Kaotic 寫:people outside of Japan want freely drag-n-drop their music files and chose their preferred music management software. thus SonicStage can't co-exist with the drag-n-drop method of putting music files to their DAPs. Because of that, it removes atrac encoding methods for any DAPs sold outside of Japan.
Inside of Japan, atrac music format still have firm hold on the millions of people who still uses MD/Hi-MD. The only way to encode atrac, a DAP must rely on Sonicstage to encode/manage their music files. Because Sonicstage is required to encode atrac, therefore, people in Japan loses the ability to drag-n-drop their music files to Sony's own DAP.
so if you want the nice features in the Japanese version of Sony's DAP and atrac music encoding, you are willing to lose the ability to drag-n-drop and wants Sonicstage to manage your music library. by all means, go for Japanese version of Sony's DAP.
唉...$ony不想做就這樣說,都同樣是CD轉成檔案而已,DnD反而比較好推自家格式...
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