User Reviews and Votes for SonicStage

Pros: it is very to use and can be used to burn music cd's

Cons: you can only buy the music from sony, but can convert to mp3 to burn cd's only

Period used: Sept. 2004 - present

Other products used: windows media player, winamp, real media player

Submitted by Joshua on 20-Nov-2004 05:02:08

Summary: Sony's Digital Audio Jukebox

Details: This software is the player that's used to play OpenMG (ATRAC3 / ATRAC3plus) music files used in all Sony Digital Portable Audio players

Pros: Great sound quality, high compression

Cons: Copy protection

Period used: October 2004 to Now

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media Player

Submitted by Victol on 05-Dec-2004 02:44:35

Details: my girlfriend uses this player from Sony, I want her to be able to use FoxyTunes, too o:-)

Submitted by Paul Ivanov on 10-Dec-2004 03:17:15

Details: my girlfriend uses this player from Sony, I want her to be able to use FoxyTunes, too o:-)

Submitted by Paul Ivanov on 10-Dec-2004 03:17:15

Summary: Please make it compatible

Details: This seems like a really cool extension for the browser but the player that I use isnt't on the list of players or contrlable through the generic player options.

Submitted by Dwane on 03-Feb-2005 12:14:39

Submitted by Ted on 08-Apr-2005 15:57:34

Summary: Sony SonicStage

Details: Because of NetMD Support

Pros: NetMD

Cons: Just Sony Devices, no native mp3

Submitted by Horst-Dieter on 19-Apr-2005 16:43:08

Pros: no loss of quality with compressed files

Cons: Not for sharing music with friends, no burning audio cds unless you have a VAIO

Period used: 2003-2005

Other products used: Winamp, Windows Media, XMMS, RealPlayer

Submitted by Joe on 24-Apr-2005 20:29:03

Submitted by Chris Avery on 26-Apr-2005 11:28:05

Summary: It's OK

Submitted by Chris Wyatt on 02-May-2005 10:17:39

Pros: Supports Minidisc players and other Sony players

Cons: MP3s have to be converted to ATRAC3 before they are sent to some players (e.g. Minidisc), also copyright restrictions and licensing can be problematic

Submitted by Chris Wyatt on 02-May-2005 10:17:39

Summary: A brilliant media player from Sony

Pros: Support for creation and playing of Atrac3 music files - Atrac3 has both a better sound quality than MP3 and takes up less space!

Submitted by Harry on 14-May-2005 12:50:15

Summary: Fantasticaly simple interface, easy to use, & organise your songs.

Details: Info Here; http://www.vaio.net/sonyvaio659.html

Pros: Non-complicatd interface

Cons: Not Many Features

Period used: 18 Months

Other products used: WinAmp, Media Player, Real Player, itunes

Submitted by Nic on 18-May-2005 05:59:40

Summary: sonicstage is by far the best. (IT'S MADE BY SONY ;) )

Details: DOWNLOAD HERE; http://www.sonydigital-link.com/dna/sonicstage/ss31.asp?l=en You won't regret it.

Pros: With Atrac3, you can save twice as many songs to your pc as mp3's

Cons: N/A

Period used: 1yr

Other products used: Most others

Submitted by Bagejoby on 18-May-2005 06:11:11

Submitted by Milosz Matusiak on 30-May-2005 09:27:46

Submitted by Martin on 17-Jul-2005 18:43:00

Submitted by Christopher Ellis on 06-Aug-2005 07:02:41

Summary: proprietary music management for sony mp3 players

Details: it's free. similar feature set to iTunes. marginally better sound than iTunes. comparitively poor playlist management

Pros: good sound,works with my sony NW-E407

Cons: slow,uses system resources++

Other products used: iTunes, WMP9/10

Submitted by norton on 09-Aug-2005 07:39:48

Summary: Sony's Music Platform

Details: Uses new audio encoding to make songs smaller. Used to fit more music on Sony devices and cds. http://sonicstage.connect.com/SonicStageInstaller.exe

Pros: Atrac3Plus Audio Encoding

Cons: Not yet supported by FoxyTunes

Period used: 3+ Months

Other products used: Itunes, WMP, Winamp, MusicMatch, Real

Submitted by Jason on 09-Sep-2005 11:25:45

Submitted by Anonymous on 29-Aug-2005 20:51:43

Details: It's the player I've all my music on, so I'd be very happy if yu made this compatible.. I cannot play my music on any other player

Submitted by Tomas Foley on 30-Nov-2005 15:03:43

Details: A SONY propreitary software, with nice features such as album covers, lyrics and more. Operates effeciently even with huge music libraries.

Pros: Album covers

Cons: SONY software, I don't believe availble to all

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: MM, WMP, WinAmp, Sonique, many others.

Submitted by Daren on 04-Dec-2005 11:25:40

Submitted by Sand on 06-Dec-2005 21:26:25

Submitted by will on 11-Dec-2005 02:19:04

Details: I would love to see SonicStage added to the lineup for FoxyTunes. I love the FoxyTunes and would greatly enjoy the opportunity to use SonicStage and all the songs I have saved there. It would be great if there was some way SonicStage was added to the program if possible.

Submitted by Erik Southerland on 11-Dec-2005 15:21:22

Submitted by Jeremy Sargeant on 13-Jan-2006 19:25:46

Submitted by Tamara on 15-Jan-2006 13:53:08

Submitted by steve kohagen on 25-Jan-2006 12:04:02

Pros: good interface

Cons: convert all files to play

Other products used: windows media, music match

Submitted by JOsh on 25-Jan-2006 15:21:09

Pros: good interface

Cons: convert all files to play

Other products used: windows media, music match

Submitted by JOsh on 25-Jan-2006 15:21:09

Summary: This is the software that comes stock with all Sony mp3 players

Details: This program comes stock with all Sony mp3 players. It's got great playlist control.

Submitted by M Martin on 01-Feb-2006 05:37:18

Details: need for use with hi-md player, would be good if foxytunes supported it

Pros: good interface

Period used: since 2004

Other products used: winamp, windows media, real

Submitted by Andy on 03-Feb-2006 07:52:09

Summary: It is the main player used by people with sony products

Pros: Great quality, easy to use

Cons: no mp3 converter

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: ituens, windows media player,

Submitted by artem on 05-Feb-2006 08:38:58

Pros: Has great dynamic playlists

Submitted by M Martin on 01-Feb-2006 05:37:18

Details: Great looks, simple to use, awesome dynamic playlists and good track/albumn manipulation

Submitted by x on 07-Feb-2006 14:16:14

Summary: For those of us PSP's

Details: Some of us who want to convert music to smaller psp-capable formats use SonicStage. It's a real shame that foxy doesn't pick it up. This normally wouldn't be a problem but my WMP playback on mp3's is crap and I don't know why so this leaves me with SonicStage as my only player.

Pros: atrac and atrac3 and atrac3+ compatibility, syncing, use with Sony PSP

Cons: not widestream

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: WMP, qt, real, musicmatch

Submitted by Logan on 15-Feb-2006 17:22:39

Details: like the program especially the variety of file formats that it plays

Period used: uh...4 yrs not all this version

Other products used: winamp, win media player, a few others

Submitted by Zack Nelson on 23-Feb-2006 12:05:06

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Submitted by x on 08-Mar-2006 12:58:19

Submitted by x on 08-Mar-2006 12:59:05

Submitted by zagor on 12-Mar-2006 12:34:18

Summary: The best media player there is

Details: So much better than itunes and it's easier to use to.

Pros: Interface

Cons: Not supported by FoxyTunes, wm player does not recognise the atrac format (although it will still play these files)

Period used: 8 months

Other products used: wm player, WinMX, itunes, QuickTime

Submitted by letsgetiton on 13-Mar-2006 01:28:15

Submitted by Yannick Fortier on 15-Mar-2006 21:52:50

Other products used: realplayer, winamp, windows media player, bsplayer, itunes, media player classic, vlc media player

Submitted by kewl on 28-Mar-2006 17:28:41

Pros: very nice interface, easy to use and burn cds or move files to net md...

Cons: not supported by foxytunes

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: realplayer, winamp, windows media player, bsplayer, itunes, media player classic, vlc media player

Submitted by kewl on 28-Mar-2006 17:28:41

Summary: High compression, good audio quality, poor interface

Pros: excellent compression, very good sound quality

Cons: poor interface

Period used: 2005-2006

Other products used: itunes, windows media, realrhapsody

Submitted by Brad Steinwachs on 31-Mar-2006 05:43:01

Submitted by Kevin Ayres on 01-Apr-2006 04:04:09

Summary: I've switched over to Sonicstage

Details: Since I got my PSP, I've switched over to Sonicstage as my main music player (the programs transfers files over easily to the system). I've also switched over to ATRAC as my main music format. It would be nice to see foxytunes support Sonicstage sometime in the future. Love the extension though.

Pros: program is much more stable, no more copy protection

Cons: none that I've seen

Period used: Jan 06-Present

Other products used: None

Submitted by Tyler Treat on 01-Apr-2006 22:01:09

Submitted by Dustin Kim on 04-Apr-2006 14:09:13

Summary: Best ever!

Details: A built in music store. Sync with many devices. Import cds with a ton of formats! It is amazing!

Pros: Everything

Cons: Nothing I can think of.

Period used: 1 year.

Other products used: windows media player, apollo, itunes, musicmatch jukebox.

Submitted by Evan on 12-Apr-2006 15:31:48

Summary: i love this program

Details: it may be that i'm a sony whore but i dig this program.

Pros: easy to use

Cons: nothing really

Period used: a year

Other products used: media player, winamp

Submitted by rich greenhagen on 15-Apr-2006 05:30:23

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Summary: Wouldn't use if my NW-HD5 worked with anything else

Details: The only reason I use SonicStage is that my NW-HD5 Mp3 player will only work with Sonicstage. It stalls, it's slow, it uses beastly amounts of RAM, but the sound quality is tremendous (and it is reasonably nice looking) so I can put up with it long enough to transfer the files to my mp3 player. It only plays WAV, MP3, ATRAC and WMA.

Pros: Excellent audio quality, necessary for (equally excellent) Sony mp3 players

Cons: Atrocious program

Period used: Over 3 years (used it with my minidisc before I got the NW-HD5)

Other products used: WMP, iTunes, RealPlayer, JetAudio, dbPowerAMP, Winamp, Quicktime, Media Player Classic, VLC

Submitted by David Russell on 16-Apr-2006 09:46:32

Summary: A great player with a cool interface

Details: This player has a very good system for linking to all Sony based MP3 or atrac players, including the PSP. Despite the lack of iPod support, SonicStage more than makes up for this with the small file sizes and good quality of the atrac files.

Pros: Best player for use with PSP

Cons: Fairly high memory usage

Period used: 6 months

Other products used: Songbirdsnest, WMP, Winamp, iTunes

Submitted by Matt Dendura on 17-Apr-2006 04:18:26

Submitted by robert on 17-Apr-2006 04:47:51

Submitted by Thomas Wiemeyer on 21-Apr-2006 08:27:39

Summary: Great media player, can convert any song into atrac3plus, and keeps songs in good quality.

Details: Can turn any mp3 into atrac3plus, and convert a song into any kps, stylish, and user friendly controls.

Pros: Good controls, can convert music into atrac3

Cons: Slow startup

Submitted by Xantex on 26-Apr-2006 12:01:42

Summary: nice looking

Details: a little slow when you open the program but it is well-desinged. i like it

Submitted by stephen on 08-May-2006 18:25:10

Submitted by Simon Rolfs on 09-May-2006 06:13:27

Submitted by Anonymous on 29-Aug-2005 20:51:43

Submitted by Max on 15-May-2006 11:31:54

Summary: Great for HI-MD users

Submitted by Willemwiebe on 15-May-2006 16:35:22

Submitted by Matt on 18-May-2006 05:36:47

Submitted by Andras on 21-May-2006 20:11:32

Submitted by The Reaper on 25-May-2006 15:42:55

Submitted by gh on 03-Jun-2006 11:08:50

Details: Great player, will mix tunes for recording many diffrent ways. Standard player for "Sony".

Period used: Three years +

Other products used: Windows/iTunes/WinAmp...

Submitted by D. Shryock on 06-Jun-2006 13:28:58

Submitted by a on 19-Jun-2006 11:59:03

Summary: Very Good media player that just gets better and better

Pros: Does everything better than anything else

Cons: Atrac format files cannot be incuded in Windows media player library

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: Window media player, win amp

Submitted by letsgetiton on 13-Mar-2006 01:28:15

Submitted by stephen on 08-May-2006 18:25:10

Period used: one year

Submitted by return on 10-Jul-2006 05:10:36

Summary: a very good player that works with atrac

Pros: works with atrac3 and atrac3plus

Cons: --

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: iTunes, Windows media player 11, foobar2000

Submitted by --- on 02-Dec-2005 10:12:20

Submitted by Daniel on 08-Aug-2006 06:01:37

Details: How can I get my foxytunes to play SonicStage?

Submitted by Bruce Stanley on 13-Aug-2006 19:27:40

Pros: Atrac3plus format, great for psp, bean and other sony mp3 players.

Cons: have you to have a problem with it

Other products used: Itunes and Windows Media Player

Submitted by Diesel_Mr2 on 17-Aug-2006 13:43:42

Summary: Potentially Great, but Handcuffed

Details: Sonicstage, when it works is quite good. It has some innovative features and, even though it can be frustrating, ATRAC3plus does sound really good, especially at the low and high extremes. Still - it's unstable, inexplicably ruins files, clunky and definitely not as user-friendly as iTunes or even Windows Media Player. Why not hire some decent programmers? Or is Sony short on money>

Pros: Amazing sound quality, some cool features.

Cons: Unstable, slooooow and not as user-friendly as others.

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: WMP10, iTunes, Winamp

Submitted by Nav on 23-Aug-2006 14:09:51

Submitted by Martin on 07-Sep-2006 11:58:16

Summary: A really good easy to use player.

Pros: Very user friendly.

Cons: No EQ controls.

Submitted by Damien on 08-Sep-2006 12:07:23

Submitted by Anh on 09-Sep-2006 08:13:25

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: WinAmp, WMP, iTunes, Irfanview

Submitted by Hector Sebastian Rodriguez Ramirez on 22-Sep-2006 09:42:34

Summary: Good Simple to use. Great Audio, Cool Look

Details: Solid reliable piece of music player software. the interface is different but simple to use. the options are there, online store (connect) if you want to buy music, or import it from cd or file. the main library holds all music info the player knows. and transfer can make cd's (mp3 or atrac3plus), or import it to your psp or sonywalkman player (hdd or flash versions). it's stable, if a little processer heavey, but it does have a mini mode. lots of options to make it more your player.

Pros: Works with PSP, Aw3000 for song transfers

Cons: Playing all songs by a artist can be awkward

Period used: For years

Other products used: Windows Media Player

Submitted by Simon Revell on 22-Sep-2006 10:54:26

Submitted by Rubere Raffoul on 24-Sep-2006 23:18:39

Submitted by jason on 29-Sep-2006 10:23:08

Submitted by alex on 01-Oct-2006 19:32:42

Summary: forced into using it for mp3 player

Details: isn't too bad once you get used to it, the best feature being the artist link.

Pros: artist link

Cons: sony made it

Period used: 3/4 months

Other products used: windows media player - still use that too

Submitted by Ads on 04-Oct-2006 11:46:29

Submitted by Anonymous on 18-Aug-2004 10:17:15

Submitted by CHOMAT on 08-Oct-2006 08:43:54

Submitted by Andrew Getz on 09-Oct-2006 08:22:59

Summary: its good put it

Details: its good and really easy to use

Pros: just add it

Cons: no cons :)

Submitted by sonic stage on 13-Oct-2006 15:44:25

Pros: Good sound quality

Cons: Poor user interface & no connectivity with other manufacturers

Period used: 6 mths

Submitted by Mark Hamblin on 15-Oct-2006 13:40:25

Submitted by Sealy on 22-Oct-2006 20:45:15

Pros: excellent library, sleek interface.

Cons: can use alot of RAM at times, slow at tagging\re-tagging multiple music files.

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: XMPlay, Winamp, Windows Media player

Submitted by Matthew Alexander on 24-Oct-2006 13:36:32

Summary: Great Player, Little Support

Details: Sonicstage has had a bad rap over the years, but its slowly getting better. And with an online music store connected to it as well it should be at the top of the list for a support feature like this.

Pros: Excellnet sound quality, and music options

Cons: Not as intuitive as itunes.

Period used: For over a year

Other products used: Napster, itunes, Realplayer, Musicmatch

Submitted by Andi Nakasone on 24-Oct-2006 16:00:40

Submitted by ritchard foster on 24-Oct-2006 17:22:39

Other products used: WinAMP, WMP, iTunes

Submitted by Vince Amoroso on 26-Oct-2006 14:02:42

Submitted by Charles Dawkins on 28-Oct-2006 07:47:32

Submitted by Daryl Voth on 28-Oct-2006 18:38:53

Submitted by FRank Blanton on 29-Oct-2006 00:42:14

Submitted by kaydee on 30-Oct-2006 19:30:46

Submitted by Max on 15-May-2006 11:31:54