Sony dumps ATRAC, Connect and SonicStage?

Have Sony have finally given up with SonicStage?

UPDATE 03–09–2007: Yep, SonicStage is history! See this press release from Sony NZ

I hope so as their music hardware is great but SonicStage, the software that connected it, was awful. Read their advice to “Connect” on-line store users on how save their content:

“Sony advises all its customers to burn purchased music to CD and re-rip them into MP3s to remove the DRM and enable long term future use.”

Yet another reason to not trust DRM controlled content.

TrustedReviews - Sony Dumps ATRAC & Connect, Adds WMA Walkmans
Sony Dumps ATRAC & Connect, Adds WMA Walkmans

TrustedReviews - Sony Dumps ATRAC & Connect, Adds WMA Walkmans
Sony Dumps ATRAC & Connect, Adds WMA Walkmans

Wired – Sony to Unplug Connect Music Service
Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats

Wired – Sony to Unplug Connect Music Service
Acknowledging its proprietary audio technology was a marketplace flop, Sony Corp. is shuttering its Connect digital music store and will open its portable media players to other formats

Tags:  SonicStage, Sony