? like ‘drag n drop’ acting as a drive?
also, how does the LCD display the songs? by ID info or file name? i never own digital music player, so i would like to know how ipod and others display the songs as well.
The VAIO Pocket doesn’t support gapless audio from what I can tell. At least, it’s not as gapless as my MD players. There seems to be a pause.
I’ll add a pic of Music Move. It supports drag and drop (one way). I actually end up dragging and dropping MP3s directly from iTunes (ironic no?) or from Windows Explorer and it works perfectly.
I wanted one of these things when they were first released, until I heard they don’t have support for native MP3s. Once (if?) Sony includes this in a future Pocket VAIO I’ll have one!
[quote author=“MegaManXcalibur”]I wanted one of these things when they were first released, until I heard they don’t have support for native MP3s. Once (if?) Sony includes this in a future Pocket VAIO I’ll have one!
