Overseas Model Customer Support

11/August/2006

IMPORTANT NOTE :

This software is not intended to be used for any other model as mentioned below ! This update requires a previously installed CONNECT Player version on your computer.

Sony offers this CONNECT Player Software Update for the owners of the following Network WALKMAN :

NW-A1000
NW-A3000

CONNECT Player Software version 1.0.00.10190 / 1.0.01.11020 / 1.0.02.11170 / 1.0.03.13130

Supports Atrac3plus 352Kbps ripping
Playlists can be saved in M3U format
Information dialog boxes added

1.0.00.10190

CONNECT Player software hangs when exiting
Windows Security warning message is displayed when CONNECT Player software is started
CONNECT Player software reports script errors when accessing the CONNECT Store within the application
CONNECT Player software displays “tinyhttp.exe” error message when more than 1.000 tracks are being transferred to the device.
CONNECT Player software instability after having imported more than 3000 tracks into the application
Connect Player software does not restart after having dragged and dropped more than 3000 tracks from the library into the 'Now Playing' queue.

1.0.00.10190 / 1.0.01.11020

CD Extra and WMA are supported
Improved Audio CD Ripping
Improved New Playlist creation
Improved Track Transfer / Editing and Sorting
Improved Gracenote CDDB registration
"Tinyhttp.exe" error while formatting A-series WALKMAN in CONNECT Player has been solved

1.0.00.10190 / 1.0.01.11020 / 1.0.02.11170

Editing information of tracks is not reflected properly
Tracks can't be transferred with a different bitrate
Database stability improvement
CD Ripping issue when drive letter is not a Capital letter
Track's rating might not be reflected when "Group By" is changed
Search function is not working when there are spaces in the keywords
Library stability improvement when using drag & drop feature
Deleting track from library / device can cause instability to the application
Some transferred tracks might not be played back
Editing Metadata information can cause trouble in the sorting of tracks
Ripped tracks quality could be altered after cancelling the ripping

1.0.00.10190 / 1.0.01.11020 / 1.0.02.11170 / 1.0.03.13130

Improved general processing speed of the application
CD Extra is supported
WMA (VBR) can be transcoded to OMA
Track transfer stability improved
Transcoding of transferred tracks is improved
CDDB connection improved

Launch the CONNECT Player software.
Click on Help button
Click on About CONNECT Player
CONNECT Player version will be displayed

A popup window will appear informing you there is a software update available
Follow the onscreen instructions in order to update the version of CONNECT Player software
Restart your computer when the process will be finished

Make sure that the new Software Version is 1.0.04.16100

　(English Version - 17Mb)

IMPORTANT NOTE :

Manual installation is only needed if Automatic Update is not possible !

Download CP-PM-Update-1.0.04.16100-English_UK.exe by accepting below disclaimer and save it to a download directory.
If you have a different language version select the required language first by using the language dropdown box at the left side of this page
Go to the download directory and double-click CP-PM-Update-1.0.04.16100-English_UK.exe to start the installation.
The CONNECT Player Ver.1.0.04 Update Program Wizard starts.
Click Next and wait while Setup installs the new software
Click Finish when the installation is completed and restart your computer.


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