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Walkman logo. The Walkman E Series is a line of digital audio (DAP) and portable media (PMP) players, marketed by Sony as part of its Walkman range. E Series devices have been marketed since 2000, although in its current form since 2008 as entry-level, candybar styled players.
The software was created to replace Media Go and x-APPLICATION (Japanese: x-アプリ). Unlike those, Music Center for PC only focuses on audio and as a result it has had several features removed, [1] such as CD burning, or non-audio media functionalities like photo or video playback and transfer. [3]
Sony Walkman NW-A1000, one of the earliest Walkman players that played MP3 alongside the proprietary ATRAC format. Nearly all players [65] [failed verification] are compatible with the MP3 audio format, and many others support Windows Media Audio (WMA), Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and WAV.
Version 4.3 (called SonicStage CP, for Connect Player) adds Windows Vista compatibility (Vista 64-bit and Windows 7 64-bit are not officially supported but Sonicstage will run, although Sony did not provide 64-bit drivers for the hardware, they are available from third party sources). As of October 2008, this is the latest version of the ...
Sony claims the major advantage of ATRAC3 is its coding efficiency, which was tuned for portable DSP which provides less computing power and battery life. However, as ATRAC is a hybrid subband-MDCT codec that is algorithmically very similar to MP3, any advantage is probably exaggerated.
Media Go is a media player and media library application that runs on Microsoft Windows and was developed by Sony Entertainment Network.The software organizes and plays a wide variety of multimedia content including video, music, podcasts and photos, and can share them in a network as a DLNA server. [1]
OpenMG is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for managing and protecting digital music data on a personal computer. It was originally designed for audio files in ATRAC3 format; the compliant software, e.g. Sony SonicStage, is usually capable of transcoding MP3 and WAV files to OpenMG/ATRAC3.
In 2005, Sony released its second-generation Hi-MD devices offering native MP3 support. In 2005, Sony announced Hi-MD Photo. [4] The Sony MZ-DH10P Walkman was released to showcase the format with a 1.3 megapixel digital camera. In March 2006, Sony released the MZ-RH1 Hi-MD Walkman in Japan, which was later followed in other regions.