topic Re: List of Suggestions in PCs & Accessories

List of Suggestions

RubenBCN — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:02:05 GMT

Maybe we can group a list of suggestions we think could be an improvement for future firmwares or accessories. Someone could be reading on the other side?

My list would be:

- Add a USB cable with the Vaio pocket (avoiding to carry the base with you) This also helps to the Hard Disk functionality.
- More edition options (edit titles, change order of songs in a group, track number order, etc...)
- Mosaic photo search similar to the by album cover searching)
- Delete a song from the Vaio pocket.
- Case that can be placed in the trousers belt, for example.
- Read Avi / mpg (I dunno if this is possible in any way)
- A FM radio... could be external, in the headphones, like some MP3 players have.
- There is no way i can display the lirycs. Does someone can?
- Titles or names for the Photo Folders.
- Possibility to add the album cover to an existing album in the Vaio pocket (not always from the Sonic Stage).
- We have a clock. Why not an alarm? Let's wake up with a Vaio spirit (jesssus....)
- Skin Editor.

D'you have any others?

Re: List of Suggestions

RubenBCN — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:03:22 GMT

Argh! I forgot an important one!

- More Playing Lists, with titles, or maybe play M3U files?

Re: List of Suggestions

@4967457401015621 — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:38:19 GMT

they beat you to one of them - look under clock settings (under settings, natch) and you'll find a power on timer and a sleep timer... now if only it was repetitive, so you didn't have to reprogram the time, but now i'm getting greedy...

Re: List of Suggestions

RubenBCN — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:26:08 GMT

You are right. I didn't think about that.
Yesterday, I thought about a new feature:

When you edit a Favourites List, you can move the songs and change the order... just 1 position. So, if you want to move it in a large list, it takes like hours!

Rbn.-

Re: List of Suggestions

majete — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:23:20 GMT

Very good idea!!

Other important things:

- To can copy MP3 files from our VP to the computer
- To can do ZOOM in the gallery of images
- Soft case for belt IRL? Where is it?! Please pleaseee come to me
- Lyrics for songs... ejem... ejem... "quemeloexpliquen" jajajaja

And same as Ruben says (+1)

- Add a USB cable with the Vaio pocket (avoiding to carry the base with you).
- Mosaic photo search similar to the by album cover searching)
- Case that can be placed in the trousers belt, for example.
- Read Avi / mpg (I dunno if this is possible in any way)
- Titles or names for the Photo Folders.

Re: List of Suggestions

Chris384 — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 13:55:39 GMT

one thing i think should be re worked:

on my vaio at the moment i have 1 song by ash, from a compilation album i bought, but when i go into ash's menu in the artist menu, it says that i have 21 songs by ash, it just groups all the songs on the compilation album as ash songs, even though they are by different artists.

this doesnt affect play back or anything its just abit annoying when looking for just one song.

if you don't understand what i have said, try putting a compilation album on your vaio and then see for your self.

Re: List of Suggestions

FictionEdge — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:50 GMT

I'm having some problems with the ID3 tags in some songs.
So here goes some sujestions about it:

1 - Import the lyrics from the MP3 to ATRAC when converting and allow the use of existing lyrics in MP3 on the device.

2 - Create an "on the road" adaptor to substitute the craddle. Thouth the craddle ain't big, it would be better to have something more portable when you want to use the device as a hard disk in some other PC or to connect a camera a transfer the images

3 - How about have some cool screen savers? And a screen saver editor? Allow the same use as with skins. It would look really cool.

4 - Protective skins. I find the available ones for iPOD really cool and handy. Could you make some for the VP too?

Re: List of Suggestions

MadarbWoT — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:00:29 GMT

look fiction edge no offense or anything but sony doesnt look in this forum and probably will never see these expectations...

even so, why would the company care that much when the only accessory there is for the vp is a carry case?
you get my point?
i know its a pesimistic point of view but its more realistic this way if you think about it:smileywink:

Re: List of Suggestions

FictionEdge — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:18:24 GMT

Why wouldn't they look at it? It is in their site anyway... besides it doesn't pay to try :smileygrin:
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think if Sony is smart enouth they are watching all we say here regarding their products. Hei! We're the guys that bouth their products, right?

Re: List of Suggestions

MadarbWoT — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:58:40 GMT

i understand your thoughts but there have been some posts about this topic before and someone had emailed sony which said this forum is not watched by the company people,which agrees to the fact that the forum is very "free"...

they should be watching it if you want my opinion but they dont.
maybe emailing them will be better in your case but again it will lead nowhere!

Re: List of Suggestions

hldomster — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:35:22 GMT

Then someone should email all of our ideas to them.

At the end of the day the VP has a long way to go before its an ipod or better. The only reason I bought the VP is because it is the most expensive SONY hard disc player, and I have a sonyy vaio, so it is compatible with sonicstage. In all actual fact, the HD3 walkman is smaller, lighter, easier to use and has more battery life (although it is only available with 20GB). Sony really need to do alot of work with the VP. The next model should have a built in 1.0+ megapixel camera, and should have way more battery life. Games would be a fun firmwareupdate too.

Re: List of Suggestions

@4967457401015621 — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:03:19 GMT

I think half the problem is that no one can agree on exactly what the VP should be - hldomster suggests it should have a camera built in, personally I disagree - I have a digital camera, a flim SLR camera and a phone with a camera, so why would I need my mp3 player to have a camera as well? That's just my personal view, I think my VP is great once it's in my pocket and playing music, which is ultimately what it is designed for. The improvements I would like to see all revolve around ease of use - for example i'd like to see proper playlist integration, as I'm fed up of creating a playlist on my VP and another on my computer, and not being able to transfer either properly (I am aware that you can transfer m3u files using sonic stage, but this is a problem when I have the same track in 4 or 5 playlists and end up with that track listed 5 or 6 times on the album, so I can't listen to the album properly). I don't have a problem with the battery life, I've been using it when playing along to my drums (here a little extra volume would be good - I'm using my ipod for this now purely because it has slightly more volume, but i think there is a limit imposed by the EU) and it was sat in my room for a few days and when turned on it showed about 80% battery remaining - apparently the key is to disconnect the earphones when not in use, hardly a major inconvenience. I very rarely use the picture storage/viewing facilities - but I do use it as a portable hard drive, so a cable rather than a dock would be useful. However, many people on here I know want to use their VPs as rather more than just an mp3 player (mp3s being another essential area for improvement in my opinion), which is fair enough but I think slightly unrealistic, as I think it has essentially been designed as an audio player with a colour screen. Just my thoughts!

Re: List of Suggestions

FictionEdge — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:57:13 GMT

I agree. They should work more on the hardware and remove bugs/add feactures to the player himself. I had a ipod before I bouth the VP, I'm glad I changed, Vaio is much better player. It has great small feactures feactures that you don't find in iPOD.

iPod had all the Calendar/Contacts/Games stuff... witch is worthless, I never used them. For the Calendar and Contacts I have bouth my phone (nokia 3660) and my pda, for the games I have a GBA. Multifuntional items become bad examples of all they want to do. Vaio has an extra feacture that is just F a n t a s t i c , and you can't find in iPOD, teh hability to transfer directly photos from a camera, store them a see them.
If you go on vacation either you have a laptop and carry it aroun(naaa don't think so) or you buy half a dozen SD cards
But if you have Vaio, ... let's just say 40Gb or even 20Gb are more then enouth to hold all the photos you can take

About adding a camera.... I'm not buying some more expensive mp3 player just because it has a 1 Megapixel camera inside

cheers

Re: List of Suggestions

kee-lo_ — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:08:51 GMT

I'd lile to see the VP get video, and some games too.
I'd also like to see decent software to upload to the VP and more accessories.

Re: List of Suggestions

MadMattUK — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:42:14 GMT

The main updates i want are as follows...

- Photo viewing capability like that of the Jacket Viewer ie lots of small thumbnails visible at one time

-Sensible photo folder names rather than User_01 etc etc. I have 39 photo folders and i can never remeber where the hell ive put the dam things.

-Improved music library editing. In sonic stage everything on the pocket player is treated as groups... You can't view the albums etc which might happen to have different group names etc.

-Skins as the silly firmware update stated it would incorporate GRRrrrr

Those are the main ones. It would be truely awesome if the player could incorporate video playback but it seems like a longshot. Where did this rumour spawn from anyway, who started it... was it SONY themselves? More info on this would be nice. It would amazing to have that kind of funcionality.

Also when do you guys reckon the next firmware update will be ? Im getting impatient!!:smileycry:

Re: List of Suggestions

hldomster — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:09:46 GMT

The whole purpose of VAIO is to intergrate all forms of media (i've been reading this on sony's website). It is for this reason why the should make a vaio pocket as multifunctional as possible. At the end of ther day the title implies that it is a handheld vaio, and the only other vaio i have is my laptop (although they do tvs now). So it should be trying to be a mini version of my computer. Obviously im not looking for a PDA, but by making it multifunctional it is doing what it says on the tin: VAIO POCKET. What I noticed about my VP is that I was bored with it after a week.

Re: List of Suggestions

MadarbWoT — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 14:32:34 GMT

I agree with MadMattUK about all that he said and i am very impatient about the new firmware update...id really like native mp3 support so that i dont have to copy-paste all my music and transfer it with sonicstage too,just because the vp doesnt recognize mp3 files!
some new skins would be great too!
plus a few more accessories could prove a very successful move both for sony and the vp users:smileywink:

i propose that someone gets all the demands in this topic and shapes them into a nice petition like the one created before so that sony can now the customers expectations and work on the new firmware!

anyone with free time around here able and willing to do that?

Re: List of Suggestions

MadMattUK — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:29:04 GMT

What I noticed about my VP is that I was bored with it after a week.

at the end of the day the thing is a Pocket Music player. If you find it boring maybe this reflects your current music collection.

Re: List of Suggestions

hldomster — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:27:02 GMT

My music collection is very eclectic, and there was no need to get bitchy. What I meant was for something costing £330 you'd expect it to be a bit special, especially from sony

Re: List of Suggestions

MadMattUK — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:27:57 GMT

My music collection is very eclectic, and there was no need to get bitchy. What I meant was for something costing £330 you'd expect it to be a bit special, especially from sony

bitchy?:smileyconfused:

all i was saying that if an mp3 player bores someone... its usually coz their music bores them.

If a walkman CD Player is boring... its coz the CD inside is.