So I went out today and bough one of these: A Sony NWZ-S639F



So far so good. It's pretty much the same as the last Walkman I had. (An NWZ-A818) I have however noticed a few differences. It has a much nicer screen with far better contrast. It's a lot louder and sounds a little nicer as well. It's lighter and it has an FM radio too. The biggest new feature though is the SenseMe channels.

Basically what happens it the player will analyze all the songs in the music library and assign each one to 1 of 11 channels (I can't remember what they are but I will post them when it's finished analyzing.) It creates an on-the-go play list based on the mood of the song. It's been analyzing for around 30 minutes now and it's done 400 of my 2040 songs. From what I've read it usually gets the mood right with a few mistakes, which can't be manually corrected. It had better be worth it...

I'll post results back when it's done.