Sony NW-A1000, 1200, 3000 Gets WMA Support

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=700' target='_blank'>http://www.atraclife.com/index.php?showtopic=700</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/3060000000055152.JPG" /><br /><br />Sony has done an about face and is now extending support for Microsoft's competing digital audio file format (WMA) in a recent ROM update for the NW-A1000/1200/3000 audio player. However, that doesn't mean the player now supports tracks downloaded from online music stores like MSN and Napster as well. So buyer beware on both counts.<br /><br />Perhaps Sony is slowly (so very slowly) conceding that consumers <b>do not want</b> ATRAC audio? Well, maybe not. But I can dream, can't I? :wink:

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

After the Sony rootkit fiasco, I'm boycotting as many Sony products as I can. As far as I'm concerned, this is a non-event to me. Buy non-Sony products!