

I've built the file structure completely how I want it and it works very well for me. I have Audiobooks and BBC radio shows so it can be a bit tricky but all are easily corrected, unlike in iTunes. It uses Gracenote to fulfill the details when ripping and has a charming obsession with anything under a directory on your PC called ' Music' coupled with, bizarrely, language learning tapes. Unlike iTunes, you can tame it to do what you want. The Sony Music Centre Software is actually very good. I also got a 256gb card for it which now confines my much loved ipods to 'in car' duties and playing the audiobooks I bought on itunes Apple hasn't lost (so far).

External buttons are excellent and to me prove that Apple and others are daft to exclude them. I've got a nice Inorlo cover for it (not easy as I live in the Canaries which is an Amazon delivery dead spot) and a pair of MEE IEMs. Control is better than iPod as it has buttons.Īnything that could be better? Their proprietary software is quite good but seems to be of a totally different build to the device and I think this is where I came in. Then there's the quality, functionality, size and control. This is across 128g and I intend to create a library of all other files on other micro SD's. I dictate the folders and can enter each one at my choosing. I now control directories and how they are displayed. When I want to put my radio plays and recordings from CD onto this device, I can and put them where I want. It talks to grown-ups who know their way around a computer and doesn't rely upon a proprietary application for every transaction. iTunes has a problem.Įnter the device that is better, the Sony NW-A45, or A40 series. I loved my Apple products when I got them Classic (x2), Micro, Touch, iPad and iPad 'something else' but what let them down was the software interface.
