Great bass

I am listening to "You Can't Stop The Beat" on my new Sony MP3 player. I guess this is an initial review, but I created an inverse pyramid on the equaliser, using Sony's ClearBass technology. I am very impressed with the bass response. I'm getting a very loud bass, but without the distortion that you would get with any other MP3 players.

I have four gripes with the MP3 player so far:

1. There's a lanyard included (in the packing box, not the product box) but I can't seem to get the lanyard into the little hole on the player!

2. For some reason, some of my MP3s are coming onto the player as "Unknown Artist". Maybe the MP3 player only recognises older styles of ID3 tag.

3. I downloaded the covers of Hairspray and another album from Amazon.com and put them into the same directories as the albums, but the MP3 player hasn't automatically picked up on them. I might need to do something else, or (here's a possible explanation) it picks up the cover image from the actual tag.

4. The USB port on the MP3 player is completely non-standard, so you need to use the included cable.

Here's what I already love about the Sony MP3 player:

1. Drag 'n' Drop. Works out-of-the-box on Linux. You can't get much better than that.

2. The ClearBass makes a huge difference.

3. The reported playback time of 33 hours for music and 9 hours for video. That's hell impressive.

4. The interface and the visual effects in it are nice. I especially like the screensaver, which fades in and out every so often.

5. The thing comes on INSTANTLY if you've used it in the past 24 hours, and goes right back to the exact place you were (even in videos!)

Probably more later once I have had a good play with the player.