Sony Walkman NW-Z1070 (Japan Version) – Help for Dummies thread - Page 8

awesome, thanks The Walrus, I do have media go as i have a few sony laptops as well as sonicstage.  

Do you mean drag & drop doesn't work on the Japanese version? I find that hard to believe as it is absolutely  fine with my EU version. The  headphone supplied are also shockingly good.

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Setting it to English is very easy. When you turn it on for the first time, it asks for the language, then all menus are in English. (There is one android app that is in Japanese, but I couldn't figure out what it's for.) You won't have any language related issues, but I doubt that dragging and dropping will work. At first, I tried Windows MP to transfer music files. WMP put everything in the MUSIC folder, but then the device could not see anything to play. (Strange) I use Media Go now. That way, everything is in order and you get the album art as well. As you notice from my post, you can create playlists easily. So I suggest using Media Go.

The only drawback of this device (like all Walkmans or Walkmen) is that it doesn't support gapless playback. Also, if you will pay $500 for a DAP, you'd better use it with some solid headphones instead of the supplied earphones. I use it with Ultrasone Pro 2900 and am very satisfied with the sound quality. 
I hope this helps.

Interesting. I don't have a media-go folder on mine. Just drop everything in the Music folder and had no issues 

Like I said, I didn't actually try to drag and drop my audio files in the music folder. Maybe it was that I used WMP. Even though after I transfered everything in WMP they ended up in the Music folder, when I tried the player there was nothing. That was strange. But the solution is simple, try drag&drop first, if it doesn't work use mediago or sonicstage. Just stay away from WMP :-)
(Yep, I don't have a MediaGo folder either. MG places the music files in Music folder.)

Window Media Player works just fine on my Z-1070 only thing you have to manualy add album art even when WMP automaticly find the album art.

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Originally Posted by zenpunk 

Interesting. I don't have a media-go folder on mine. Just drop everything in the Music folder and had no issues 

 You won't have a Media Go folder on your Z unless you have MediaGo installed on your PC. That folder is put there and in most other audio file storage devices so that (my guess anyway) it knows where to check for new audio/video/picture files you may have added since the last time it ran. Most of the programs like MGo do that. There are preference settings (in Manage Library, perhaps) in such programs to cut down on such behavior. I find it irritating that MGo and others start grabbing files out of any memory card or thumb drive I have plugged in whenever I start such programs. (Software engineers-!). 

Drag and drop into the Music folder if MP3 or WMA. If you use X-App, it will put the OMG/OMA into OMGAUDIO on its own. MGo will use MUSIC on its own. I believe everything goes into music except OMG/OMA.  I just let MGo & XApp load the US Z and the Japanese Z (respectively) automatically these days. More specific details might be found in earlier posts. I don't bother with experiments much these days.

Hey,

 Did you have any issues with your playlists in media go showing up on your device. I created the playlist within media go and then I put them onto the walkman. They all seemed to be syncing up fine. I checked the device in explorer to and the playlists are in the playlist folder. After I disconnect however when I go to the playlist section in the walkman there is only the sample playlist that came with the walkman. Am I doing something wrong? Please any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Originally Posted by The Walrus 

I did it! And it was so easy I can't believe. Media Go places the playlists in the PLAYLIST folder in .pla format. All you have to do is go there and change the file extension from .pla to .m3u8 You don't even have to modify the file. Cool :-)))

Walrus you are a genius. I spent all day trying to work out how to do this. I am very impressed with the sound quality on my walkman NW-Z1070 I was crying inside when I could'nt work this playlist issue out.

 Thank You.