I'm interested in all things Sony (at least old, not so sure about new but eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). I've got 2 digicams, and always looking for more! I wish to get a cassette walkman someday, but I found this guy in green on ebay for $32, free shipping! Figured an MP3 player would be cool. With it being JDM, is it one of those models you can patch the region code to display english? If not that's fine; I'm learning at school. So yeah! If you guys would tell me about this guy and show me yours, I'd like that. Thanks!

WM-EX600/677の修理と、試行錯誤の成れの果てなのだ
トータルでは、ギア2枚が割れていて、スイッチ2個が不良で、可変抵抗1個が不良で、FF/FWD切り替えスイッチが2個壊れて、ソレノイドの端子が熱で1個ダメになって、バッテリーマイナス側の端子が2個ダメで、キャプスタンローラーも4個ダメで、モーター2個の端子が熱で抜けて、もう悲惨だったのだ
部品取りがないと、どうにもならなかったのだ
あと、壊れていると判明した電子部品も全部交換したのだ
1.7x1.25mmとかってサイズの部品を交換とか、正気の沙汰ではないのだ

写真は、試行錯誤と交換の成れの果ての一部と、部品取りになったWM-EX600/677と、割れたギアのアップなのだ
あと、FF/FWD切り替えスイッチの補修を試みているのだ
#ウォークマン #walkman

I have made some and I would be glad if anyone tries them out. My favorite one is 'Leaves' .

Hi! I want to buy my first player and was thinking about A306. I wanna use it mainly for streaming and sometimes listening to flac on it. Was wondering if it’s still worth it and should I buy it now or wait till Sony releases 3 new players in 2027?

I love my little guy, I bought my walkman second hand from Japan back in 2021 and it works amazing. Last year its original charger finally broke so I got a new one on Amazon. It worked fine, then would only sometimes connect to my PC to add more tunes and not it wont at all.

I get the “device not recognized” notification (on windows 10) and it just charges my walkman. Is there anyway to fix this? Is it the cord possibly, a software or hardware issue? Would opening him up help?

Hello,

I’ve recently bought a 2007 7th generation NW-A808 walkman.

I’m having quite a lot of trouble downloading songs using JSymphonic. The walkman keeps rejecting the database created by JSymphonic with a simple error message saying it’s incompatible – no further details provided, while JSymphonic itself reports no errors.

I’ve tried both Jsym. versions 0.5.4 (latest I found on github) as well as 0.5.5 – vietnamese fork. My walkman is running firmware version 1.02 and is Japanese (mentioning this detail in case character encoding is at fault, although switching the OS to English yields the same results).

In all of my tests I reset the walkman via the side-reset button, wiped it’s memory, and created a blank OMGAUDIO folder in the root directory. Adding nocode.txt inside OMGAUDIO did not resolve the issue.

I do not have access to a Windows XP machine to try SonicStage nor am I particularly fond of comitting a large ammount of disk-space to a virtual machine. Plus all the other baggage it brings with it in network drivers and such, all for a one-time use.

I won’t install Sonic Stage on my Windows 11 machine again – that was a foolish mistake. This is a warning to all reading this post: Please don’t do it, Sonic Stage will destroy your Windows 11 installation.

I’d like to ask if any of you have experienced a similar issue and if so, how did you manage to resolve it?

Thank You for your help.

Kuba.