Comments on: Sony X-Series NWZ-X1060 and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

By: Untitled

Untitled — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:48:20 +0000

Sony can be very frustrating. They always seem to be doing one step forward and one step backwards at the same time. They got rid of SonicStage and we all have to pay the price of losing gapless playing. They make their players Linux enabled (even if they don’t admit it) but remove on the fly playlists.

To me the hassle is too big to care about playlists, but perhaps you can try running WMP in wine rather than in a virtual machine, should at least be quicker.

By: atc

atc — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:31:01 +0000

Hi,

I was annoyed about the lack of dynamic playlists. Unfortunately it doesn’t get much better with ordinary playlists – you *have* to use Windows Media Player to create them, as it only supports some bizarre WMP-only playlist format.

Time to fire up that VM…

By: Untitled

Untitled — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:23:41 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for that post, it was what finally made me order the X walkman and I’m very happy with it. Previously had other Sony players but they all required Sonic Stage so it’s very liberating not having to use other people’s computers when I want to transfer music to my player.
What I wanted to know is whether you found a way to create playlists for the device? I’m slightly disappointed that Sony dropped their on-the-fly playlists creation. Oh well, you can’t have it all I guess…

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Thu, 28 May 2009 16:02:42 +0000

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