I have my hands ON the Sony X1000 Walkman - Impressions / Discussions - Page 25

Don't convert to wma lossless, the X doesn't support it, it only supports regular wma files.

Album art is showing up beautifully on mine at 500 x 500.

cn11 - Poppy got stung for a lot more because he had to have a John Lewis one and a low serial number

Duncan, the bitrate you're referring to (I think), is if you use the Sony software to rip the CDs in the first place. My wma files on the X are all over 300kbps and I've never used the Sony software to rip a CD.

PrinceOfEgypt - you can convert to wma vbr at the highest quality setting, or AAC and the other supported formats via dBpoweramp. You're just looking to convert your lossless files for the Sony, is that right? If you're ripping them again, you can choose your own settings so long as you don't use the Sony software, because the maximum supported bitrates are poor.

Hi again

Don't give up! You definitely cannot use wma lossless on the X, or any other Sony daps as far as I know.

I convert from lossless to wma using this setting in dBpoweramp -



And I have album art on my WAV files on my other Sony daps, but I haven't got round to transferring the rest of my music onto the X yet, but there's no reason why it should be any different.


Duncan - my phones were due to arrive between 9 and 5, and they arrived at 5 - I'm about to open them and have a play, I mean, a listen!

You can transfer using Windows Explorer if you want, that's what I've been doing. If you're converting from lossless, then create another folder in your music folder called 'lossy' for example - and then point dBpoweramp at that folder when you convert so that the lossy and lossless stay separate. Then you can simply drag and drop straight from the lossy folder to the X. But make sure your tags are correct and that your album art is there before transferring, because you can't edit anything once it's on the Sony. Well, I can't anyway, I have to delete from the Sony, correct the tags, and then transfer back again

And as for what sounds best, I agree with walkingman, convert a few tracks into different formats and then see if you prefer one over the other. All my lossy music is a mix of high-bitrate wma vbr, AAC and mp3 and I can't tell the difference between any of them because I don't listen out for it, and they all sound good!