CONNECT Player is a media player application, developed by Sony Connect

Sony Connect

The CONNECT Music Store was Sony's music store built within the SonicStage music management application for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers. It was one of the world’s largest online music download stores with over 2.5 million tracks to preview and purchase, with over 10,000 new songs...

, a division of Sony Corporation of America

Sony Corporation of America

Sony Corporation of America , based in New York, is the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. It is the umbrella company under which all Sony companies operate in the United States....

 in 2005. It was released for European and Japanese market in November 2005 to be used with Sony's new HDD digital music players - the NW-A Walkman Series.

In January 2006, Sony Europe recommended users to change to SonicStage

SonicStage

SonicStage is the name for Sony software that is used for managing portable devices when they are plugged into a computer running Microsoft Windows. It comprises a music player and library manager, similar to iTunes, Windows Media Player and RealPlayer. It is used to manage the library of ATRAC...

(Sony's earlier media player) pending potential further updates to the CONNECT Player software due to thousands of reports regarding its many problems. http://support.sony-europe.com/DNA/Hotnews/hotnews.asp?l=en&f=ConSonhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0%2C%2C175-2002482%2C00.html

External links

• How Sony failed to Connect, again