Sony Walkman Bluetooth 8GB MP3/DVD Player, Red, NWE394/R

I purchased this Sony Walkman NWE 394 in November 2016 for myself and also purchased 2 others as gifts. It is easy to use and extremely lightweight! The music sound is beautiful with the included ear buds. The only drawback is that I wish it had Bluetooth in order to use it with wireless in-ear headphones. All you have to do is download the app to your computer and once you open the APP it automatically finds all of your music, videos, photos on your computer and loads them to the APP. Once loaded to the APP select All to add them to the Walkman. Easy as pie. Music and videos sound wonderful. Also has an FM Radio included if you want to listen to a radio station.

I purchased the Sony Walkman many years ago when they first came out and have just purchased another one - my original still works tho but I need another one for my car. They are the best products I have ever owned along this line. We live in the country and my Walkman picks up all the radio stations I want to listen to. Also, it's really easy to download my music onto. Thanks Sony for continuing to make this product without changing the commands - it's very familiar and I don't have to learn new commands, etc. to use it.

It's small and compact. This is my third Sony Walkman and they've certainly downgraded the materials. It's made of plastic, not metal, so it's much lighter, but there's no clock feature which is useful for running outside and checking your time, etc. Also the radio settings are not user-friendly. Once the stations are set, it's a challenge to go from one station to the next without exiting the radio option. So it's okay but not as easy to use as the previous versions.

Sony requires the creation of playlists on its own Music Center. I couldn't simply transfer my existing from Windows Media Player. Wish the Mp3 and Windows Media Player were compatible.

I purchased this model last week after my much older model - the NWZ-E354 took a bad fall (one of many over the past ten years) that it didn't wake up from. Much to my dismay this newer model does not meet, let alone exceed any facet of the old one which I think runs counter to the point of making a newer model. The NW-E394 is inferior to the older E354 in not only operation, UI, and of course most importantly the audio quality, but the FM tuner is also seems to be weaker. The cherry on the cake is the surprisingly cheap build of the device body itself. I'm disappointed in Sony. If they were unwillingly to spend money on new affordable mp3 players/FM tuners then why not just continue producing the older, better models with a few tweaks (larger storage, updated inputs)? To be honest I would have rather purchased a used old NWZ E-354, scratches and all.

This is a very decent product and easy use... if you have windows. It's such a pain to try and download my songs from a Mac because Sony doesn't take iTunes or Apple Music. Sure you can download songs from the Mac but you need a converter which costs more money and while you can download songs from youtube onto a MP3 but they'll all download individually and that takes such a long time to do song by song and isn't worth it. There probably is a way you can download iTunes onto this but is it worth it? Not for me it isn't.

I've been using Sony products almost exclusively for over 25 years - including a dozen of these MP3 players, but the more recent ones are simply so much cheaper feeling, have poor screen resolution. Album art rarely works and playlists don't work either although they worked perfectly in the past. What has happened to Sony quality? Really sad...

I bought one about 2 years ago and it wasn't keeping its charge and it finally died without any reason and I had a warranty so i returned it and got the exact same model about 6 months ago and it worked pretty well and kept its charge I was happy. but yesterday it died again without any reason... They never saw water and never fell on the ground...

I bought this primarily to listen to podcasts and it's essentially unusable for that. From stuff online, I knew I'd have to do some stuff manually (make a podcast folder, number the episodes to keep them in order). What I didn't realize was that the device doesn't keep track of where you are in the episode and fast forwarding is extremely slow and tedious. So if your listening is interrupted it's painful to get to where you were. Fine for music and radio

My computer recognizes the Walkman and allowed me to add music but when I unplug the Walkman from the computer and I look for the music on the Walkman it just isn't there. I talked with two different CSR's from Sony and received case numbers but they could not figure out what is wrong because I tried all different ways with different adapters (thought maybe wasn't communicating properly) but still nothing. I even tried with my friend's computer and still no success. I don't want to have to return this but I have to give up since even the CSR's seem to be out of troubleshooting questions. :(