Overview

What you can do with “Memory Stick Walkman”

Memory Stick Walkman is a portable “Memory Stick” player. You can easily transfer digital sound data from your computer to Memory Stick Walkman.

Two copyright protection technologies* “OpenMG” and “MagicGate” allow you to enjoy digital music, while maintaining the copyrights of its holders.

The OpenMG compliant software “OpenMG Jukebox,” which is supplied with your Memory Stick Walkman enables you to store digital music data on your computer’s hard drive, transfer it to the Memory Stick Walkman and record it on “MagicGate Memory Stick.”

EMD ServicesAudio CDs

Memory Stick

Walkman

WAV, MP3 files

USB connection

Hard drive of

 

your computer

 

(OpenMG Jukebox)

The supplied OpenMG Jukebox software allows you to import digital sound data to the hard drive of your computer as follows:

downloads sound data provided by Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) services over digital networks such as the Internet

records audio CDs onto the hard drive of your computer (the imported tracks are compressed and encoded in ATRAC3 format)

encodes the existing MP3 and WAV format audio files to ATRAC3 and encrypts them in OpenMG format.

The OpenMG Jukebox encrypts sound data in OpenMG format and stores it on the hard drive of your computer to prevent unauthorized distribution.

*The copyright protection technology of Memory Stick Walkman conforms to the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) specifications.

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